All Dressed in Yellow - our new cd is available to buy from us now - recorded in British Grove Studio, London.
"a ground-breaking recording... delivered in the now trade mark Bid style" Shetland Times
Fiddlers˚ Bid are internationally respected as leading exponents of their unique musical heritage and rich fiddle tradition and are global ambassadors for Shetland. A dynamic four fiddle front line joins with a powerhouse of piano, bass, guitar and Scottish harp to create a display of stunning virtuosity.
Since their formation in 1991, the "flying fiddles and furious talent" of Fiddlers Bid have astounded audiences all over the world with their expressive, high energy music and performance. "Beware: Fiddlers Bid is infectious and habit-forming."
Hello hello!
Our new cd is here! Let us tell you a bit about it all....
We took a different route to reach the music in our new cd by way of having special band rehearsal trips in exciting locations to work on the music together - none other than the islands of Unst (Shetland), Søtra (Norway) and the village of Gartmore near Glasgow.
We are sure this helped the music come together and it was a great laugh at the same time as being inspirational - it was tough work sitting in the hot tub and then jumping straight into the freezing north sea in Norway! (you can draw your own conclusions when you hear the cd!!).
Then we went to a top recording studio - British Grove in London under the brilliant guidance of engineer Calum Malcolm.
So, here it is folks, we hope you will be as excited about this as we are. It's been a lot of hard work to get this to you in this form but we are really proud of it.
There are a lot of stories to go with all of the music - hope we can share some at the gigs and via our website which is getting an overhaul right now and should be good to have a look at in a few weeks or so.
www.fiddlersbid.com
Best wishes to you and thanks for stopping by.
Take the oar and stay strong!
Fiddlers˚ Bid
Fiddlers˚ Bid play All Dressed in Yellow at the Shetland Fiddle Frenzy 2009!
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends! We've added two blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our page. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too. We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy. Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other. We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large. What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
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