View basket “Leonard Cohen Auf Schwedisch” has been added to your basket. Urstan Mairi Morrison & Alasdair Roberts SKU: DC498 Barcode: 781484049814 14.00 £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City Released Date: 21st March 2012 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The Gaels of Scotland are a Celtic people, related to the people of Ireland, the Isle of Man and, more distantly, to the people of Wales, Cornwall and Brittany in France; they share cultural and linguistic similarities with them all. As with their Celtic neighbours, the Gaels are the keepers of an ancient and noble folk tradition, one which the American folklorist Alan Lomax referred to (in a letter to the Scottish poet Hamish Henderson) as “the finest flower of Western Europe.” The Scottish Gaelic tradition is incredibly diverse for such a small country – each area, each island, has its own repertoire of songs and tales and many towns and villages formerly had their own ‘bards’ and storytellers. Mairi Morrison comes from Bragar on the Isle of Lewis, one of the furthermost parts of the Scottish Gàidhealtachd – almost as far west as one can go in Scotland before reaching North America. Of all the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland, Lewis is culturally one of the richest. Mairi now lives in Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, but she carries the Lewis tradition in her heart and her voice. Alasdair Roberts is a non-Gaelic speaking Lowlander, a folk singer and writer of songs with a growing interest in the Gaelic culture tradition of his homeland. Ceol’s Craic, a Glasgow-based club devoted to promoting Gaelic arts in the city, brought Mairi and Alasdair together to make ‘Urstan’, which takes its title from a Lewis-specific word for a celebration held at the birth of a new child – a dram of whisky, basically. Most of the tracks are traditional Gaelic songs, with a few Scots songs and self-written tracks too, all played in new, forward-facing arrangements by an ensemble including Stevie Jones (bass), Alastair Caplin (fiddle) and Alex Neilson (drums). ‘Urstan’ features guest appearances from such Glasgow music scene luminaries as Michael John McCarthy (Zoey Van Goey), David McGuinness (Concerto Caledonia), Ross MacRae and Richard Merchant (Second Hand Marching Band), Peter Nicholson (The One Ensemble), Mike Hastings (Trembling Bells) and Gaelic song and piobaireachd authority Allan MacDonald. ‘Urstan’ presents a spirited and innovative musical re-imaging of a number of classic traditional Gaelic and Scottish numbers and one original tune each from Mairi and Ali. There’s fastidious notes included in both Gaelic and English, but the compulsive rhythms and moods conjured by the band will leave you little time to read while the music plays – ‘Urstan’ is a physically absorbing experience, filled to abundance with colour and the love of life. Artist Mairi Morrison & Alasdair Roberts Genre Folk Label Drag City Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Mìle Marbhphaisg air a’Ghaol The Laird o’ the Drum Làrach do Thacaidean Never Wed An Old Man E Ho Leigein Fiullaigean Hion Dail-a Horo Hì The Tri-Coloured House Am Faca Sibh Lilidh Tha Mise Ri Lorg? 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