The single is heavily influenced by large cityscapes, most significantly New York. Bleecker Street is a vibrant passage in the centre of Manhattan full of interesting music and art. This first melody features an unusual 5/4 time signature which continues to develop as the track progresses. We then transition into The Busker using polyrhythmic footsteps. […]
Queen of Argyll by Silly Wizard
The Queen of Argyll was always a hugely popular live song for Silly Wizard, one of Scotland’s all-time most influential folk bands. This version was recorded in front of a sell out crowd in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the band’s 1983 North American tour. The recording was originally released as 2 LPs. A repackaged and re-mastered […]
A ghaoil, leig dhachaigh gum mhàthair mi (O love, let me home to my mother) by Julie Fowlis
Taken from Julie’s fourth studio album, this hypnotic and mysterious song tells the tale of a young girls’ encounter with the ‘each-uisge’ or water-horse. Featuring award winning Scottish ensemble RANT, with strings arranged by flautist and composer Tom Doorley. Brought up on North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Fowlis has been a proud standard bearer […]
Scotland’s Winter by Siobhan Miller
This track is a musical setting of the Edwin Muir poem Scotland’s Winter, by Ewan Macpherson from the debut solo album from Siobhan Miller, ‘Flight of Time.’ Recently Siobhan’s soulful and stirring renewal of traditional song has seen her voted Scots Singer of the Year in the Scots Trad Music Awards, not once but twice. […]
Bagpipe Music by Battlefield Band
The opening track from Battlefield Band’s ‘Room Enough For All’ album, ‘Bagpipe Music’ sets to music the words of a famous poem written by Irish born Louis MacNeice in the 1930s after a visit to Scotland’s Western Isles. The superficially ‘nonsense’ poem actually passes deeper comment on what MacNeice perceived as the decline of the […]
Barney’s by Alasdair MacCuish & The Black Rose Ceilidh Band
Barney’s’ is from Alasdair MacCuish and the Black Rose Ceilidh band’s latest album, No Half Measures. The track represents the band’s approach to Scottish dance music – swinging music featuring great tunes and played with both the listener and the dancer in mind. Alasdair MacCuish & the Black Rose Ceilidh Band has been putting their […]
Hi Ho Ro Tha Mi Duilich by Breabach
Ùrlar is the fourth instalment from the Scottish folk band Breabach. The name translates as ground and the music on this album was collected and composed by the band from friends, family and local musicians that have had an impact on their lives and music. Hi Ho Ro Tha Mi Duilich A 19th century emigrants […]
The Naughty Step by Peatbog Faeries
Recorded in 2011 and released on the bands 7th album that year. Based on the Isle of Skye, the Peatbog Faeries are one of Scotlands the best known names in contemporary folk music. In 2012 they were a nominee for “Best Live Act” at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, having already twice won “Live […]
The Wing by Shooglenifty
The Wing remixed by Quee Macarthur is taken from Disc 2 of the band’s epic double album Murmichan (2009). Shooglenifty’s new album The Untied Knot will be released in December 2014. Shooglenifty’s sound springs from traditional Scottish dance music, energised by the beats and bass line of something altogether more contemporary. It is not a […]
The Rut by Skerryvore
‘The Rut’ is an instrumental track written by Skerryvore piper Martin Gillespie from the bands latest album ‘Chasing The Sun’ Inspired by sun-filled summers spent on Tiree that were the springboard for the band forming, ‘Chasing The Sun’ is the fifth and arguably most mature sounding Skerryvore album. Skerryvore first formed on the tiny lsle […]
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