Up where Wester Ross slips into Sutherland and the sun sets over the Summer Isles, Ali Beag's melodeonis at the heart of this album, which will take you to Achiltibuie when you can't make the journey there.
Native favourites, old Gaelic waltzes, new tunes for old pals, swaggering local songs, and dance sets ringing with the pipes - it's a Coigach ceilidh in your living room.
Not sterile musical perfection, but with more life than organic yoghurt, the West Highland push-pull button accordion makes authentic, refreshing, affecting music for our increasingly homogenous world.
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