Springsteen
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Trevor Morrison
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beautiful piano.
a bit of the background to this cd.
Lost songs from the evacuated Hebridean archipelago of St Kilda have been discovered and brought to life on a new album featuring renowned composers including Sir James MacMillan.
It all began when Trevor Morrison sat down at the piano in Edinburgh's Silverlea Care Home 10 years ago and began to play.
The magic did not go unnoticed.
The tunes were simple, naive even, but memorable and with an extraordinary emotional depth.
As a 10-year-old child on the west coast island of Bute during World War Two, Trevor had been taught piano by a former resident of St Kilda.
His teacher had left the remote archipelago in the outer Hebrides when they were evacuated in 1930.
Somehow, a lifetime later and in failing health, Trevor managed to remember the tunes his teacher had shown him.
Stuart McKenzie, who had been volunteering in the care home, offered to record them.
"He played the most astonishing tunes. They were so different. Complicated, but simple," Mr McKenzie says.
"I went home, got my computer, downloaded a bit of software and went along to a local electrical store and paid £3 for a microphone we could put down the back of the piano for him. And away he went."
Trevor died in 2012, but the recordings eventually got passed on to Decca Records, which also saw the magic and commissioned a number of top composers to develop the tunes along with the Scottish Festival Orchestra.
The end result is a whole album entitled The Lost Songs of St Kilda, featuring some of Trevor Morrison's solo recordings in their pure form, others mixed in with orchestral arrangements and some completely new pieces inspired by the music.
Composer Sir James MacMillan is one of the contributors.
At his home overlooking the Firth of Clyde, James MacMillan can just about see the island of Bute where as a boy Trevor Morrison learned the songs.
"There's something very haunting about it," he says.
From the master of song, probably his best along with Innervisions
Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life
Label: Motown – TMSP 6002, Motown – 0C 158-98 261-3
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Gatefold Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM All Media, Album
Country: UK
Released: 30 Sep 1976
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Black - 'Wonderful Life'
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Now:
James Brown - 'Godfather of Soul'
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Nice - I played this yesterday:
Stevie Wonder - 'Song Review'
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Billie Holiday