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Princess Rosanna by Top Floor Taivers

Taken from the debut album ‘A Delicate Game’, Princess Rosanna is a song by Scottish singer songwriter Findlay Napier. Findlay was inspired to write this song after seeing graffiti that said “RIP Princess Rosanna” whilst on a run along the river Clyde in Glasgow. Top Floor Taivers are a young and fresh Glasgow based band […]

DARK REEL by FRASER FIFIELD

The first track from the debut album by Scottish multi-instrumentalist, Fraser Fifield, ‘Honest Water’. Fraser Fifield has made a 20 year career playing with bands such as Old Blind Dogs, Salsa Celtica, Wolfstone, Mr McFalls Chamber, Capercaillie, Afro Celt Sound System, Donnie Munro, Mick West, Zakir Hussain and many more! A virtuoso performer on low […]

Father Quinn’s by Aizle

‘Father Quinn’s’ is the debut track from new folk band, Aizle. Recorded, mixed and mastered at GloWorm Studios in Glasgow by Gus Stirrat, the track features on the band’s first EP. Father Quinn’s – Sean Ryan Apsley Cottage – Colin Farrell Mrs Mackenzie’s Dilemma – Ron MacLean Kindled out of Manchester’s thriving music scene, new […]

Anna’s Lullaby by Hannah Rarity

A lullaby I wrote for the birth of my close friend’s baby girl, Anna, based on traditional Scottish lullaby melodies. Featuring Innes White on guitar and keys and Sally Simpson on fiddle. Introduced to the Scottish folk scene a mere few years ago, Hannah Rarity’s spellbinding voice and warm, genuine stage manner have seen her […]

Big Al’s by Stuart Cassells

A rockin set of tunes from BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award winner and founder of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers Stuart Cassells. b. 1979, Falkirk, Scotland. Cassells was one of the finest young pipers to emerge from the Scottish folk scene at the start of the twenty-first century. He began playing the pipes […]

Christmas Doodle by Ruairidh Gollan

This is a short loop track inspired by the Christmas season and played on the accordion and fiddle. I recorded and mixed this track in my flat in Glasgow and released it to help raise money for a family friend in Edderton with Leukaemia. The track can be bought at the following link: https://ruairidhgollan.bandcamp.com/releases with […]

Lucky Cat by Dowally

Lucky Cat is the second track from Dowally’s debut album. Rachel wrote this tune, inspired by the little swinging cats you see in Chinese restaurants (but which are actually Japanese figurines believed to bring good luck to the owner!) The latest addition to Edinburgh’s bustling folk scene, Dowally make unclassifiable, thrillingly energetic music, fusing their […]

Out of My Own Light by Louise Bichan

In 2013, Orkney fiddler and photographer Louise Bichan embarked on a unique musical and sentimental journey, between her native northern isles and coast-to-coast Canada, in the footsteps of her late paternal grandmother Margaret, née Tait (1925-2008). The result – originally premièred at Orkney Folk Festival in 2015, and now captured as an album – is […]

Apocalypse by Kaela Rowan

A beautiful unusual and ethereal track from Kaela ‘s debut Solo Album, Menagerie, released on Shoogle Records in June 2014 Described by Folkwords thus: “Listening to this album will do you so much good the medical profession should prescribe it” Tim Carrol , Folkwords: 13/06/2014 “..A powerfully unique album” Norman Chalmers Scotland on Sunday:08/0614**** “Sensuous […]

Let the Sun Shine Down on Me / Than Hall’s by Jenn & Laura-Beth

Let the Sun Shine Down on Me is the opening track of ‘Bound,’ the debut album from Jenn Butterworth and Laura-Beth Salter. Jenn is on guitar and lead vocal for this Jean Ritchie Song, and Laura-Beth on mandolin. Here’s what they have to say about the album; “This album is a representation of the last […]