aidan o’rourke

Since 1996 The Scots Fiddle Festival has been promoting and sharing traditional Scots fiddle music. In its 20 years, the number of events organised by the volunteer committee has tripled, and this year over 40 musicians will present 50 events over the space of just one weekend in Edinburgh.

We have a very special premiere today from new duo Aidan O’Rourke (Lau) and Kit Downes (Trokya/Squarepusher). This new demo has come straight from the studio and is also our Tune of the Day.

This weeks mix finds a strong Scottish contingent including two of Lau’s players with tracks from Aidan O’Rourke’s latest Imprint (E.P Series 2.0) and Martin Green’s Flit. Also included are two tracks from recently reviewed albums from Trail West and Iona Fyfe Band. Alongside these are some personal favourites that we’ve covered in the past as well as new offerings from The Driftwood Manor and Nick Jonah Davis’ House of …

Admiral Fallow teamed up with the chamber ensemble Auricle Ensemble at Celtic Connections this year for a very special performance at Glasgow’s Mackintosh Church. Watch them performing Bomb Through The Town.

Listen to the full stream of Imprint, the second in a series of EPs from the internationally acclaimed multi award winning Scottish fiddler, composer and producer Aidan O’Rourke.

Siobhan Wilson’s Say It’s True was recorded in Glasgow with the help of some very talented friends and offers a collection of hopes and sorrows, dressed in some of the finest tunes you could wish for. You could say it’s truly beautiful.

The first of what promises to be a varied set of EPs, Music For Exhibition & Film finds Aidan O’Rourke in visionary mode. Music to file under electronic meditations and could be described as visionary in that it plays on your mind’s eye and promotes visions and as such lives up to its title admirably. The mental movie is yours for the making.

Exclusive – Lau’s new album The Bell That Never Rang released 4/5/2015 and interview with Aidan, Kris and Martin and the albums producer Joan As Policewoman.

The band Kan which includes members Aidan O’Rourke and Brian Finnegan have sadly announced they are to stop playing for the forseeable future. We have a special tune of the day from them.

With the next Lau-Land up in Edinburgh now less than a month away we talk to Aidan O’Rourke about the bill and plans for this latest instalment of their unique, portable, curated weekend festival.

Our Song of the Day is a new track from Aidan O’Rourke (Lau) taken from a soundtrack for Dalziel and Scullion’s multi-screen film installation Tumadh: Immersion.

In part 5 of our Best Albums of 2013 we feature Lal Waterson, Lisa Knapp, The Full English, Dan Haywood, The R.G. Morrison, Ruth Theodore, Barrule, Aidan O’Rourke and more.