Album Review: Ailie Robertson
Published Date:
29 June 2008
By NORMAN CHALMERS
AILIE ROBERTSON
First Things First
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Lorimer Records LORRCD1, £10.99
These innovative, assured and beautiful arrangements place the young Edinburgh harpist at the forefront of the current evolutionary surge in Scottish musical technique and accomplishment.
It's not just the molten fingering in the flying, percussively driven reels and dance grooves, or the relaxed precision in clever variations of traditional pipe tunes. But it's especially in the slow and medium tempos, as in the re-paced 'Favourite Dram' with James Ross's arresting piano chords, that her harp exerts its undeniable and inexorable tug at the heart strings.
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The full article contains 103 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
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Last Updated:
27 June 2008 8:26 PM
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Source:
Scotland On Sunday
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Location:
Scotland
