In my time I've worked in just about every musical genre. Nearly all of them I get sooner or later. Ironically one I don't get, and the one most associated with my cultural background, is pipe-band music. The music is fine to record, loud - very loud - and powerful. It's just that I'm indifferent to it emotionally. I need it peppered with other things for it to suit my palate. 

The peppering on this track I did with one of the Kirkliston Band's drummers. It was concocted as an intro to their otherwise conventional Jacobite album. It's different and tries to capture Charles Stuart's arrival in Scotland prior to all the bother he caused. I've nothing against the Jacobites. As with the pipes I'm indifferent and agree with Burns: "adore the rising sun, and leave a man alone to his fate".