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Billings Gazette, CD Review >>
Mary Jane Lamond
"Storas"
Turtlemusik
Shortly after moving to Nova Scotia in 1989, Mary Jane Lamond attended a "milling frolic," a gathering of women in a long hall to prepare wool. The woman eased the hard work by singing traditional Scottish songs in their strange and lyrical Gaelic.
The island's form of Gaelic is spoken nowhere else on earth but Scotland and fewer than 500 native speakers remained then in Nova Scotia. Lamond quickly joined in the effort to save the language.
She furthers that effort here with a set of traditional Scottish Gaelic songs, but gives them a reverent modern twist. Traditionally sung in unison without harmony and unaccompanied, Lamond has added fiddles to many of these songs, along with light percussion and guitars.
Above all else is Lamond's sweet, angelic voice, which needs nothing else to make the a cappella, 350-year-old "Blar Inbhir Lockaidh" shine like new.
-Chris Jorgenson 01/13/06
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