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The sad reality lies not with colour, creed or accent but in understanding culture and its environment. Of course even crusties are good friends to the poor and I would rather live with them than the British Cabinet. It is a common misconception of urban-folk, that people in rural areas have a quaint way of life that's totally oblivious to the current globalisation. Many of these "new" grains have also been genetically enhanced to resist harsher insecticides and poorer ground fertility. My previous album, Bothy Culture , was written for the sit-down aural experience. A new brand of dance music created firmly in Scotland. They live in South Uist in the Outer Hebrides and have a son.

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By using this site, you agree to the Terms harcland Use and Privacy Policy. This is not to say we wish to force any kind of stereotype or Nationalism: This page was last edited on 18 Octoberat In I was working on a follow-up to Bothy Culture when a disastrous computer crash wiped out the entire album and several theatre and commission projects I was working on. This was fantastically refreshing for me and I really took to his approach of "clearing a space for simplicity".

Playing King Martny and Barrowlands in Glasgow, the Liquid Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival, a couple of big outdoor gigs in Spain and a huge turn out of mqrtyn, at the Cambridge Folk Festival were enormously helpful in releasing the album independently.

Retrieved from " https: I recognise the inevitability of this reality, and although I strongly oppose the idea of narrow Nationalism, I would be lying if I said that I didn't feel a great sense of loss at the apparent dilution of such a rich culture by a global one. The lovely lyrical tune on guitar and strings was written by Martin Low for his daughter Ruby and his wife Sheena. It is also a very positive sounding album, full of life and light.

Most of the changes that have taken place in rural areas have done so because young people no longer see any dynamics in their area and have already had a taste of "urban freedom". It was performed by Rory Pierce from Derrygonnelly in Co.

As anyone who has been to see them live will tell you: We also noticed that because of this unfortunate label loads of colourful crusties would turn up at gigs and I kept wanting to dish out the soap. Dance music is evolving so rapidly, that it became our conscious decision not to try and emulate any particular dance genre and focus instead on making it sound 'Hard and Scottish'. It is also not widely known that many wheat-types cause many health problems due to the fact that we, as a species, have not evolved enough to process their complex sugar carbohydrates.

Unfortunately everyone I asked about it told me that it was a traditional tune and I received a nice email from the composer asking me politely for a credit so that he could collect his PRS royalties.

This s folk album-related article is a stub. Many of the tunes are in unusual time signatures generally compound with themes and florid variations.

Martyn Bennett: Hardland

I did them for kartyn only and not for fashion or anything else. As a fashion statement Hardland does not follow current trends. He is a true artist - perfecting his art by candle-light and is, in my opinion, one of the finest pipers the world has ever seen.

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Martyn Bennett and Martin Low. It is for this reason that I have chosen to focus on the positive and hardcore element of rural Scotland in my work - those who understand and appreciate the behnett and its ways no matter whether they were born there or not - with the hope, that in time, the land itself will produce a generation that has come full circle.

Views Read Edit View history. Hardland, to some, may be "the difficult third album" but I believe it makes an important statement about how old benjett can survive.

It was turning into quite a interesting meeting. The voices in the background were recorded randomly on a vintage Robertson wireless that was madtyn in the studio " I cut them off in because I started getting labelled as "the Dreadlocked Bagpiper".

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Of the album, Bennett says, "As a fashion statement Hardland does not follow current trends. I know what the animal is, but I really don't know how it got there I think that the next album Glen Lyon will soothe peoples ears again, delight traditionalists, and keep Bothy Culture lovers happy, however I hope that GRIT will clarify Hardland's mission to push traditional music into the 21 century.

My previous album, Bothy Culturewas written for the sit-down aural experience. PLAY My favourite track on the album.

Mind you - Celtic's Henrik Larsson, the man with the Golden Boots, also used to have hardoand and you should look at a picture of him and me together - freaky.