"Braes of Badentarbat" - cd by Ali Beag MacLeod & Kevin Macleod

[Loretta Callahan]

That's really lovely! Thanks for sharing the video!

[kmmando]

Thank, Loretta.
Glad you liked it!

Folk review
Ali ‘Beag’ MacLeod and Kevin Macleod
Braes of Badentarbat Beag Records beag cd002
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“Highland Music and Gaelic Verse from Coigach” is what it says on the tin and that’s what you get – the tar, brine and salty sunshine of the Summer Isles. Centred round Ali’s pungent melodeons and Kevin’s mandolin-family instruments are local wordsmiths, bards, artists, cousins and characters, featured in songs, tales, Gaelic poetry and tunes stretching back from today through the 19th century. Shooglenifty’s Luke Plumb and The Occasionals Freeland Barbour add their sure mark.

Norman Chalmers “Scotland on Sunday” July 11th 2010

The launch is this saturday in Coigach, if anyone's interested .....

[kmmando]

and now you can try Ali's distinctive Highalnd tunes, here in print for the very first time, with tales and anecdotes aplenty

http://www.footstompin.com/products/...f_coigach_book

slainte

Kevin Macleod

[Brent Hutto]

Thanks for the link, Kevin. I'll have to order that one up after Thanksgiving.

BTW, something I've been curious about lately. How do people in yours and/or Ali's neck of the woods pronounce the surname "Macleod"? Most of us Americans would say something like "Ma-Clowd" or even "Mac-Lowd" with an "OW" sound, same as we'd say there's a "cloud" in the sky...

[kmmando]

In english the latter is pretty much how it would sound.

In Gaelic, a native Gaelic speaker would prounounce it differently, and correctly, but I can't really write it out phonetically, as it's too subtle. As far as I am aware, Mac Leoid is the gaelic spelling for a man, Nic Leoid for a lady, mac being son of ... and nic being daughter of ....

I suppose it gets anglicised like everything else, especially European placenames Basel, Basle .....

hope you enjoy the book when you get it - there's some lovely stories in it!

kevin

http://vimeo.com/16791452

[Tosh Marshall]

Great stuff Kevin, if that doesn't get yer toes tappin', I don't know what will!!!! I'll order Ali's tunebook.....

[kmmando]

Tosh, thanks for that, it's a fun wee book.

Some of Ali's tunes are amongst the 9 short flims I've just uploaded onto vimeo here

http://vimeo.com/17056849

shot at the launch party of the cd this summer. The introduction to the poems and Sandy 'Boots' MacLeod's poem are really rather interesting, in a historical way.

best wishes
Kevin Macleod

[Tosh Marshall]

I got the book today Kevin, and it is great. I can't believe you have a fiddler up there named Yung Yung Kan!!!!! London yeah, but Coigach! Stories and anecdotes are fantastic. Footstompin were very swift with the delivery.....recommended.

[kmmando]

Excellent, Tosh, thanks for getting Ali's book. I hope you have fun with learning the tunes - I particularly like Willie "Stalker" Mathieson's jig. Ali's a great character, and it is good to let others hear his tales and anecdotes. The lifebelt artworks in the book are mae by Ali, by the way, and are really superb, three dimentional artworks.

Thanks a million
Kevin Macleod

[Tosh Marshall]

I can see why you like Willie 'Stalker' Kevin, very interesting piece, as are all the tunes in the book (waltzes, Strathspey's, Reels and Jigs). A great addition to the Scottish repertoire as well as a valuable insight into community life. Great stuff.

[kmmando]

Tosh, thanks! It's quite hard to raise the profile of such projects, so your comments are much appreciated by us.
I look forward to hearing or seeing youtube verisons of Ali's tunes by the likes of yourself!

Keeps one occupied during the heavy snow!
best wishes
Kevin

[Tosh Marshall]

Bloody hell, there's a challenge! I love Musical Flowers so I'll work on that and post it in the Song A Week Social Group when I have a decent enough take of it. It's a beautiful tune. It's been snowing in London today, but not heavy enough to cause any disruption! Freezing though! Yer can keep the heavy stuff up there!!!!!!

[kmmando]

..... here's 4 of 6 short sets from a wee gig we did recently, with my two great musical pals, Alec Finn and Freeland Barbour, united for the first time after all these years ....

http://vimeo.com/17494842

I'll put the other 2 sets up next week when I get my allocatiopn of space again.
KHJM

[kmmando]

all of the films are up on vimeo now ....

Merry Christmas to you all, and a great year of the mandolin in 2011

Kevin Macleod

[kmmando]

A final version short handmade film of the grand time we had in Coigach last year, and a wee visual thing I tried under Sandy 'Boots' MacLeod's excellent poem!


A good New Year to all.

Kevin Macleod

[kmmando]

..... here ..... woops!

vimeo.com/18326243

[kmmando]

[John Kelly]

Kevin, just found this thread and want to say how much I have enjoyed the music and the many postings which you have generated here. I live on the shores of The Holy Loch in Argyll and really enjoyed your last wee film here as backing to the poem, and the music is really superb. Must now make the effort to get recordings of your music. Hwv also enjoyed the Springwell trio videos you linked to.
Many thanks and have a great 2010. Maybe you will get across to Argyll one day soon?

[kmmando]

Thanks John, that particular piece of music I think you refer too was composed and played here by Luke Plumb. We used it under another Gaelic poem on the cd. Luke is an exceptional musician, and he made the whole project tick. Sandy's poem is a delight too.

It would be fun to meet one day! Somewhere down the dreel!

All the best
Kevin HJ Macleod

[kmmando]

"Braes of Badentarbat" and also "The Sands of Achnahaird"", the debut cd by Ali 'Beag' MacLeod are both now available as iTunes downloads.

http://www.footstompin.com/artists/a..._kevin_macleod

Lots of great North West Highland tunes and high jinks!

Ali's tunes can be got here

http://www.footstompin.com/products/...f_coigach_book

and a bit about the cds - and yes, there's mandolin and cboms on them

http://www.footstompin.com/products/...of_badentarbat

http://www.footstompin.com/products/..._of_achnahaird