Based on the Isle of Skye, the Peatbog Faeries released their debut album, "Mellowosity" in 1996 to high critical acclaim. Sue Wilson of The Scotsman newspaper wrote "Powerful melodies are dextrously pumped out with a smart degree of techno attitude, while cross-rhythms ricochet over a heavy bass that hits you forcefully like a massive heart beat. Raggae, dub and soca rhythms all play their part with a lot of gorgeously undulating modal melodies from Macedonia and further." This is high octane Celtic dance music.
The Band Peter Morrison - Pipes & Whistles Ben Ivitsky - Fiddles Ali Pentland - Guitar Nurudin - Technics SX-WSA 1 Acoustic Modelling Synthesizer & Keyboards Innes Hutton - Bass & Bodhran Iain Copeland - Drums & Percussion
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Powerful melodies are dextrously pumped out with a smart degree of techno attitude, while cross-rhythms ricochet over a heavy bass that hits you forcefully like a massive heart beat. ..
Nothing in the recognisable front line of bagpipes, fiddle, synthesiser, bass & rhythm guitar with a straight drum kit at the back, prepares you for the high octane music the Peatbog Faeries create. Powerful melodies are dextrously pumped out with a smart degree of techno attitude, while cross-rhythms ricochet over a heavy bass that hits you forcefully like a massive heart beat. Reggae, dub & soca rhythms all play their part with a lot of gorgeously undulating modal melodies from Macedonia and further, so the packed audience who crowd around the stage can almost salsa as well as perform the high-jumping ceilidh moves such music encourages. With no time wasted with chat other than the odd tune title, the band induce an uninhibited joy. One sylph-like woman, hair reaching well below her bottom, sinuously undulated all night, removing items of clothing as the place & pace gets hotter until she is in quasi-belly dance garb. Sexy is not a word normally associated with Celtic music but this certainly is.
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