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Air Iomall

Rating: ★★★★

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Album and Artist Details

Artist/band:

Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach

Label:

Braw Sailin' Records

October/2019

This is the kind of album that leaves you wanting to hear the whole CD again immediately without having to press repeat. Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach are the fiddler and accordionist with young Highland group Tannara, and for this extracurricular project they've kept things very simple, musically at least. It's actually the soundtrack to a film that documents their voyage in a tall ship around some of Scotland's remotest islands. Grey's fiddle and Peach's accordion, piano, harmonium and chiming dulcitone – with guitar accompaniment on the two more rakish, uptempo tracks – capture landscapes, flora and fauna with lovely understatement and beautiful expression.

On the live concert that makes up track seven, they reprise five of the six previous ones more expansively but maintain the discipline that sees Grey playing with touches ranging from feathery to steely and adding gorgeous glissandi. It's all their own music and has its own enigmatic yet deeply involving style, but anyone who enjoys The Gloaming, Angus Lyon & Ruaraidh Campbell or Andy Cutting & Chris Wood can approach with confidence.

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