Naomi Berrill @  Music for Wexford

Naomi Berrill @ Music for Wexford

Saturday, 3 February 2024, 8.00pm

Inish is the new album by singer and cellist Naomi Berrill, produced and published by Casa Musicale Sonzogno.

Preceded by the single Sea Warrior, dedicated to the figure of the Irish pirate Grace O' Malley, this new fourth album tells of the life of Inishark and Inishbofin, two islands located off the west coast of Ireland. A cycle of stories, real or fictional, which rise to myth from the everyday life from which they come to life. Deities, animals, or simple fishermen, are the protagonists of the ten tracks that make up the album; ten songs between the sea and the land, where the events and feelings narrated belong to a microcosm of which we are all actors and spectators.

Inish is, in fact, the musical narration of the beauty of these islands, of the strength and courage of their inhabitants, but also of the harshness of the life of the fishing community. Through sound, Naomi Berrill sings of courage, adventure, love and light, intertwined with loneliness, danger, adversity, loss and extreme pain.

Inish also marks the beginning of the new collaboration between Berrill and the producer and musician Lorenzo Pellegrini, together with the drummer and multi-instrumentalist Andrea Beninati. The trio, a new dimension for the Irish musician, gives life to a contemporary sound, decisive and fluid at the same time, with elements of folk, jazz and classical music.

It's difficult to place Naomi's vocals in a specific place. The grace and lightness with which she expresses herself, together with the colors and sounds of the instruments, manage to convey the power of a story, a face or a feeling.

Naomi Berrill is an Irish cellist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, author and singer who has lived in Florence for several years. After completing her classical studies in Scotland, Switzerland and Italy, she began to experiment with the use of the instrument as an accompaniment to the voice, composing and arranging new pieces in which improvisation also takes place.

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Published by bethmcninch on 17 December 2023

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