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“an eclectic mix of Eastern European and Celtic Music… wonderful”
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"incredible... a brilliant pair of musicians"
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Morag and Lewis play a rich repertoire of acoustic instrumental music from Scottish traditions along with many others. They have been performing together for over a decade, both as a duo and as part of larger ensembles. Their shared intuition and love of spontaneity allows them to freely move between melody, harmony and improvisation.
Lewis performs with accordion, cittern, guitar and bouzouki, and Morag plays fiddle and five-string fiddle. Both musicians have performed extensively with bands playing music from the Balkans, Greece and beyond, and have pursued these musical interests in depth over the years. It is this tangle of influences and experiences that nourish and bring colour to their work as a duo, and it is their familiarity with each other that allows their music to unravel anew on each playing. With empathy, and sensitivity, Lewis and Morag make a conversation of every performance: musician to musician, performers to listeners, and back again. In one moment their music might be heard to draw deeply on their Scottish and Celtic heritage, the next to slip into a sound which is altogether eclectic. Together, they speak their music with one voice.
As lovers of the energy and spontaneity and the ‘re-creation’ of their music that comes with each live performance, then much of the duo’s creative output has gone somewhat under the radar, existing no longer than the moment of its making. It was the live performance vacuum of the pandemic that finally drew out an album recording from the pair - a distillation of the music they'd been brewing for over a decade.
AULD SPRINGS NEW is Morag and Lewis's debut album and is OUT NOW!
Lewis performs with accordion, cittern, guitar and bouzouki, and Morag plays fiddle and five-string fiddle. Both musicians have performed extensively with bands playing music from the Balkans, Greece and beyond, and have pursued these musical interests in depth over the years. It is this tangle of influences and experiences that nourish and bring colour to their work as a duo, and it is their familiarity with each other that allows their music to unravel anew on each playing. With empathy, and sensitivity, Lewis and Morag make a conversation of every performance: musician to musician, performers to listeners, and back again. In one moment their music might be heard to draw deeply on their Scottish and Celtic heritage, the next to slip into a sound which is altogether eclectic. Together, they speak their music with one voice.
As lovers of the energy and spontaneity and the ‘re-creation’ of their music that comes with each live performance, then much of the duo’s creative output has gone somewhat under the radar, existing no longer than the moment of its making. It was the live performance vacuum of the pandemic that finally drew out an album recording from the pair - a distillation of the music they'd been brewing for over a decade.
AULD SPRINGS NEW is Morag and Lewis's debut album and is OUT NOW!
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Header and album artwork: Enya Powell-Taylor
Photo credit: Jessica Ramm
Photo credit: Jessica Ramm
