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SUMMARY
A very well-recorded album from an Irish folk artist who is rapidly gaining significant acclaim. Out There includes 15 folk tunes, most of them originals.
Starting at the extremely young age of 4 Eleanor performed in a music competition as the lead singer in her sister's band. Four years later, she would take up the violin. Following college, (graduating with honors from Trinity) she began performing with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Five years later, she made the decision to leave the symphony and begin songwriting, which was what she was truly passionate about.
"Out There" follows four albums, soundtracks, singles and various compilations and contains fifteen folk tunes from Ireland's most successful songstress.
As is often the way of the music biz world, Irish singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy has eased into some of the best material of her career after downsizing from a major. Classically founded but steeped in the transatlantic gypsy tradition of Van Morrison et al, her art has found its acoustic centre over her last couple of albums, a roots-return embodied here by a rare cover of one of the mighty Lowell George's most sublime songs, Roll Um Easy - that Dublin brogue skating over Lowell's oak-smoked lyrics is, verily, sweet paradise. McEvoy's own lyrics are equally romantic, well versed in the vagaries of hi-tech human relationships if prone to occasional heavy handedness on weightier issues..
With some help from:-
Liam Bradley: drums, percussion, backing vocal, "whistle".
Dave Rotheray: bass, electric guitar.
Produced By Mick O'Gorman and Eleanor McEvoy
Recorded by Dave Williams at The Grange Studio, Norfolk, England.
Mixed by Ciaran Byrne at Westland Studios, Dublin.
SACD Mastered by Ian Cooper at Metropolis, London.
LP 1/2 speed Mastered by Miles Showell at Metropolis Mastering, London.
LP pressed on 180gms by Pallas GMBH, Diepholz, Germany.
Photography by Shane McCarthy
LP cover design by Ed McGinley
REVIEWS
Uncut
"Irish chanteuse finds the grit on fifth album. The songs are wry, witty and gritty and if you heard "Non Smoking Single Female" blind you might easily hazard it was Martha Wainwright.
Maverick
5 out of 5 stars. "First class songs sung by a genuinely soulful singer."
Irish Times
"McEvoy still surprises with her jagged-edged personality that celebrates rather than suppresses dissonance"
Hot Press
"... boy does she go all the way on this one; never mind Gillian Welch, the Carter clan would be impressed by this" Feb. 2007
Hifi +
"10 out of 10" for Recording and Performance. "....get it now, because this is one album you don't want to be waiting for"
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1. Non Smoking Single Female
2. To Sweep Away A Fool
3. Wrong So Wrong
4. Little Look
5. Vigeland's Dream
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology Song)
7. Quote I Love You Unquote
8. So Much Trouble
9. Three Nights In November
10. Suffer So Well
11. The Way You Wear Your Troubles
12. (When You) Smile
13. Fields Of Dublin
14. Interlude - Iberius
15. Roll Um Easy
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