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'People like me' released on Navigator Records 23rd Feb 09
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“Alyth loves singing, and lets you know that with out telling you. You can hear it in her voice. She may be from lewis, sings (but not all exclusively) in Gaelic, and often performs with harp and fiddle - but she’s not a folkie. Her musical education and influences are too wide to sit in that, or any other, ghetto, minimalists like Reich, the sweeping eclecticism of Adams, sophisticated rock, modal jazz and role models like June Tabor or Marta Sebestyen have taken her down a path where she can sing unaccompanied in a Hebridean hall one day and with a metropolitan fusion samba band the next. She is at home on stage and brings to her music - whether with the close harmony vocalists in Shine or full jazz/rock rhythm section in Sunhoney - a still centre"
(Norman Chalmers - the List - August 2003)
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Updated May 09
Alyth is currently promoting her new album - recently supporting Moving Hearts at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast. She recorded an interview with Ian McMillan for BBC Radio 3's The Verb and this month is touring Ireland with The Chieftains - see tour dates.
She also been touring America with The Chieftains -- you can read the reviews of this American tour in LIVE GIGS There are also reviews of Alyth's new album 'People like me' , released on February 23rd in ALBUM REVIEWS .For a taste of life on the road you can read Alyth's tour diary in AMERICA 09.
Alyth is also due to take part in a project with a host of other artists from a multitude of media called the 7sails project - creative Chinese whisper between artists of different disciplines at northern latitudes. check where it's afloat.... http://www.studiolog.heriot-toun.co.uk/
PLUS - see the video of the opening track 'Nuair bha mi og' from 'People like me' recorded for Horo Gheallaidh
'People like me' released on NavigatorRecords 23rd Feb 09
Alyth's new solo album 'People like me' was released on Navigator Records www.navigatorrecords.co.uk on the 23rd February 2009. It includes traditional and contemporary songs in both English and Gaelic. Songwriters such as Boo Hewerdine, Justin Currie and Jim Malcolm feature along with top class musicians such as Jonny Hardie (The Old Blind Dogs), Brian Mcalpine (Session A9), Noel Eccles ( Moving Hearts), Aidan O'Rourke (Lau), Ewen Vernal (Capercaillie), Fraser Fifield (The Fraser Fifield Band), Donal Hay (Mystery Juice) and Gerald Peregrine.
For Scotland on Sunday review see below:
By NORMAN CHALMERS
ALYTH
People Like Me ****
Navigator Records Navigator 33.
The rebranded Lewis singer/actress dropped her surname to be known simply as Alyth, but her remarkable voice remains unchanged. It is joined by intricate accompaniment on the contemporary songs written by the likes of Del Amitri's Justin Currie, Boo Hewerdine, and David McDade and some settings of Gaelic song. Over the years, Alyth's vocal vibrato and skilled delivery have created many admirers, and sitting between sophisticated pop and the classy but commercial side of the current folk styles, this polished album will garner many more.
