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    Nae Plans Vol.1 The Highland Livingroom - on CD (+ instantaneous digital download of the tracks immediately following your purchase)

    A selection of 12 marvellous live studio recordings recorded in winter 2013.

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    Pianist/vocalist Hamish Napier (Back of The Moon, Man’s Ruin) and fiddler Adam Sutherland (Treacherous Orchestra, Session A9, Croft No. 5) join forces in a new and exciting album project called ‘Nae Plans‘.

    The concept was to record an album that was strictly unrehearsed (the pair barred any discussion between themselves about what tunes they would play or how they would arrange them). The material ranges from traditional songs and tunes, to contemporary numbers, to their own compositions and improv. The recordings capture the duos raw creativity and demonstrates their outstanding musical intuition. The live performances display a kind of electricity and excitement by the off-the-cuff nature and highlight every nuance. Each performance is unique and demonstrates the incredible talent of two of Scotland’s foremost musicians. As they allow themselves the freedom to experiment, ‘Nae Plans’ becomes ‘Nae limits’.

    Beautifully recorded by acclaimed engineer Barry ‘Spad’ Reid, this field-recording consists entirely of first-takes: nae edits, nae overdubs, nae qualms, nae plans, harking back to an older way of recording folk music in the spirit of folklorists such as Alan Lomax. The two folkies draw their inspiration from other musical styles present in their lives, and freely express this. Chaos, raw energy, outrageous risk-taking, delight, joy, aching poignancy and humour – all in abundance in a series of enthralling performances captured in a wee Highland cottage in the depths of winter.

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The Sweetness of Mary [Joan MacDonald Boes]
An Drochaid Chliùteach (The Famous Bridge) – Trad
Molly Rankin’s [John Morris Rankin]
The lads kick off with The Sweetness of Mary strathspey (although it is also played as a march sometimes). Cape Bretoner, Joan MacDonald Boes was a pianist who grew up steeped in Scottish folk culture and traveled to America to study jazz piano – much like Hamish in fact! The mighty reel at the end was written by John Morris Rankin for his daughter, but the middle tune is an absolute tune-and-a-half, literally, due to it’s 3/2 meter (each bar is one-and-a-half times the size of that of a normal reel)! The tune was reputedly written by a humorous Gael who was poking fun at some civil engineers who had made a mess building one of the causeways out to the East side of Benbecula in the 50’s. It was first recorded by Scottish pipe/flute legend Iain MacDonald, ‘The Whaler’, from Glen Uig.

These tunes are absolutely classic ‘fiddle camp’ material. Just seemed to turn out that way. Adam and Hamish have sycophantically named this tune after a famous fiddle festival, in the hope that someday the festival might give them a gig!

This was one of the last sets recorded on the album before we cracked the cider open for the after-party, as you’ll hear at the end of the track!

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from Vol. I - The Highland Livingroom, released January 1, 2014

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Authentic Scottish Folk Music.
Nae Plans aims to get to the heart of Folk music by capturing performances that are unplanned, with no prearrangement or rehearsal. The key is to capture performances as those of a folk session, stripped back, unadulterated and in the moment. ... more

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