#ross whyte

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I've been looking for this song since i first heard it on the radio last New Year's eve! I couldn't find it because i had no idea of title or band and the damned lyrics were in gaelic! AND TODAY, FINALLY, FOUND IT, FUCKYES!

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All photos from 2016-02-10 gig at Cafe OTO, London and copyright © Seán Kelly, reproduced with permission.

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Occasional links 2015-11-01

Collaborator update:

Alasdair appeared early one morning on STV, as part of a feature with friend Donald Lindsay, who was showing off his 3D-printed pipes;

Ross Whyte, with whom Alasdair collaborated on the New Approaches to Traditional Music residency last year, has a new album; 

we can now hear the title track from Matt Kivel’s album, Janus, produced by Alasdair - sounding promising.

And finally, a challenge to see if you can falsify proposition (a):

Looked for YouTube clips of Alasdair Roberts' 1st band Appendix Out. a) There isn't any. b) There is footage of appendices being taken out.

— Andrew Male (@Andr6wMale) October 23, 2015

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Occasional links 2015-01-11

The Phantom Band mentioned Alasdair in a recent interview:

There’s also a guest appearance by contemporary Scottish folk musician Alasdair Roberts on Tender Castle. “We like his music and he’s a pretty singular artist,” says Marquiss. “That one felt like it was completed in stages, it was built up like a collage with various elements added on. 

“We didn’t write it with the intention of having Ali sing on it but it seemed to work, there’s something about the vocal melody which had a gothic, folky element which suited him. It’s not a straight duet, so the confusion between his voice and Rick’s voice is also nice.”

You can just about see two of our man's fingers in this photo from his New Year's Day performance with Ross Whyte (foreground):

New Year's Day performance with Alasdair Roberts @ Greyfriar's Kirk, Edinburgh. Image courtesy of Woodend Barn. pic.twitter.com/mOTRQSUOHl

— Ross Whyte (@rosswhyte242) January 7, 2015

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The Furrow Collective have added a London date to their spring tour, not yet on their official website: 3 April at the Borderline.

Just before the German leg of that tour gets under way, Alasdair takes a brief detour to Tübingen on 21 January to resume with occasional collaborator Christoph Wagner. Wagner's website translates and paraphrases to:

Folk singers from England, Ireland, Scotland and the US enjoyed great popularity in West Germany's new cultural and political clubs in the seventies. 1974 saw the first 'Tübingen Folk & Liedermacher Festival' which subsequently developed into the largest folk festival in the Federal Republic, attracting thousands of fans. Music journalist Christoph Wagner traces the history of folk music movement in Baden-Württemberg. He will deliver a lecture illustrated with many historical pictures, with musical accompaniment from Alasdair Roberts, the son of Alan Roberts, who was one of the major folk activists in West Germany in the seventies.

The Scotsman reviews Alasdair's New Year's Day performance, with Ross Whyte as well as Chris Dooks:

some brooding folk song with gorgeously twisted and resonant electronic accompaniment from Alasdair Roberts and Ross Whyte; and, between songs, watched tantalising fragments of Chris Dooks’s Tiny Geographies series of films, drenched in the natural imagery, voices and landscape of Deeside.

Reviews of the new album are starting to appear:

MusiqueApp

Paul Pledger, Peekaboo

C.R. Sanderson, Ravechild

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Another burst of activity on the blog for the collaboration between Alasdair and Ross Whyte, from which the above video is just the most "share-friendly" example. Here's

Ross's description of the film

Alasdair's reflection on the lead-up to last Sunday's performance and the performance itself

Ross's parallel reflection complete with notes on the songs performed, which were

The Seasons

The Cruel Mother

Billy Taylor

False, False

Queen Victoria's Welcome to Deeside

The Baron of Brackley

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Occasional links 2014-10-26

There seems to be UK tour brewing in the spring, perhaps unsurprisingly with a new album on the racks by then, as listed on Alan Bearman's site. And at least one Furrow Collective date to boot.

The Sussex Express has a feature on this week's Black Huts festival in Hastings.

Final rehearsals for Sunday's gig with Alasdair Roberts http://t.co/7YAtWugHFG pic.twitter.com/bwB5bpDRxT

— Ross Whyte (@rosswhyte242) October 22, 2014

Any reports from tonight's performance and discussion would be very welcome.