Track one from my forthcoming album 'In the wake of Neil Gunn'

pre-order the album here: http://inthewakeofneilgunn.com/album-2/

Mike Vass: Tenor Guitar, Percussion, Dulcitone
featuring 
Jennifer Port: Oboe
Euan Burton: Electric Bass
Iain Hutchison: Piano
and
The Cairn String Quartet

MIKE VASS - Settled In Clay

Fergus McCreadie and friends get down and funky!  

Sheeiit

Inspired by a particularly contented outdoor breakfast experience.

Taking Breakfast Below A Tree - BBC Radio Scotland

An Daroch, composed by Rebecca Hill and featuring:

Rebecca Hill - Harp and Piano
Charlie Stewat - Fiddle
Luc McNally - Acoustic Guitar
James Steele - Tenor Saxophone

Recorded and mixed at Steele Studios March 2016.

An Daroch

Normality

A piece inspired by the Orcadian story of the 'Mester Ship', as told in the book 'Northern Lights', by George Mackay Brown. Inspired by music from around the North Sea, in particular the Icelandic band, 'Sigur Ros'.

Trumpet - Tom Clay-Harris
Alto Saxophone - Lewis Banks
Tenor Saxophone - James Steele
Trombone - Liam Shortall
Guitar - Chris Amer
Piano - Fergus McCreadie
Bass - Euan Taylor
Drums - Graham Costello

Recorded Steele Studios, Glasgow

Features on EP 'Car Journey To North Berwick', available here

http://www.chrisamer.com/shop/

The Mester Ship

Augenblick

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Composed and performed by Bernadette Kellermann

Inspired by the following poem by Brendan Kennelly:
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Begin again to the summoning birds 
To the sight of light at the window, 
Begin to the roar of the morning traffic 
All along Pembroke Road. 
Every beginning is a promise Born in light and dying in dark 
Determination and exaltation of springtime 
Flowering the way to work. Begin to the pageant of queuing girls 
The arrogant loneliness of swans in the canal 
Bridges linking the past and future
 Old friends passing though with us still. 
Begin to the loneliness that cannot end
 Since it perhaps is what makes us begin, 
Begin to wonder at unknown faces 
At crying birds in the sudden rain
 At branches stark in the willing sunlight 
At seagulls foraging for bread 
At couples sharing a sunny secret 
Alone together while making good.
 Though we live in a world that dreams of ending 
That always seems about to give in 
Something that will not acknowledge conclusion 
Insists that we forever begin. 
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Recorded, mixed and mastered by Luigi Pasquini (HowToMakeSushi Recording) @ Electric Squirrel Studios, Glasgow.

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Violin player and composer based in Glasgow, Scotland