Still a blast of fresh air. Profoundly influential late-50s, early-60s recordings of rare southern English harmony singing from the Copper Family, which can trace its roots in traditional song back at least two hundred years. Gems about labour, nature, sex, beer, the weather, wandering… Hard Times Of Old England is here.

With Matt Sweeney.

Live in Scotland with Alex Neilson and Harem Scarem.

Back in business, with his best outing for a while, this is class.
Fine songwriting, steeped in its own version of Americana (Don Williams, late Elvis), and richly produced.

This is terrific; warmly recommended.

‘Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes; a bellows-blown, mellower cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes. A native Gaelic speaker, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. She rose to prominence as a prodigy of traditional music, but has since begun a journey to take the smallpipes into unchartered territory. She has devised a unique way or arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument;  the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing virtuosic liquidity. She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, but her most recent album brings in influence from ambient, avant garde and electronic music.’