Alastair Savage: Secrets From The Kitty CD

SAV003CD released 2012

Alastair Savage - Fiddle

Euan Drysdale - Guitar & Piano

Iain Crawford - Double Bass

• Winter Blue [4:58]

• Late for the Lansdowne / Granny Bell's Real / Moggi [6:15]

• A Vanishing Way of Life [4:25]

• One Chance to Celebrate [4:22]

• Let the Afternoon Go [5:21]

• Andover Market [3:02]

• Alright With You [3:09]

• One of those Weeks / Snow Reel [4:43]

• Evening Song [3:20]

• Bottles and Friends [5:01]

“This third album of compositions from fiddler Alastair Savage, who inhabits both folk and classical worlds, combines some spectacular fireworks with a feel for sweet melancholy. His accomplished fiddling is ably complemented by his regular sidemen, double-bassist Iain Crawford and Euan Drysdale on piano and on a bluesy acoustic guitar which breaks out in the hoedown of Winter Blue and the hard-driving One of Those Weeks set. Occasionally I felt I was listening to fiddle pyrotechnics rather than tunes that will stick, but I particularly enjoyed A Vanishing Way of Life, with its mysterious fiddle harmonics and elegiac piano and fiddle suggesting the soundtrack of a sad film, before a high-tension percussive bridge leads into an explosion of energy in One Chance to Celebrate. Savage also plays with great soul in the resonant double-stopping of Alright With You and duets beautifully with piano in the plaintive Evening Song.” (Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman, 25/06/2012)