Heidi Talbot - In Love & Light
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Artist: Heidi TalbotEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-12
Music Label: Compass Records
Soundtracks:
- If You Stay
- Cathedrals
- Invisible
- Bedlam Boys
- Time
- Glenlogie
- Music Tree
- Parting Song
- The Blackest Crow
- Everything
- Whispering Grass
- When They Ring The Golden Bells
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Music Review: Mixing singer-songwriter, folk-pop, and trad Celtic influences
Rating: 3 Stars
I admit straight out that my Irish music tastes differ from Cherish the Ladies towards less accessible, rawer sounding tunes, so please keep this in mind when rating my review's helpfulness. I try to be helpful, by showing you where this recording falls into the traditional genre as well as the many points where it seeks to depart from the Celtic sounds that have earlier dominated much of Heidi Talbot's work on disc.
The second solo album from the former lead singer of Irish-American ensemble Cherish the Ladies mixes contemporary folk with traditional tunes. John Doyle, ex-guitarist from Sólas, Eddi Reader, ex-singer from Fairground Attraction, Mike McGoldrick, flute and whistle player, and most of all veteran fiddler John McCusker deepen the influences that blend radio-friendly, vaguely world-beat, singer-songwriter tunes with those rooted in Celtic styles. Her voice shows polish, without drawing undue attention to itself. She chooses pleasant songs for the pop entries. These in their arrangements opt often for a more accessible, less traditional framework. This may demonstrate her wish to break free of the trad repertoire in the same way that many female, former lead singers of Irish groups have done in the past couple of decades internationally.
After a few songs that favor the pop approach to respectable if not rousing results, an eclectic version of Bedlam Boys energizes the track selection. A lilting Music Tree shows the blend of African with British pop to good effect, and Talbot improves upon Tom Waits' song Time. The album would appeal to those who like British pop-folk artists Eddi Reader, Boo Hewerdine (producer of this album; his Invisible is covered here, and he co-writes Everything and Blackest Crow and When They Ring the Golden Bells), and Kirsty MacColl.
However, the addition of McCusker's violin certainly moves this album, in the excellent ballad Glenlogie, co-arranged with Dick Gaughan, into more timeless territory, and it is here that Talbot sounds at her best. This song recalls Maddy Prior or June Tabor. The broadening of her music into the popular genre perhaps shows a restlessness after so long in the traditional field. Like Prior or Tabor, this direction may continue to challenge her, as she blends her traditional background with her diverse interests, and future albums may chart her success in assimilating her Celtic musical heritage with her more mainstream-oriented talents.
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Description of In Love & Light
Look out for a new star in the glittering firmament of great Irish singers:with the release of her new album In Love and Light, Heidi Talbot is truly set to shine. After five years as lead singer with the Irish-American supergroup Cherish the Ladies, and high praise for her previous solo outing, 2004's Distant Future, Talbot now extends her talents over a broader, bolder musical canvas, in company with a stellar cast of guests. Drawing on the full, diverse spectrum of influences that inform her singing, In Love and Light complements Talbot s exquisitely expressive, honeyed yet ardent voice with guest contributions from Eddi Reader, ex-Solas guitarist John Doyle, fiddler John McCusker and flute/whistle ace Mike McGoldrick.
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