From: Martin Snodin
[martin.snodin_at_homecall_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 13 September 2011 20:25
Subject: Acoustic Sussex
Newsletter 2011-09-13 - Iain Morrison Band - 1st October
Newsletter 13 September 2011 |
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Winner
of The Scots Trad Music
Award for ‘Composer of the Year 2010’, Iain Morrison is one of Scotland’s most
inventive and exciting new contemporary musicians. A singer-songwriter and
acclaimed piper from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Morrison’s
music has been likened, at one extreme, to artists such as U2 or REM, set
against the poignancy and longing that is the essence of Gaelic song. With a
golden ear for strong melody and an engaging, expressive singing voice, he
produces an enigmatic and truly original mix of creative elements capturing
sonorous beauty with poetic and often witty observation. His
performance at this year’s Glasgow Celtic Connections festival gained a 5 Star review for his 'New
Voices' composition. Stornoway-born,
Morrison was for a time the frontman and guitarist of Glasgow indie band
Crash My Model Car but with an alter ego as a piper. Taught by his
musically-renowned Pipe-Major father at the age of eleven using canntaireachd
(the ancient Gaelic verbal notation of music), there was an unspoken
expectation that Morrison would follow into the family tradition. For a while
he did, but in his late teens he picked up a guitar and his music took off in
a wholly different and unique direction. In his hands, ancient music such as
‘Mackintosh’s Lament’ (the main theme of which was famously taken by Dvorak
for his New World Symphony) becomes a raw and powerful music tour de force
that was likened to the Velvet Underground when it was performed by his band
at the festival. Morrison
has appeared once before at East Grinstead when, in January 2010, he provided
solo support to a show by US artist Anais Mitchell - and wowed the audience
with his singing, song-writing and piping skills. After joining her onstage,
the two became musical collaborators and she made a guest appearance on his
most recent album, Haunted Bird. He also played the part of Orpheus in
Mitchell’s acclaimed folk opera, Hadestown, a production performed in Glasgow
and London that included stellar folk names such as Martin Carthy, Thea
Gilmore and Jim Moray. This year has seen him appear at major venues and on TV
and radio, including a recent live session on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends. In
this special one-off show (in which he breaks into his tour dates with Julie
Fowlis), Morrison appears with his full band and is joined by the
enigmatic singer songwriter, Wallis Bird.
She was also in the cast of the Hadestown productions and has recently
supported The Feeling on tour. Expect an evening of
exhilarating, contemporary roots music when anything can happeof
exhilarating, contemporary roots music that you'll love. "For
every boy who follows his father into the family business, there's a dozen
more who push all that's expected away and tread their own path. Musically,
Iain Morrison is the rare example of a man who has done both. His father,
Pipe Major Iain M Morrison, is a distinguished piper of more than local
renown, and Iain's handling of a set of pipes comes from tutelage at his
father's knee. Yet, there was, by his own admission, a sometimes painful
separation from the tradition into which most people expected to see him
follow, and excel. Iain picked up a guitar, and started to experiment. For
anyone who remembers Crash My Model Car, it's obvious how far from tradition
he was prepared to go. He's someone who compresses music styles, life
experience and emotion into a uniquely crafted style both distinctive and
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