Review of Ina Boyle: Songs

John Quinn, Music Web - September 2021

“Ina Boyle could scarcely have wished for better advocacy than her songs receive here. I suspect that Iain Burnside was the driving force behind the project, as he has been so often in the past. He has joined forces here with a fine trio of singers – fittingly, all three of them are Irish. The singing is first rate throughout, as is Burnside’s pianism; all four musicians demonstrate complete commitment to the cause. It’s worth saying that the artists and Delphian took advantage of a very brief window of opportunity during the Covid emergency in 2020 and set down these songs in a single day. They recorded 33 songs in just five hours, which is an amazingly short time; one would normally expect at least double that amount of time, if not more. Yet nothing about the results suggests undue haste. These are mature and excellent performances and, furthermore they have been expertly recorded by producer Paul Baxter and engineer Darius Weinberg.”