Albannach

[beloitpiper]

They're good, but there's a lot of better groups. Wolfstone, Rare Air, The Tannahill Weavers, and Deaf Shepherd all have amazing pipers!! I won't even metion the Battlefield Band. Have you heard the tune The Canongate Twitch? Mike Katz is brilliant!

[canawler]

They're good, but there's a lot of better groups. Wolfstone, Rare Air, The Tannahill Weavers, and Deaf Shepherd all have amazing pipers!! I won't even metion the Battlefield Band. Have you heard the tune The Canongate Twitch? Mike Katz is brilliant!

I have to respectfully disagree. Having seen a couple of the bands mentioned I have to say Albannach is a totally different type of sound so it's like comparing apple to oranges. It's hard to describe the difference but Albannach's sound is more "tribal" or "guttural" in nature. It makes the audience respond in a different way than the other bands. The Tannahill Weavers don't get the entire audience jumping up and down to the beat. Albannach does. I have only seen one other band get the audience as worked up as Albannach can. I'm not saying that the other bands aren't as good, just that they couldn't play Albannach's music style as well and Albannach couldn't play their's nearly as well.

[Oldhiker]

Do we know their tour schedule for this summer in USA?

I have the album and it is well produced, they mellow out the rawness of the audio your hear on the vidoes. it is quite stiring music. I believe their motto is keep it tribal.

I highly recommend the album, I play it often on the way to work. Kind of like the movie Apoclypse Now with Wagner music on the chopper as the attack from the sunrise. Is that a weird anaology??? anyway it is better than a cup of starbucks to wake you up. And I dare anybody to cut me off in traffic while I am listening to Albanch.

I will raise my Claymore high and smite them.

[Mike1]

Donnie has won his share of Scotland's piping competitions, so it's a struggle to make him out to be chopped liver.

[Pour1Malt]

they arr brilliant!

tribal an poowerfou!

an if ya like them check oot-

Saor Patrol

http://www.saorpatrol.com/saor_patrol.htm

[morrison]

Lot of drumming!

[RK-REX]

Do we know their tour schedule for this summer in USA?

I have the album and it is well produced, they mellow out the rawness of the audio your hear on the vidoes. it is quite stiring music. I believe their motto is keep it tribal.

I highly recommend the album, I play it often on the way to work. Kind of like the movie Apoclypse Now with Wagner music on the chopper as the attack from the sunrise. Is that a weird anaology??? anyway it is better than a cup of starbucks to wake you up. And I dare anybody to cut me off in traffic while I am listening to Albanch.

I will raise my Claymore high and smite them.

The tour schedule is here, but the site is being updated as of today.

http://www.albannachonline.com/


And yes, I can see what you're saying even though I don't have the album yet. Their music appeals to me in a way that few things do. Like it strikes a chord deep, deep in my mind. Almost primal in a way. I'm thinking it's perfect warm up music for a rugby match.

[Pour1Malt]

They're good, but there's a lot of better groups. Wolfstone, Rare Air, The Tannahill Weavers, and Deaf Shepherd all have amazing pipers!! I won't even metion the Battlefield Band. Have you heard the tune The Canongate Twitch? Mike Katz is brilliant!

ya arr sae wrang wee lad...

drums and pipes- that is a' ai need arr want...

ya add guitars, fiddles, arr keyboards (gasp )

an ya have ruined a perfectly guid thing!

[Rusty]

ya arr sae wrang wee lad...

drums and pipes- that is a' AI need arr want...

ya add guitars, fiddles, arr keyboards (gasp )

an ya have ruined a perfectly guid thing!

I respectfully disagree with you there. I went to a concert in Estes Park last year and an Aussie band called "Brother" opened for Seven Nations. Talk about tribal.... these guys had a keyboard and a digereedoo and they were great. But then again Wolfstone is an entirely different class of band.

[beloitpiper]

ya arr sae wrang wee lad...

drums and pipes- that is a' ai need arr want...

ya add guitars, fiddles, arr keyboards (gasp )

an ya have ruined a perfectly guid thing!

I dunno... I mean, don't get me wrong, Albannach and Wicked Tinkers are good, but I enjoy the musical skill required to put together guitar, fiddle, bagpipes, drums. I mean, I could go out on campus right now, round up a few guys and give them African drums, pull out my pipes, and we could play an Albannach song. But if you listen to something like Bodachan A Gharaidh by the Battlefield Band or Islay's Charms by Deaf Shepherd or Clueless by Wolfstone, you'll hear very skilled musicians at their best coming together to make a complex, yet pleasant, sound that interweaves traditional Scottish folk music with newer ideas and themes.

Just my opinion...