Search - Celeste Alayne :: Portrait of the Goddess

Vocalist and composer Celeste Alayne presents Portrait of the Goddess as 10 songs, revealing the face of the goddess in her many guises through musical stories. Alayne's vocals are a nice medium-weight second soprano, which serves these ethnic-influenced songs well. Within the structure of heavily synthesized New Age pop, the pieces are fleshed out with Celtic, Asian, and Native American stylings, though they never attempt to be full-blown "traditional." Likely to appeal to pagan and wiccan communities, Portrait of the Goddess is Earth-centered and feminine in energy and will happily round out collections that already include Putumayo's Women of Spirit and Gary Stadler's Fairy series of recordings. --Paige La Grone