Performed by Fraser Fifield Trio featuring Stu Ritchie on drums and Graeme Stephen on guitar, alongside Fraser Fifield, low whistle and composition.
has developed an distinctive sound across the variety of wind instruments he plays and an approach to music making which has led to collaboration with a diverse list of artists. Described by the Sunday Herald as having “emerged as one of today’s outstanding talents” and by Jazzwise magazine as “an outstanding product of the Scottish jazz-folk scene who at one moment can blow a low whistle like Charlie Parker steaming his way through ‘Ko-Ko’ and at the next knock out an air on a sax like a Highland traditionalist”, he’s consistently been guesting and collaborating as a whistle/sax/bagpipe player with a long list of bands and artists in the Scottish music scene and beyond for 20 years.
He has released 5 albums of original music on his own Tanar label, to date. Esotero is the latest release in this on going series, a ‘live studio recording’ with guitarist Graeme Stephen. Songlines magazine commented upon on, ‘Stereocanto’ in 2009; “ it’s the interplay between intellectual construction, fleeting modal improvisations and sheer emotional sensuality of the music that makes this such a satisfying, and strikingly unified, piece of work”. Other recordings are Honest Water, 2001, Slow Stream, 2005, Traces of Thrace 2008.
As a composer, Fraser is also responsible for a eclectic range of pieces including commissions for Mr McFalls Chamber, National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, Orchestra of Combined Specialist Music Schools in Scotland, Celtic Connections Festival…
Artist website: http://www.fraserfifield.com
Single title: Before and After
Album title: Slow Stream
Release Date: 11/03/2005
Single artist: FRASER FIFIELD
Single duration: 3:38
Record Label: Tanar Records
Catalogue No: TANCD002
Writers: FRASER FIFIELD
Publishers: PRS/MCPS
Explicit?: NO
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