Glenn Kimpton

“Songs have very curious existences… they live lives of their own outside and beyond us”. So says American kind-of-folklorist Jake Xerxes Fussell, whose new long player is crafted from history and musical posterity. We got him started on his focus and listened in.

Dellar plays with many styles on this impressive album and the picking is so beautifully human throughout that it feels like an antithesis to many of the click-track recorded sessions we hear.

The beauty of ‘An Idea in Everything’ lies in its unhurried and profoundly mundane messages. Challenging art this album may be, but it is high and beautiful and superb, unlike anything I’ve ever heard. A very impressive achievement.

Ivan Drever and Friends was Recorded at Stromness Town hall and features a host of Orcadian musicians of note and guest appearances by Hazel and Jennifer Wrigley and more.