Music in Trust 2 by The Battlefield Band

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and beautifully crisp, was not for me. Track 5 is all quick-silver and obviously to the fans’ delight.

Side B reaches a natural ‘high’ with the well honed “Train Journey North”, and then on at this level to the “Rising Moon Reel” with Dougie Pinock, continuing to Track 5 and culminating with “Mrs MacLeod of Raasay” and “The Atholl Highlanders“, with a great ovation from the audience. A good tape, highly recommended.

Battlefield Band - “Music in Trust 2”

Temple Records. CTP029.

This is Battlefield in a different mould. Taking a trip through Scotland and time, full of memories and contrasts. Track 1 starts in traditional Scots style with fiddle in “The Laird of Brodie”, slipping easily into “Danzig Willie” and “The Merchant’s Jig”. This is followed on Track 2 by the poignant “A’Chlack Uaine”. Track 3 - “I Ha’e a Wife/Tarbolton Jig/Tarbolton Lodge” - full of rhythm and crispness, slowing into Track 4 with the haunting harp version of “The Massacre of Glencoe” changing into the Pibroch with just the right timing of the drones, prior to the sombreness of the Urlar with its classical theme of betrayal. Track 5 bounces through the medieval sound of “Falkland Palace” into “Lawers Loup”, “Miss Jane Fraser” and “Mrs Maule’s Reel”, then sweeping across to Arran and “Goat Fell”. Beautifully restrained Battlefield delightfully played and well recorded.

On Side B Track 1, to all who have stood alone on the lower platform below Corrieshalloch on a summer evening, listen and have a lump in your throat. This contrasts with the lightness of Track 2, “The Fruiting Branch” and D. Pinock’s fingering in “Gledstane’s March”. Nice touch! This is followed by the plaintive beauty of “Pitmedden”, - fine Battlefield this, which just slips into the jig and hornpipe on Track 4, “The Mote of Mark” and “Grey Mare’s Tail”. Track 6 has great piping in “Fingal’s Weeping”, “Maids of Kintail”, leading into the gentle “Hill House” and “Philosopher’s Chair”. A Scottish tapestry, colourful, contrasting and well woven. A great tape and highly recommended.

Iain MacFadyen - “Ceol Mor / Ceol Beag”

Temple Records. CTP018.

The name Iain MacFadyen is synonymous with quality and engenders great respect in the whole of the piping world. Tremendous authority and discipline are the hallmarks of his every performance. It was therefore with great pleasure and anticipation that I received this tape.

Side A, the Pibroch “Old Men of the Shells”: what a start to any piping

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Music in Trust 2 by The Battlefield Band