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David Allison, Allan Neave & Ian Melrose with special guest Alyth McCormack The Island Tapes
Friday 20th January 2006, 8.00pm
The Arches : The Arches
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Given that David Allison’s richly layered music, created by a unique live looping technique, has been likened by the Scotsman to “painting with sound”, it’s only appropriate that the Glasgow guitarists’ latest project should involve a strong visual element. Specially created for Celtic Connections, The Island Tapes features screenings of four silent documentaries from the Scottish Screen Archive, recording life on St Kilda, Skye, Orkney and Shetland in the 1920s and 30s. These form the backdrop to the premiere of a potently atmospheric live score, composed and performed by Allison in collaboration with leading classical guitarist Allan Neave, Berlin-based fingerstyle maestro Ian Melrose – former lead guitarist with Clannad – and the superb Gaelic singer Alyth McCormack. With the films depicting traditional activities from peat-cutting to the famously no-holds-barred Orcadian Yuletide ritual of the Ba’ hand-ball game, the music will reflect both the timeless and the changing rhythms of island lives and landscapes. And with three top guitarists meeting from such contrasting backgrounds, the show certainly looks set to fulfil Allison’s promise of “acoustic guitar taken to the limit – in all directions.”
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