The Trufflehunters – album review

Our local arts mag, the ICA, have reviewed my other band’s new album.

Here it is:

The Trufflehunters – Signs of Life

“More admirable ambition. Local trio of singer Shona MacDonald, painter Allan MacDonald and Calamateur’s Andrew Howie have got together to make a richly textured thing of some beauty, inspired by a combination of Highlands folk, plain song, chant and the strict Presbyterian tradition of unaccompanied psalm singing.

If you saw Phil Cunningham’s documentary on the history of religious song you’ll recognise some of the roots of what’s going on here, but it’s transformed into a genuinely transcendent whole. Check out thetrufflehunters.co.uk for more.”

You can hear some tracks from the album here.

You can buy the CD directly from us here or from CDBaby here.

Or you can download it from itunes here.

My other band is a…..

I’m going to take a quick break from my series of posts on Commissions & Collaborators to tell you a wee bit about my other band…..The Trufflehunters.

I’ve kept pretty quiet on the blog about this so far, but for the last couple of years I’ve been working with two very talented musicians – brother & sister Allan & Shona MacDonald – and our new and debut album is out this week:

We’re calling ourselves The Trufflehunters and the album is entitled ‘Signs of Life’. Allan writes the songs, Shona sings them and I recorded and play on them.

You can hear some tracks from the album here.

You can buy the CD directly from us here or from CDBaby here.

Or you can download it from itunes here.

More soon….