“Bursting with intelligence, beauty and amazing emotional depth…a knee-buckling, hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck-raising, shiver-down-your-back inducing album that will have you hooked after just one listen. It’s that fucking good!” Adrienne Murphy, Ho [+]“Bursting with intelligence, beauty and amazing emotional depth…a knee-buckling, hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck-raising, shiver-down-your-back inducing album that will have you hooked after just one listen. It’s that fucking good!” Adrienne Murphy, Hotpress, NINE/TEN
“Her voice is truly remarkable; a versatile and velvety croon that is full of rich textures and heart-melting soul...Songs steeped in intelligence and insight.” Eamon Sweeney, Day and Night, Irish Independent, 4 Stars
“The voice is large and Amazonian… Imagine the operatics of Diamanda Galas, the soulful depth of Nina Simone and the elegiac androgyny of Antony and the Johnsons blended into one intense timbre.” Sinead Gleeson, The Ticket, Irish Times, 3 Stars
“Tough urban hymns with a history…probably the most intense collection of songs you'll hear this year." Eamon Carr, Evening Herald
“The most extraordinary voice ever to come out of Ireland. If you can imagine Sade with real balls, you’re getting close to what OYE can do, it will be a serious omission if she doesn’t work her way into the affections of all and sundry, at home and abroad,” Jackie Hayden, Hotpress
"One of the best voices to emerge recently onto the Irish Scene." Myles Dungan, Rattlebag, RTÉ Radio
"Listen to this haunting, ballsy, original performer, OYE’s voice sends ?tremors down the backbone. A stand-alone debut." GCN
“She’s a singer-songwriter in a league all of her own.” ?The Sunday Independent? “A unique talent” Pat Kenny, RTE Radio 1? "Incredible voice" Tom Dunne, Today FM
Shaz OYE (pronounced “Oh Yay”, as in the town crier) released her debut album “Truth according to shaz OYE” on Friday 10th March 2006. The album was launched by the poet and author Theo Dorgan with celebratory gig that evening in Radio City, Dublin, Ireland.
The ten-track CD is released on her own label Radical Faeries. Rather then seek major label backing, along with her partner and now manager Patricia Kennedy, she set up her own label Radical Faeries Records and set about self-financing the first album. The album launch is the culmination of more than two years commitment to her music career. A career which already boasts a critically acclaimed EP and debut single and has seen her featured on Rattlebag (the Irish national
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