Alistair Anderson - Steel Skies [CD]

Alistair Anderson - Steel Skies (CD NEW) Jewel Case Packaging

Label: Topic Records
Format: CD
Release Date: 17 Nov 2009

Brand New

Album Tracks

1. First Light/Rhymeside 1-2/The Mountain Stream/Rhymeside 3/First Light
2. The Road to the North/Clennel Street/The Franklin River
3. The Air for Maurice Ogg/Jumping Jack/The Air for Maurice Ogg
4. Green Ginger
5. The Ironbridge/Eynhollow
6. In Trim/Mount Hooley/Lemington Bank
7. The Kestrel/High Force/Dog Leap Stairs/Hot Rivets/The Seven Gate Road
8. When the Frosts Are Setting in
9. East Winds/Millstream/Centanary Pack

Alistair Anderson's "Steel Skies" is a suite for traditional instruments led by his concertina and Northumbrian pipes. This is new music but with it's roots deep in the traditional music of the British Isles. Scored for a group of musicians including fiddles, flutes, mandolins and Alistair Anderson's concertina and Northumbrian smallpipes, the compositions here take from the tradition but expand on it creating a complete whole. This wonderful album has a justly sterling reputation among those who have heard it, calling out for a re-release on CD. Alistair Anderson's mastery of the concertina is legendary, but it is the concept and the beauty of the music here that takes your breath away.