WHO WON THE HEART
Add to My Profile | More VideosIvver Entrancin Wis: OUT NOW - a suite of music for harp, viola/fiddle, cello and voices based on pieces of Shetland poetry. Lise (voice), Chris Stout (viola and fiddle), Catriona McKay (pedal harp), Abby Heyward and Wendy Weatherby (cello), Friðarey and Capella (voices).AVAILABLE from the Visit Shetland online shop:www.visitshetland.com/shopFair Isle: where I'm from and where I am. Stormy winters and light at midnight summers, endless sea and sky, or sometimes endless fog.
Singer, songwriter, composer, poet, steeped in the traditions and habits of harmony singing (Friðarey), crofting, fiddle music, child-bearing...Sometimes found at festivals (music/lit./science) or on boats or under lighthouses in Orkney, Iceland, Shetland, Faroes, Norway, Glasgow, the beautiful Isle d'Ouessant in Brittany...Poetry: published here and there ('here' NORTH IDEA 2006) and translated into Icelandic, Finnish, Latvian, Estonian, French and Norwegian.Empty Ocean and A Place, The Sea: written and recorded with composer Damian Montagu who braved the wilds of the north with a couple of mic.s and a macbook in November 2005. They are part of Ocean Tracks: www.youtube.com/oceantracks2008 Also see Katkuda for Damian's work.A review or two:"I asked my table-mates for words to help describe Lise Sinclair as you'll get fed up seeing the word beautiful  "wonderful, sweet, easy to listen to, a uniqueness o' the Fair Isle musicians, unlike anyone else... keeping all these adjectives in mind; Lise sings of the pain of human experience; Three Trees inspired by a magazine article on a Yugoslav woman who lost her family through the conflict, planting a tree for each and watching them flourish. Middle of Winter and It's Not Something I'm Going to Do Today and a lullaby based on a Vagaland poem. I swear I did hear a pin drop."
Karen Angus, Shetland Times"like a golden dram of single malt"
"Moving and wonderful. Like a shell to the ear."
Gwilym Williams, New Hope International Review
