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Ewan MacPherson

Norther

£10 - includes download!

Debut solo album from Ewan MacPherson, one of Scotland's up and coming new artists. Ewan is involved right at the forefront of the wave of celtic and nordic music on the Scottish scene, check out his myspace page for details of who he has been working with lately.

1. Quiet Society
2. Norther
3. All the kings
4. Beachcomber
5. Travelling In Winter
6. Winter Me
7. Windscreen Conversation
8. Cold Summer Son
9. Easy Days
10. Nearly Home
11. Year Tired
 

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Ewan's Myspace:- macphersonmusic

Ewan MacPherson

Although he was born in Liverpool, Ewan has always been most at home in the countryside. He was brought up in a beautiful river-valley in North Wales, an inspiring place where his love of music and especially simple, strong songs began. He moved back to the city in 1996, to be one of the first ever students at Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Accepted on the strength of his singing and song-writing talents, Ewan worked on many aspects of his music, graduating with a BA (hons) in 1998.

After moving for a time to Oxford, where he became involved in the English folk scene and a short-lived band with John Spiers (now of Bellowhead), Ewan went to Edinburgh to seek out the musicians who were inspiring him with their innovative approach to traditional music and crossover. On arriving in the city he didn't know a soul, so spent a lot of time playing on the local folk scene, learning from the wealth of talent in the town and working on his mandolin, banjo and guitar playing.

Since then things have changed, after making many new friends and having many great nights of music, Ewan is now regarded as one of the scene's most versatile multi-instrumentalists. He has toured in Canada, America and throughout Europe, he's worked on many different levels with a host of roots artists from Scotland and beyond, including: Malinky, The Battlefield Band, Fribo, Croft no 5, Fine Friday, Emily Smith, Seamus Egan, Alasdair White, Ranarim, Burach, Daimh, Maeve Mackinnon, Claire Mann and Lori Watson.

After following so many different paths through jazz to heavy metal, tripped-out electronica grooves to hardcore trad banjo and Scots song, Ewan has gone full-circle, back to his own roots and the place where his music began.

Besides enjoying many different, inspiring musical experiences over the last ten years, Ewan has been quietly writing and collecting songs that are relevant to his own life, in 2007 he decided it was time give these songs a voice. July saw him start work on an album funded by a Scottish Arts Council grant and along with some of his favourite musician friends he embarked on a two-week recording session in one of his favourite places, the Isle of Skye.

The result is an album called 'Norther', a word used to describe a sudden cold gale that sweeps down from the north "out of the Panhandle under a blue-black sky", followed by bright, fresh light. 'Norther' is what you are if you live somewhere cold or where you get to if you drive in the right direction