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Released: May 2005

Format: CD

Rating: 4/10

Cat.no.: BELECD001

Thirteen year old Chester schoolboy Inigo Byrne releases his debut album My World on Belerion Records.

The talent remains with the singing as he delves into the back-catalogue of popular legends Lennon and McCartney, Queen, Stevie Wonder and Tears for Fears.

Classical composer Mozart also makes the cut, along with some nice renditions of traditional songs. Not all the songs work because of the limp arrangements such as Everybody Wants To Rule The World. Proverbial fodder like Morning Has Broken gets the umpteenth cover.

Backing musicians Fairport Convention, the London Metropolitan Orchestra and singers from the Tarvin Children’s Choir make excellent contributions.

Byrne scores high on track 14 – Ave Verum Corpus, but translates less effectively into the secular sojourns of The Beatles’ Across The Universe.

Best track by a mile is Listen To The Voices.

As a debut it’s a very good effort, but he’s a long way to go. Problems will arise when his voice breaks and the next step in his vocal development may not take him into the highly competitive music world. One major drawback is the lack of challenging material, though he excels on May It Be.

After a while, I found the whole listening experience rather dull. Good luck to him,because he’ll need a hit like Aled Jones’ Walking In The Air to get commercially recognised, and it isn’t here.

Weblink Inigo Byrne.co.uk

The full list of tracks included are :

1. Blackbird 2. If It’s Magic 3. Is This The World Created? 4. Listen To The Voice 5. May It Be 6. Everybody Wants To Rule The World 7. Across The Universe

8. Morning Has Broken 9. Jerusalem 10. Who Will Buy? 11. Close Every Door To Me 12. Shining Land 13. Reverie 14. Ave Verum Corpus

Review & concert pics copyright © Elly Roberts, 2004-2008. For prints of any of Elly's concert pics online, email Elly or call 07765 862017.

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