Heidi Vogel's extraordinarily rich and complex vocal timbre proved capable of completely seducing the senses.
'Vogel's singing seemed to crystallise that quality of calm sorrow which is such a stylistic trait of Brazilian music' - Peter Quinn, the Arts Desk
Royal Albert Hall 2010
"...Although it was Heidi Vogel who stole the show.
On Familiar Ground, she bellowed out with a voice made from mountains and oceans, while every last drop of emotion was wrung from the swooning closer All That You Give."
... The Evening Standard
Barbican 2011
"....But it needed vocalist Heidi Vogel’s controlled flights of fancy to hold the attention."
.... The Financial Times
"From her towering opening performance, Heidi Vogel says everything in the right key.... Vogel's voice is an extraordinarily rich and complex instrument, one that you can easily fall in love with.
...." Jazzwise Magazine **** 4 Stars
"While the physical and mechanical elements of its production are common to all, the sound of a person's voice is as individual as a fingerprint. Heidi Vogel's extraordinarily rich and complex vocal timbre proved capable of completely seducing the senses....A singer who is as naturally sympathetic to the Brazilian idiom as anyone, her capacity to unfurl long-lined melodies is remarkable. She manages to balance the music's introspective sensibilities and its quietly dramatic inner core to telling effect, such that she can lift the soul while simultaneously breaking your heart... that fragile, light-as-air quality was very much to the fore, but it's when Vogel opened up and switched from head voice to chest voice that you really experienced the direct expression of her soul."
...The Arts Desk
"....A voice that comes from the deepest places of the heart, honest interpretation of songs, a powerful childlike presence on stage that makes her so watchable...the blend that emerges out of her recently released album "Tears of a Bird" where Heidi interprets songs of great composers such as Vinicius de Moraes, Jobim and Joe Henderson."
.... Jungle Drums Magazine
" 'Tears Of A Bird' is a sublime slice of heartfelt beautiful Brasilian music. subtle and clearly created with love for those magical mellow moments. One of the first new albums I've heard in a while by a vocalist where I really get into the voice as an instrument from the first note.."
... Mark de Clive Lowe
“I defy anyone not to fall into Heidi Vogel's deeply soulful, sometimes fragile but always gorgeous voice.”
... Ian Shaw
"The Cinematic Orchestra hid a real passion for Brazilian music. Something which has now blossomed into her debut album Lagrimas De Um Passaro, an album where she finally got to unleash her voice, surely one of the great jazz voices of modern times, on songs of her own choosing."
...Vamos-London
"Please take a moment to listen to Heidi's new record, you will need it! What a lovely moment I had with you listening to all of the songs"
.... Mathieu Schreyer KCRW Radio
"Singer extraordinaire Heidi Vogel's long anticipated debut solo album, Lágrimas De Um Pássaro - Tears Of A Bird, was released on Fly Like A Bird Records...Vogel is perhaps best known as the lead singer with The Cinematic Orchestra... For those perhaps not yet familiar with Ms. Vogel's exceptional voice - this song bird outsings a nightingale any day.... Powerful yet effortless, soulful, highly expressive, Ms. Vogel's voice has something of a special quality about it and is as one in a million. Lágrimas is the most exquisite, beautiful, sensational album of Brazilian music of this kind by a female vocalist in a very long time."
...Rainlore's World of Music.
"I’m at The Royal Albert Hall, Breathe by The Cinematic Orchestra is playing live. The London Metropolitan Orchestra are stationed and moving with fierce precision. The circle envelops me, I look and he smiles. I peer the miles down from our sectioned box and I see Heidi Vogel is about to unleash and pour her voice over the hall again. She does it slowly and blends with the instruments before together they gallop and circulate the grand hall, swirling us up in a haze of stunning sound"
... Amelia's magazine.com
"As per usual, the Cinematic Orchestra brought a few special guests. The formidable Nu-Jazz vocalist Heidi Vogel joined in for awe-inspiring renditions of "Child Song" and of course "Evolution"."
... Laist.com ( El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles)
"Their set started off as a very subdued affair. Out steps Heidi Vogel, a London-born vocalist who has performed and recorded with the likes of the Brand New Heavies. Incorporating jazz, soul Latin and funk, her main influence is Brazilian bossa nova singer-songwriter Rosa Passos. Vogel added another layer to the five-piece, bringing the songs to another plateau. Her luxurious voice intermittently allowed saxophonist Tom Chant to drop behind the vocals, letting the rhythm flow like a river of sound over our heads, under our noses and through our bodies."Evolution," a track off their album, Every Day. It's a song that exemplified Vogel's blessed singing, a voice that perfectly accompanied the beautiful instrumentals of the band."
... Jambase.com (North Sea Jazz Festival)