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Léirmheasanna/Reviews
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Flame of Wine
Hot Press Music Magazine 9/10
"Inishere-born singer Lasairfhíona
Ní Chonaola’s debut album An Raicín Álainn was the
surprise gem of 2002, her cool, airy
voice, and effortless style drawing raves from critics (including this one.)
Following it up was never going to be an easy task, but Ní
Chonaola rises to the challenge on this beautifully paced album which is varied
enough to keep the most jaded listener hooked, from
obscure local finds like ‘An tAmhrán Bréagach’ to
the classic ‘big song’ ‘An Raibh Tú ar an gCarraig’
to two superb originals: the
gentle ballad ‘Galleon’ (one of two songs in English) and the title
track, a wordless piece of freewheeling mouth music that Ní
Chonaola describes as her ‘signature tune’. As on her previous release,
she’s included one spoken work number – ‘Aoibhneas
An Ghrá’, incanted over a spine-tingling combination of keening
vocals and rumbling bodhrán."
Sarah McQuaid
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Fíon maith an dara huair
Foinse, Na hEalaíona, 13 Samhain 2005
Deireann siad i gcónaí gurb é an dara ceirnín an
ceann is deacra ar fad. Scriosadh mná, fir agus grúpaí
de mhná agus fir i ngeall
nach rabhadar in ann an t-aicsean a dhéanamh tar éis albam mór
amháin a chur amach. Smaoinigh ar Edie Brickell, nó Tracy
Chapman.
Ach ná smaoinigh ar Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola. Tá
an dara albam ó bhean Inis Oírr, Flame of Wine, chuile phioc chomh
maith leis an gcead album a chuir sí amach roinnt blianta ó shin,
An Raicín Álainn. Tá glór Lasairfhíona iontach
séimh ach fós tá
carachtair ann atá in ann scéal garbh a chur trasna más
gá. Tá a stíl mhealltach ag tarraingt éistóirí
chuig na seanamhráin Ghaeilge
ó áiteanna atá i bhfad ó chultúr na tíre
seo (bíodh sin i Timbuktu nó Termenfeckin).
Tá amhráin nuachumtha chomh
maith le seanamhráin ar an dlúthdhiosca seo. Scríobh Lasairfhíona
í féin an tracic bhreá ‘Galleon’
agus is saghas poirt nó torann béil atá i gceist leis an
gcéad amhrán ar an dlúthdhiosca, Flame of Wine.
Seasann an t-amhrán, ‘An
Raibh Tú Ar An gCarraig’ amach mar bhuaicphointe an dlúthdhiosca.
Seo go direach an cineál
amhráin go bhfuil máistreacht iomlán ag Lasairfhíona
air. Tá uaigneas agus crá an amhráin le cloisteáil
go soiléar ina glór tríd síos.
Le Flame of Wine is léir go bhfuil
an bhean seo ag fás agus ag forbairt ó thaobh an cheoil. Ní
raibh an dara halbam pioc
deacair di, agus ní móide go mbeidh aon cheann eile ach oiread!
Breandán Ó hEaghra
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Reviews of An Raicín Álainn
BBC Folk & Acoustic Review of An Raicín Álainn
Lasairfhíona is voted Female Vocalist of the Year on Liveireland.com 2004
www.globalvillagidiot.net Review
www.members.tripod.com/RootsTown
Paul Carr reviews An Raicín Álainn by Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola
SUNDAY
TIMES, June 01, 2003
Music: Inisheer’s west coast sound
Singer Lasairfhiona Ni Chonaola may be steeped in the traditional music of the
Aran Islands but her ambitions are strictly Californian, she tells Mick Heaney
THE IRISH TIMES, Weekend Review, Saturday, June 28 2003 Carrier of the flame, by Siobhán Long
Inisheer Vocalist Sings the Way She Feels CEOL By Earle Hitchner
Irish Music Magazine, John O Regan
The
Irish Times, Arminta Wallace
‘Sé seo m’Oileán is a treat for your eyes and
your ears.
Songs from a small island
Geoff Wallis, Folk Roots Magazine. (Jan/Feb 2003)
Sarah McQuaid, HotpressVol. 26, Issue 18
Siobhán Long, The Ticket, Irish Times, 12/09/02
Philip King, Hummingbird Records
Tom
Keller, www.folkworld.de
Sarah Caden, Sunday
Independent
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