The rough guide to Celtic music
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The observer
d. 23. Feb. 2014
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Neil Spencer
d. 23. Feb. 2014
"There are a few jigs and reels, but the songs are the primary force, delivered in a voice as pure and elemental as a Hebridean seashore. The accompaniment, overseen by her partner, Eamon Doorley, is immaculate, especially the fiddles of folk quartet Rant on the touching lament Do Chalum. A bare but lovely creation".
fRoots
2014 April
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Colin Irwin
2014 April
"Like a warm summer breeze, the voice of La Fowlis is a reassuring presence in any soundtrack to life ... When, with the Rant fiddle ladies gliding mellifluously behind her, she sings a heartfelt song like Do Challum with such grace and elegance, all barriers of language, culture and musical prejudice fall away. Mixing work songs with mouth music, lullabies and love songs, this is a specifically Hebridean collection that can only add to her already considerable reputation for raising the profile of the Gaelic tradition ... Whether singing the pants off An Roghainn Dain Do Eimhir, getting mystical on An Ròn, sounding grand and majestic on Òran Fir Heisgeir or being jaunty and mischievous trading rapid-fire vocals with fiddles and pipes on Puirt-à-Beul, she carves through all the normal boundaries in which people love to imprison music ... An inviting, engaging, seductive and charming work".