"From car-free but music-rich Easdale Island in Argyll, this collective (including Waterboy Steve Wickham) is formed round ex-Waterboy Colin Blakey, his wife [sic] Phil Bull and bass player Steve Brown and is evolving a hybrid of Scottish, European, Latin and even Oriental sounds. The eclectic, all-instrumental album's 12 tracks are Blakey compositions, shot through with joyful melody, often on various mouth and bellows-blown bagpipes - and if the drums could do with a spanner here and there, Phil's beautiful string playing, with hammered dulcimer player Kim Ho Ip, opens the kitchen door to the massive intoxicating sound of the eponymous 'Breakfast' - a wake-up call to the dead." Norman Chalmers..........Scotland on Sunday
Colin Blakey - piano, gaita Phil Bull - drum set, percussion Steve 'Wee' Brown - double bass, electric bass Stephen McNally - border pipes, gaita Paddy Martin - highland pipes, uilleann pipes, low whistle Kieran Gallagher - congas, berimbao, pots, bongos, caxixi Lorne Cowieson - flugelhorn Kim Ho Ip - yang qin Ron Blakey - clarinet Steve Wickham - violin
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Warm winter night music
Colin Blakey has assembled a bevy of musicians from across the world, including his fellow ex-Waterboy Steve Wickham, for a set of tunes recorded on Easdale Island in Argyll. Bagpipes and Uillean pipes abound, but things are warmed up by Blakey’s swinging piano and by Philippa Bull’s disciplined drumming. Best bits are ‘Auga’, where Blakey’s stepping piano and Bull’s loping reggae rhythms are joined by a clarinet solo from Ron Blakey, halfway between lament and Klezmer; and the dense title track, led by Kim Ho Ip’s hammered dulcimer. Warm winter night music
Quite simply some of the best Roots music I have heard in ages.
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