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Edwige
Reviews
YOU SHOW THEM
THE MOON AND THEY LOOK AT YOUR FINGER
"Edwige's voice (is) a wonderful, peculiar, obliquely
beautiful thing. It curves itself round the tones of opera singer, cat purr,
wise seductress, vocal trapeze; all with glass-etching clarity and weird
ricochets.... (It) zips and kinks like a skidding comet. . And it can carry its
eccentricity convincingly as well."
The Voice shoots up to ecstatic heights, hits the stars, ignites them in a wave
of flame..."
(Fermina Daza)
I think the ”You
Show Them The Moon and they look at your finger “ CD is brilliant ,imaginative,
moving ,different , wonderful (Kevin Goldstein-Jackson )
KEEP THE
CHANGE
"(Her) unorthodox and
uneasily captivating voice, zooming and dodging (a brilliantly coloured, elusive
dragonfly) over her baroque, mystical songs. It's more unpredictable now than
ever - zigzagging through melodies, it's never quite where you expect it to be.
She'll carol, coo, stick you with a sharp note. She'll shiver herself into
blocks of eerie harmonies flickering between celestial and discordant; double
back on herself, frustrate you, salve you; and finally dissolve into a lovely
swarm of voice-clouds."
"Harpsichord and dreampad sounds replace tinny synth presets; gentle bluesy
guitars add new body; cellos, Appalachian fiddles and soft saxophones peep out
of the corners. "Keep The Change" possesses the nebulous, pine-forest
cleanliness of Narada or Windham Hill folk; and if the first album was postcards
from Edwige's imagination, "Keep The Change" brings you a breath of her inner
countryside."
"Her themes of continuance and connection, of inner illumination and the
dispelling of fear, sit in leaf-green settings - "Water "'s puff of baby-Clannad
folk, "Reflection's" tinkling Vivaldi pop. Rainmists and mermaids, wind and
light permeate the lyrics and the rootsier atmospheres."
"Sometimes Edwige brushes up against the exquisite..."
"Light Energy Love": a sweet, open Love-style melody (specifically, Bryan
Maclean's gossamer hums on "Forever Changes") with a champagne tingle of fiddles
and guitars"
'The little soul warrior with the effervescing voice isn't going to give up."
(Dann Chinn )
Wherever It Is:
One of the most touching melodies I have ever heard coupled with a delicate
lyric filled with a resonance so profound it always moves me to tears. The low
string (cello) bleeds into the veins of this song with a sublime melancholy,
taking me everywhere.
First
class. (Mark Vincent - performer songwriter).
Rise and sing
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One
listen to Edwige's "Rise and Sing" (http://www.edwige.co.uk) will
set your ears on fire with Edwige's meaningful songs. Like a modern
day Joni Mitchell, her passionate delivery and deep feeling for her
work will keep her audience tuned in from the album's beginning
through the very last track. Songs like "Elegy for You" and "Bad
Hair Day" show a level of introspection not often seen in today's
music.
She has the
ability to reach inside of her listener and pull out a raw emotion.
She then shows it to them and returns it, leaving the listener with
a new understanding of why it's there and what it means. She does
all of this without ever coming across as pretentious as most
artists out there today. |
Edwige has this
hypnotic voice that wraps around me and holds my attention. Songs
like "After the Rain" keep me coming back again and again with their
melodic music and velvety vocals. When I am done here and I go to
write my own music I could only hope to bring to the table what
Edwige does. If I could only write with half of the honesty that
Edwige brings to her music, I will feel like I succeeded.
author: Adam Harrington |
"'...
your heart wouldn't be but for a love greater than one can ever conceive,' -
Edwige
says in 'Time for the Glorious', no doubt it is one of the fundamental ideas
that run
through the whole album. 'Fusion' is a rare combination of classic
and contemporary sound, that acts like an everlasting force. It magnetizes you
and
then twirls you unconscious into a mysterious dance that's got the only name -
love.
There is a light at the end of every tunnel. This music will break the walls
of yours and gently blind you with righteousness. It is true as nature, pure as
sunrise, timeless as love."
( artist Yekaterina Gorokhova)
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