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Harry Gorski-Brown
Gorski-Brown is a multi-instrumentalist (voice, pipes, fiddle, organ, bouzouki, electronics) who takes traditional Scottish Gaelic songs and rearranges them in the shape on his own imagination.
While these are new takes on old songs, they sound deeply rooted in the soil and stone, uncompromising in the way they’re presented; the shortest track is seven-and-a-half minutes, the longest, “Bha Mise Raoir Air An Àirigh/ I Wanna Fight Your Father” (which includes Gorski-Brown’s version of the Rubberbandits song that erupts almost like a bizarre breakdown out of the long instrumental piece to up and already high bizarre quotient) 12-and-a-half minutes. And yet, the pace and length someone suits the music. There’s a very large strand of minimalism to this music, always underpinned by the drone, the changes slight and slow.
An acquired taste, perhaps, odd yet definitely worth several listens for those who like to wander outside the mainstream. And, from one who spent too many hours fiddling with cassette tapes and pens (if you know, you know), good luck with the tape.
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