Customer Reviews
An uncomfortable cauldron of worldbeats - By: Ben Farrell, 27 Aug 2004 
For a composer who has produced such timeless tracks (mainly those from his first album, Adiemus) Karl Jenkins seems to have let himself down a bit with his predecessing efforts.
The Eternal Knot has an Irish influence running throughout, but I find the often highly tedious vocals rarely blend with the Celtic sound. The styles of some tracks are also unoriginal, with a very blatant method of adding "Irishness" to the cauldron of sounds.
If the vocals were not sung by a choir of smurfs (the lead singer doesn't actually sing specific words; as Jenkins has previously admitted, they are made up sounds) I might actually be able to enjoy this album a lot more than I currently do.
The only songs worth a listen are Cu Chullain, King of The Sacred Grove & Ceridwen's Curse.
a fantastic cd - By: dirk.vandevelde1@pandora.be, 30 Sep 2000 
I was lucky to see the worldpremiere of adiemus 4 LIVE at the royal albert hallin London on sept 28.It was a great show & they played the whole new cd & also songs from the first 3 adiemus cd's. I am a big fan of them since their first cdin 95. This 4th cd has more variation on the instrumentation(accordion, guitar,uillean pipes, harp). It has also a more celtic feeling butin real adiemus style; Miriam Stockley sings the leadvocals like always & she does it fantastic; I would say: buy this record,you won't regret it.
More of the same... so no problem there then. - By: , 26 Sep 2000 As an artist releases more records the temptation to go offin a completely new direction must become overwhelming. Karl Jenkins has not done this. His latest album is an evolution rather than a revolution. There is nothing radically different here but it is done so well that the established Adiemus audience will be happy while new comers will find it accessible. One risk with a move into the "celtic sound" is that this music is going to sound a lot like Riverdance (Oh God No! Michael Flatley comes out of retirement to dance to Riverdance:The Next Generation as composed by Karl Jenkins....) this similarity is most apparent on the sixth track "Saint Declan's Drone". My favourite parts of the album are the quieter moments, Track 7 "Salm O Dewi Sant" is sublime while Track 4 "The wooing of Etain" brings something new to Adiemusin the guitar playing of Martin Taylor which gives a jazz feel to parts of the album. There are a number of tracks that will "hook" you stright away but as with each of the Adiemus albums this is one that will grow on you as you listen to it more.
