Moya Brennan

Moya Brennan, sometimes Máire Brennan, or Máire Ní Bhraonáin, you know and love as the front woman of the Irish family band Clannad. Is it just me, or when you hear her sing her solo stuff do you look around expecting a crazy man with long hair to leap out of the trees with the intention of stealing your heart (literally) or your loved one?

Speaking as a crazy man with long hair and a penchant for lurking in trees, that’s not so easy for me to say. Anyway, show me a Moya song and I will find you. Or I’m in Last of the Mohicans throwing myself off high things like chairs and stools, only to crash to the carpet below.

You can do the same if you listen to her updated MySpace songs - which has a couple from the brand new Signature album, I mean CD.

It all reminds me of Donna Summer being produced by Stock Aiken and Waterman. Amazing voice, but what is all that other stuff? And for all that, the songs on her previous Moya album, 2003’s Two Horizons, strike me as a lot stronger.

Sometimes the word ‘Celtic’, when applied to vocals, tends to mean wandering songs in the land that melody forgot. I think she needs to work with Donal Lunny some more.

Signature gets its US release in early 2007. Meanwhile if you’re Christmas shopping, and you shouldn’t be, An Irish Christmas is due to get an American release any day now and Moya has some dates in the US planned for later in November. No details yet but if I was a betting man I wouldn’t put too much on KC.

The Moya thing happened when she realized how little sister Eithne did when she went with the phonetic, in Donegal Irish, spelling of her name, Enya. Now Moya can say her name to you on the phone knowing that you will then spell it correctly. Everyone should have a little sister.

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