Album Notes

EILEAN MOR has finally finished their second album, 'Left of the Sun'. This new album was a lot of fun to make and it felt great to be back in the studio again. Ed Rodrigues' drumming was incredibly spot on - there are no edits or overdubs at all in his playing! What you hear is basically exactly as he laid it down. Bill Grose is always full of the most lyrical ideas when it comes to accompanying the beautiful Gaelic songs and this too is amply demonstrated in our new album. Bill Williams' strong double bass playing always grooves along laying the solid foundations down and Catherine Fraser was in the recording studio playing her slow airs with plenty of emotion and the sizzling fast tunes with plenty of energy and passion. As for me Ruth Lee Martin well, it was such a great experience singing with such great musicians and with such great material that I really couldn't go far wrong. So the new album is now launched!

Our new album is called 'Left of the Sun' as it's a reference to an old Gaelic poetic phrase I came across from the days of sailing ships. On the journey sailing to Australia from Scotland these ships would steer to the left side of the sun. We seem to have focused on geographic references in our album titles as our last album was '35 Degrees South'!