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Biography
Cairndhuna
New label Black Rock Music are delighted to have released their first CD - cairndhuna - an
album of new music from Scots songwriters Murray Bruce and John Mackie.
The music is instrumental - some say cinematic.
Evocative compositions and explorations of
a groove sit side by side on this CD. Two acoustic guitars, resonator slide, cello and
mandolin are used, in various combinations, over ten tracks. The album was recorded in
November 1998 at Heartbeat Sound in London and produced by Michael Klein, with whom
the boys were keen to work.
Both Murray and John have been writing and performing music since they were teenagers.
That would take us back to the late-seventies and Edinburgh bands the Scars (John on
bass) and Metropak (Murray on bass). Since then, they''ve collaborated many times and have
performed together in the ethereal Mani, renowned for their powerful live show, and the
compelling Afro-Caledonian sound of Bunnychow to name but two. Distilled from all this,
and more, is cairndhuna.
Melding influences from their native Scotland to the Mississippi Delta and back, by way of
a few stops around the Mediterranean, the cairndhuna sound is wide open and unfettered
by percussion or gratuitous heavyweight production. Just acoustic music vibrantly played
and beautifully recorded.
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