Kathleen MacInnes
Cille Bhride
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South Uist-born Kathleen MacInnes has been far from idle in the six years since she released her first album, Og-Mhadainn Shamhraidh, with a soundtrack appearance in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood being among her high-profile engagements. This return to the studios reaffirms her place as one of the most distinctive Gaelic singers whose voice, with its peat smoke tone, conveys much in few words, whether those words be the light-hearted tale of a missing cockerel or the lovely, majestic hymn to the sun, A' Ghrian. MacInnes and producer Iain MacDonald have applied much thought and imagination to the song arrangements and this has paid off handsomely with a variety of settings including the harp-driven jauntiness that reconnects Teanga Binn mo Mhathair to its Irish roots, the banjo accompaniment by Bela Fleck that transplants two work songs to a possible Gaelic enclave in the Appalachians, and the brief but haunting voice and brass chorale that perfectly captures Tha Sneachd' air Druim Uachdair's sorrowful, wintry atmosphere.
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