Robin Laing

Produced by Tom Clelland and Kris Koren: with settings principally by Tom Clelland and Robin Laing, and single songs by Davie Scott, Don Dougal, John Malcolm, and Duncan McCrone. The music is played by the composers and friends, a good sampler of the Scottish folk scene.
The CD also includes Wendy Weatherby’s arrangement (for cello, fiddle, harp and penny whistle) of Stevenson’s “Aberlady Links” and is accompanied by a 28-page colour booklet of the poems with artwork by Peter Nardini. The style is basically gentle Celtic folk with voice, harp and guitars plus other string instruments (notably Wendy Weatherby’s soulful cello) and occasional North American hints (in Tom Clelland’s tracks). Davie Scott’s ‘The Land of Counterpane’ is an appropriately dreamy piece accompanied by a moody piano line; Tom Clelland’s ‘Escape at Bedtime’ has a nice ‘milling’ guitar to imitate the stars and an added clarinet to bring mystery.… (mais)