Iorram
Boat song

"A good soundtrack will function equally well as a backcloth for a film and as a listening experience in its own right ... This is certainly the case with composer and fiddler [and one-third of iconic Scottish folk trio Lau] Aidan O'Rourke's score for the recent documentary film Iorram (Boat Song). Iorram, directed by Alastair Cole, is a deft, subtle and strangely moving portrayal of Gaelic-speaking Hebridean fishermen ... O'Rourke is, without doubt, qualified for this particular project ... On Iorram, along with his fiddle playing, he takes on a role that falls somewhere between composer and curator. He has enlisted the help of some of contemporary folk's leading lights, including Brighde Chaimbeul on smallpipes, cellist Lucy Railton, Thomas Gibbs on piano and harmonium, Graeme Stephen on guitar and Adam Kinner on sax. The result is a very free take on folk music, incorporating elements of jazz and modern composition in a way that is perfectly organic and entirely suited to the subject matter ... O'Rourke's masterful document has a vividness that is almost visual in its own right".

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