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Cass McCombs
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Folk radio UK
d. 12. Aug. 2022
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Robin Denselow
d. 12. Aug. 2022
"Featured album of the month" - "Energy Islands is a brave, wildly original almost-concept album from one of the finest folk bands in Scotland. Fara are from the Orkney's, where they developed their distinctive, increasingly versatile and sophisticated style, matching the three fiddles and vocals of Jeana Leslie, Catriona Price and Kristan Harvey against piano ... The line-up now features a new pianist Rory Matheson, who is from the Highlands and plays a key role in this intriguing set ... The music is inspired not just by the beauty of the islands and its wind, waters and weather but by the extraordinary way in which the environment has been used to create green energy. By using water and wind power, in an energy revolution supported by the local people, Orkney now produces more than 100% of its energy needs ... It's a triumph that deserves a celebration, and much of the album sets out to do just that, with tracks titled Excess Energy, White Horse Power or (and they must have enjoyed naming this one) West Tide Story".
Songlines
2022 October
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Billy Rough
2022 October
"Originating from Orkney and taking inspiration from the renewable energy innovation of their home isles (...), four-piece Fara deliver a characteristically feisty and toetapping set with their third album release Energy Islands. Self-penned tunes and songs cannily play with the album's key theme and the history of their home ... The quartet's fresh and dynamic sound is a delight ... Energy Islands delivers exactly what it set out to do, with a fiery, vigorous and thoroughly rewarding, and fun, listen. This is fiddle music at its very best - an absolute joy".