Pleased to present this new track, recorded at home during this first period of being at home all the time! (April 2020)
The first melody, Breizh, I've played for many years and was written by Fred Morrison, the acclaimed Scottish piper. The second tune I've known for a long time too, a tale of revenge from a age long gone. A Flame of Wrath for Squinting Patrick was composed by Donald Mor Macrimmon.
Hope you enjoy the music!
Old Woman's Lullaby, a traditional Scottish melody from the bagpipe piobaireachd tradition, arranged by Fraser and Lolanders, recorded in Rotterdam, June '19.
'Punja B', a composition by Oene Van Geel played by the Lolanders live at Injazz, Rotterdam in June 2019
Excellent comment on one of our recent Lolanders performances in Netherlands, of which more news soon...
http://www.jazzenzo.nl/?e=4232
"Een geslaagde fusie tussen jazz en world vormt het optreden van het sextet Lo-Landers. De bezetting bevat bekende namen als altviolist Oene van Geel, doedelzakspeler Fraser Filield, gitarist Graeme Stephen, basgitarist Mark Haanstra en percussionist Udo Demandt. Het enthousiasme spat van de muziek af en de doedelzak van Fifield – die ook op pennywhistle is te horen -…
Read morepart of our arrangement of 'The Old Woman's Lullaby', a tune I learnt in the Scottish Bagpipe style known as Piobaireachd.
we really enjoyed visiting and performing at Nijmegan Music Festival ... a great setting in the trees, the attentive audiences made us feel very welcome.
We're now looking forward to the next few gigs round England - Bath, Sheffield, Ambleside, Newcastle - and one in Glasgow Jazz Festival, plus Bimhuis, Amsterdam and Rotterdam Injazz Festival. Would be great to see you over the next weeks of June if you're in those areas
CELTIC ROOTS ENSEMBLE are happy to be performing on 3rd June in Bergen International Festival,
while
LOLANDERS are performing extensively in June in the UK and Netherlands and are equally, if not more, happy about this:
7th June: Durham Jazz Festival
https://www.musicdurham.org/djazz-the-durham-city-jazz-festival/
8th June : Nijmigen Music Meeting
19th June: Jazz at The Lescar, Sheffield
http://www.jazzatthelescar.com
20th June: Zefirelli's Jazz Bar, Ambleside
Read moreThe first melody I self-assembled was in 1987, intended for the Highland Bagpipe, it's a reel in four parts named after my maternal Grandfather, John (Ian) Davidson of Garlogie, Skene. The tune's title refers to a nickname given locally on account (hopefully) of his polymath approach to life post WW2 upon returning to Aberdeenshire as self-taught repairer of clocks and watches, maker of off-grid electricity, wine, guns and four children. The title refers also to the local legend of the (Wizard) Laird of…
Read moreLoLanders from nigel slee on Vimeo.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/17379775.keith-bruce-in-praise-of-chamber-music/
"....Two days later, in the neighbouring Strathclyde Suite, came the debut of another new Scots-born chamber ensemble, this one combining musicians supported by Dutch Performing Arts with three locals: Hardeep Deerhe on tabla, jazz guitarist Graeme Stephen and the whistle and pipes of Fraser Fifield. There was groove-aplenty from the LoLanders too – no matter whose composition was on the music stand, these experience…
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