Willow
Recorded in May of 2013 at Hexagon studio in Calgary. Flute player Jeff Pelletier and percussionist Kyle Eustace join me on this album which features songs and instrumentals with the themes of home, nature and love. Voice, lever harp, plucked psaltery, guitar, flute, bass flute, tom, tambourine, and shaker. The album consists mainly of my own compositions along with traditional songs from medieval England, Hebridean Scotland, Germany, and Japan.
1. Willow
3. Scandibalt/Spin the Web
4. Blessing
7. Fuweles in the Frith (birds in the wood)
8. Shigure (late Autumn quiet rain)
9. Imbolc
12. Kein Feuer, keine Kohle (no fire, no coal)
13. Spiral Dance
Awen
Awen was recorded in 2002 at Christ Church Anglican in Calgary. Engineered by Mark Ellestad, it was recorded live, straight to disc. This is a single point stereo recording using a jeklin disc and two spaced omnidirectional microphones relying on placement of musicians relative to the microphones for balance and the natural acoustic of the church.
I composed eighteen of the songs, drawing inspiration from the changing seasons and improvisational explorations. The balance of the tracks are traditional songs from Iceland, England, Wales, and medieval Italy.
2. Hægt í Dögun
3. The Hunt
4. Robin is to the Greenwood Gone
5. Searching for Lambs
6. The Dowry
7. Odd Rhythm
9. Lament of Tristan
10. Gaia
11. Summer Waltz
12. Joy
13. Weary Cutters
14. Epiphany
15. Eryri Wen
16. Elegy
17. Hrafninn Flýgur
18. Storm Call
20. Green Grass it Grows Bonny
21. The Path
22. The Prodigal
23. Gamall Húsgangur
25. Sunfall
27. Evensong
The Weaving
The Weaving is my second album. It was recorded in 1997, once again with Richard Harrow at Living Room Studios. The fifteen tracks consist of traditional songs from Scotland, England, Ireland, The Isle of Man, Germany, and medieval France, as well as five of my own compositions.
1. Edo Lullaby/The Weaving
2. Down by the Salley Gardens
3. Danse Royale
4. The Watcher
5. Are Ye’ Sleepin’ Maggie?
6. Huree Huroo
7. How Cold the Wind Doth Blow
9. Billy Be Fair
10. Mit Lust tät ich Ausreiten
11. The Washing Song
12. Faerie Pavane
13. The Lark in the Clear Air
The Call
The Call was my first recording. It was recorded in 1994 at Living Room Studios with Richard Harrow. The thirteen tracks consist of traditional songs from England, Ireland, and Scotland, as well as a song by Tommy Makem (Four Green Fields), a setting of Yeats’ poem “Rider From the North”, and four of my own compositions.
*The Call is currently out of circulation
Come By the Hills
3. Rider from the North
4. Spotted Cow
5. Peace River
6. Rowan Grove
8. Down by the Greenwood Side
10. Four Green Fields
11. The Great Silkie
12. Cronachan
13. Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?
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