Description
A Wanton Fling is a CD from one of Scotland's premier bands - The Whistlebinkies. They are committed to traditional instrumentation and remain strictly acoustic while generating an electricity all of their own.
"Remains one of the most distinctive and thrilling sounds of the Scottish folk revival". The Scotsman.
The Pipers' Jigs; Ay Waukin O; The Whistlebinkies Jig; Ho-Ro Mo Chuachag; Dunkeld Bridge; Cam' Ye O'er Frae France; Taladh; Farewell To Muirhead's; Deireadh Leave 1940; The Wee Eddie Reel; A Wanton Fling; A' Bhalsa Mu Dheireadh.
The Whistlebinkies is one of Scotland's longest established folk groups/bands with an extensive recording history on Ireland's Claddagh Records label. This is their first album for Greentrax.
For those unaware of the Whistlebinkies sound, the lineup consists of Peter Anderson, Scottish side-drum, bodhran & bongos; Stuart Eydmann, fiddle, concertina & vocals; Mark Hayward, fiddle; Eddie McGuire, flute, piccolo & clarsach; Judith Peacock, clarsach & vocals; Rab Wallace, Lowland and Scottish small pipes.
Eddie McGuire is also a highly regarded Scottish "art" music composer; Peter Anderson and Rab Wallace (also a composer of some note) were both members of the now disbanded World Championship winning pipe band Muirhead and Sons; while Judith Peacock, a delicate Gaelic singer, Mark Hayward and Stuart Eydmann are all experienced and talented musicians.
The group has shared the concert platform or studio with company as diverse as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Capella Nova, violinist Yehudi Menhuin, various rocks bands, crowds of Glasgow schoolchildren, Chinese musicians (the 'Binkies' were the first Scottish music ensemble to tour the People's Republic of China) and they have even commissioned, premiered and broadcast work by the avant garde music luminary John Cage.
Jim Gilchrist, a journalist with the prestigious Scotsman newspaper, writes of the band: "The Whistlebinkies working up a head of steam remains one of the most distinctive and thrilling sounds of the Scottish folk revival."
The album was released on 1st February 1996, and was launched in the USA when the group appeared in five concerts at the Scotland - Cultural Counterpoint Festival, in the Anderson Centre for the Arts, Binghamton, NY, followed by an in-store performance in Macys Store, New York, where 'Scotland - The Brand' was promoting Scottish goods.