FOLK
RORY CAMPBELL: Intrepid
****

Widely admired as the piper/low whistle expert with Old Blind Dogs, Campbell is one of Scotland's trekkie pipers, boldly taking the instrument to new universes, while respecting his traditional background - his father is a respected Barra singer. The son also sings, and here gives us some in Gaelic and English, both traditional and self-penned, while the instrumental sets - on bellows pipes, and with Johnny Hardie's fiddle and Donald Hay's drums - move through continents, cultures and genres. This powerful music has a Scottish soul and an appealingly international outlook.

Norman Chalmers