leathaidean – Fells & MacGlone
You can listen preview of this album on this page. The album is also available on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. leathaidean by Fells & MacGlone leathaidean - Fells & MacGlone Leathaidean, meaning ‘slopes’ or ‘hillsides’ in Scottish Gaelic, is a series of improvisations for shakuhachi and double bass recorded in 2022. The music explores playing together as a series of encounters with zones and boundaries – textures and gradients, surfaces and resistances – with a spontaneous sense of purpose or direction, heading to and away from peaks, plateaus and troughs as they appear or fade from sight. The notion of ‘slopes’ or ‘hillsides’ then was a metaphor for the playing; walking, and the effort...