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Alastair Savage has established an impressive CV across the worlds of classical, popular and folk music. A member of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra since 1997, he has also worked with many leading artists including Belle and Sebastian, Karen Matheson, Justin Currie, Ricky Ross and legendary Scottish band The Whistlebinkies. As a renowned fiddler and solo artist, he’s put out numerous albums. Tunes From The River, released in August 2022, is his sixth album, to date.

It features music composed by Savage over the past decade, presented in a mixture of studio and live and studio recordings. This collection of tunes is the final piece of a planned trilogy of albums following the unaccompanied fiddle album Alone With History (2016) and When Barley Reaches Shore (2018) which features long-term collaborators Euan Drysdale (piano and guitar) and Iain Crawford (double bass).

This final release in the trilogy again features Crawford and Drysdale alongside an impressive line-up of musicians on the Scottish folk scene. These include flautist Eddie McGuire, piper Rab Wallace, woodwind virtuoso Ewan Robertson and fiddler Pete Clark, alongside two celebrated Finish musicians, Vilma Timonen on kantele and Timo Alakotila on piano.

The title track, ‘Tunes From The River’, is dedicated to those lost in the Clutha Bar helicopter disaster in Glasgow in 2013; whilst ‘The Rocks Of Kilchoman’ is a tribute to those who lost their lives in the HMS Otranto shipping disaster off the coast of Islay towards the end of the First World War.

Other tunes on the album have been inspired by the Scottish islands of Skye, Harris and Lewis as well as Savage’s Ayrshire homeland. If you like your fiddle playing haunting, evocative and exceptionally beautiful then do check out the tunes on this album.

Tracks:
01 - Summer In Skye Suite Hawk Hill _ MacAskill’s Strathspey _ Tartan Hen _ Tattie-Bogle
02 - Kinshaldy
03 - Barry Robertson’s Jig _ Reel Time Rotterdam _ Barry Robertson’s Jig (Reprise)
04 - The Lights Of Home
05 - Hidden Shores Ardroil Beach _ The Blackhouse Village _ Morning Waves _ Beyond The Mist
06 - The Rocks Of Kilchoman
07 - Rab’s Rockin’ Reel
08 - The Road From Chicago _ Big Apple Monday
09 - The Piper’s Welcome _ Glasgow’s Salute To The Finns
10 - Leaving For America
11 - Tunes From The River _ St. Andrew’s Lament _ By The Clyde _ Glasgow Folk
12 - Whatever Yer Missin’

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