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"Celtic voices: women of songs" luckily escapes through stamped compilations Narada label specializing in world music "trend" New Age "If you like cutesy scenes to cry, go your way..
This disc released in 1998 announced a Celtic wave that was breaking in Europe. This was the time when we discovered the magic of traditional tunes interpreted bagpipes and fiddle. Bagpipe yet it does not really matter in the songs of this compilation which has the intelligence to go to four unknown singers in Europe rather than twenty diverse artists. This contributes to the exceptional unity of this disc that functions as a revelation. I should say four revelations as these singers, away to explore a vein that works, the Celtic soul sweat from every pore of their exceptional vocal cords.
What brings Mary McLaughlin, Connie Dover, Maired Sullivan and Emma Christian, beyond their Irish origins (Connie Dover is one American), it is primarily their angelic timbre. Attention their voice does not sound ethereal how to Enya, but totally clear in the way of a stream rushing down the misty moor. If you are fans of these clear voice to give chills, then you rush on this exceptional compilation. These singers are what I've heard better in the register of a Celtic Soul inhabited by a genuine fervor. No song looks good only among those who were selected (about 3-4 songs by singer). The melodies, sensitive, deep, deploying a velvet on which are laying the pure voices of singers. In the lot, however, I retain especially upsetting "Cantus" Connie Dover (one of the most poignant vocal performances that I've ever heard) and the sublime "Sealwoman / Yundah" Mary McLaughlin ( a beauty and a phenomenal incantatory power), which is in my personal pantheon of the five most beautiful songs all ages and nationalities.
"Women of songs" vibrates a faith, an authenticity, a rare emotion which is so precious to give up in difficult times when humanity moves away from its original base: innocence.