To The Drum Of The Sea
DONALD LINDSAY

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A COLLECTION OF PIPE MUSIC
COMPOSED BY ALEX MUIR
AND PERFORMED BY DONALD LINDSAY

Featuring the beautiful melodies of the Rev. Alex Muir, including the psalm tune 'The Bays of Harris'.

Donald is "a fresh face amongst the younger generation of professional Scottish musicians, Donald is a fine singer, and an excellent player of the mellow-toned Scottish smallpipes.

He is an inventive, creative performer, who is as comfortable collaborating with off-beat indie bands & jazz musicians as he is playing in the traditional setting of a bar room session or ceilidh. His love for the rich stories of traditional Scots balladry, and the intricate variation sets of traditional Border pipe music sit side by side with a love for many diverse strands of contemporary and traditional music and his talent as a songwriter & composer is gaining wide recognition." (The New Scottish Orchestra programme 2003)

TRACKS
1.  CLACHAN
The Fair Sands of Illeray (slow air), Hugh Matheson of Baleshare (4/4 march)
2.  BAYS OF HARRIS
3.  3/4 MARCHES
Farewell to Carinish (3/4 retreat), The Castle of Mey (3/4 retreat)
4.  FRIENDSHIP
Sollas (psalm 85), Stronsay (psalm 102)
5.  LANDSCAPES
The Lochs of North Uist (2/4 march), Over the Warth Hill (jig)
6.  CARINISH
7.  THE QUEEN MOTHER'S SET (march, strathspey & reel)
The Queen Mother's Welcome to the Mey Games (2/4 march), The Merry Men of Mey (strathspey), Groatie Buckies (reel)
8.  DONALD BAN OF KYLES FLODDA (6/8 march)
9.  INSPIRATION
Locheport (psalm 98), Lochmaddy (psalm 36)
10. DEDICATION
Addie & Isobel Harper of Wick (4/4 march), John MacDonald of Sidinish (2/4 march)
11. SLOW AIR & HORNPIPE
Ballantrushal (psalm 130), The Pentland Fisherman (hornpipe)
12. DUNCANSBY HEAD
Duncansby Head (song), Duncansby Head (9/8 retreat)

"very, very good" - The New Musical Express (Aug 2002)

"mellow toned piping ... captivates the listener" - Common Stock (piping journal)

"an extremely capable piper" - The Herald

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"Donald Lindsay is a young Scottish piper, a resident musician at Glasgow's famous piping center (and I can tell you folks you don't get there without being an exceptional talent). His main instrument is not the great Highland pipe of the marching band but the gentler sweeter sounding Scottish Small Pipes, which fit the intimate format of a CD and home Hi Fi system much better than a full on Pipe band marching through your living room or blowing the top off the old cabriolet."

"His repertoire too is unusual, Donald has transposed a great deal of Alex Muir's tunes for the small pipes and this gives us a fresh take on the Scottish tradition. Alex Muir is a retired Pastor (many of the tunes here were written while he held a Ministry in Caithness and North Uist) and his music is often (but not exclusively) inspired by Old Testament Psalms. The album is incidentally subtitled 'A very Special Collection of Pipe Music Composed by Alex Muir'."

"It's a brave musician who opens an album with a slow air (The Fair Sands of Allergy) and then follows it with a second track (The Bays of Harris) that was composed to fit the words of Psalm 63, (verse seven is truly uplifting, "Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice"), and Lindsay carries it off with ease, setting up a platform for a varied selection of thought provoking music, such as Inspiration, which features two tunes written for the 98th and 36th Psalms. It's not all pipes, Donald gives us two songs and track 6 allows Keith Easdale a free hand on the Low whistle (a very learnable slow air it is too called Carinish) ... later in the set, the pace picks up with The Merry Men of Mey (a Strathspey recalling the motion of the waves off St John's point), the set is rounded off with the all too short reel Groatie Buckles."

"With small pipes, cittern, low whistle, fiddle and guitar this album offers a musical texture rarely heard in Ireland. It's an interesting and uplifting album, and a welcome glance at another aspect of the Scottish piping tradition that is seldom heard on this side of the Celtic Sea."

Sean Laffey (June 2003)
IRISH MUSIC Magazine

catalogue numbers:
R2CD2012 (CD)