Treacherous Orchestra

Public Group active 6 months, 3 weeks ago

A testostrone fuelled, high octane, premier league cocktail of tunes and grooves. An ongoing project which began in 2006 whose line-up reads like a noahs arc of those that have passed through the Glasgow music scene.

A product of the recent renaissance in Scottish folk music, Treacherous Orchestra are the ultimate twelve-piece, pan-Scottish outfit (with two members from Ireland). It’s an aggregation that came together in the musical melting pot that is Glasgow, a location where the individual musicians first developed a strong affinity for each others playing. Every time this specific crowd of instrumentalists got together, musical sparks would fly. This empathy, and their passion for high-energy, innovative and evolving styles of playing, comes to fruition in the exuberant sounds produced on their debut album ‘Origins’.

Each member of the band brings a strong individual sound and instrumental style to this powerful blending of the old with the new. In addition, many of the group are also gifted composers, producers and engineers in their own right and it is these cumulative talents that set the band apart in terms of forging their own unique interpretation of Scottish music. ‘Origins’ was recorded in several studios throughout Scotland (in the Highlands, Glasgow and Lanarkshire), produced jointly by three members of the band and features 90% self-penned material that has evolved organically with the growth of the band. ’Origins’ is the culmination of many years of playing, learning and having fun.

Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton (pipes & whistles)
Bo Jingham & Kevin O’Neill (flutes & whistles)
Adam Sutherland & Innes Watson (fiddles)
Eamonn Coyne & John Somerville (instruments from hell; banjo & accordion)
Spad Reid (guitars)
Fraser Stone (grooves – drums & percussion)
Duncan Lyall & his double bass.