Album of The Week
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The Fretless are captivatingly vulnerable, introspective and transformative on this, their sixth full-length studio release – and they are “immensely proud” of it. The four-piece, award-winning band – Trent Freeman (fiddle/viola); Karrnnel Sawitsky (fiddle/viola), Ben Plotnick(fiddle/viola), and Eric Wright (cello) – wanted the album to be experimental in nature and it successfully captures magical […]
Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton are both well established and celebrated Scottish musicians – they are also cousins. This the first piece of music they have made as a duo, despite having played music together both informally and professionally over the years as part of various groups and projects. They have come together to […]
Esteemed Scottish traditional and Gaelic singer and multi-instrumentalist Ewen Henderson is set to release his thought-provoking new album Lèirsinn – Perception this month (October 18). It features pairs of compositions based on real locations, from two different perspectives: the imagined and the experienced. Half of the album was recorded at his home studio with […]
For their tantalising debut album, Auld Springs New, Morag Brown and Lewis Powell-Reid have distilled the music they’ve been brewing for over a decade. The duo play a rich rand rewarding repertoire of acoustic instrumental music from Scottish traditions along with many others and this shared intuition and love of spontaneity allows them to freely move between melody, […]
Indie, folk-rock, and psych-pop band TRUE GENTS boldly and imaginatively weave together swirling melodies, driving rhythms and the essence of the Scottish wilderness in their music. It’s an inventive approach that’s won them many admirers since they were formed by school friends Euan Nicol and Toby Jeffery in 2006. There’s a haunting highland atmosphere […]
Simon Kempston is ‘one of Scotland’s very best songwriters’ (The Sunday Herald), a composer and leading finger style guitarist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His new album, My Dreams Are Theirs is our Album of the Week. My Dreams Are Theirs is an exquisite reflection of one person’s creative talents, of which there seems no boundaries. […]
Peter Daldry’s Leaving Ettrick Bay, is a sparkling mix of traditional Scottish and Irish songs and tunes. Originally from Clydebank, he has been resident in Mountain View, California for the past thirty years and the album was created in the Golden State. Bring Her Home, Abhainn Sluagh, Glen Fruin, Walk These Roads and the […]
Multi-award winner CHLOE MATHARU continues to impress on her second album, Sailors And Rolling Stones that is released in October. The West of Scotland-based singer-songwriter and harpist composes songs inspired by her time at sea as a Navigational Officer in the Merchant Navy and the natural world, as experienced from the sea. Through her music […]
This talented trio of unique female voices from three different cultures rise in sublime harmony to present their full-length, debut album. Flowers carries powerful stories that have moved people across borders, languages and times. It’s a rich, multilingual record that features a strong theme of female empowerment and a heartfelt plea for peace. Flowers […]
Scottish folk stalwarts ALAN REID and BRIAN McNeill have re-released their long-lost 1980 album, SIDETRACKS. They recorded this, their one and only duo album, during a hiatus in the activity of Battlefield Band. The band’s career subsequently took an upward trajectory as they were introduced to US audiences while at the same time forging […]
