New Spring

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合計収録時間 : 00:59:08
Battlefield Band: Alistair Russell (vocals, guitar, cittern); Alan Reid (vocals, guitar); John McCusker (cittern, fiddle, accordion, keyboards, whistle, background vocals); Iain MacDonald (flute, Highland bagpipes, whistle, background vocals). Recorded at Temple Records Studio, Scotland. Personnel: John McCusker (vocals, whistling, cittern, fiddle, accordion, keyboards); Iain MacDonald (vocals, whistling, flute, bagpipe); Alistair Russell (vocals, guitar, cittern, fiddle, accordion, keyboards); Alan Reid (vocals, keyboards). Liner Note Author: The Battlefield Band. Recording information: Temple Records Studio, Scotland. Arrangers: The Battlefield Band; Alistair Russell; Iain MacDonald; John McCusker. NEW SPRING signals another personnel change for these keepers of the Scottish folk music tradition. Vocalist and keyboardist Alan Reid from the band's former line-up is joined by piper Iain MacDonald, guitarist and cittern player Alistair Russell, and 18-year old multi-instrumentalist John McCusker on fiddle, accordion, cittern and whistle. Interestingly, the new Battlefield Band sounds more tradition-oriented than ever, without the slightest deviation from the high caliber of musicianship that has distinguished the ensemble from their earliest albums in the mid-'70s. This 1991 release kicks off with a lively medley of traditional pipe tunes, followed by a Reid original, a pensive lullaby entitled "The Green and the Blue." McCusker's youth is disguised by his fiddling expertise (which alternately evokes crowded taverns and misty moors), and his own trad-style compositions such as "Farewell to Ravenscraig/My Night Out with Big Iain." Russell's Celtic treatment of Charlie Rich's "I Feel Like Going Home" helps the tune blend seamlessly into the track list. It's this kind of synthesis--the mixture of old and new songs, traditional and modern instruments, and cross-cultural influences, that has maintained the Band's position as Scotland's foremost folk revivalists.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)