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Why do terns fly in pairs?
One good tern deserves another.

Flyway

Flyway Tern Tern (CD, UK, 7 February 2025) Shetland Reels Tern Tern (DL single, UK, 31 March 2023)

Recorded by Gus Stirrat at Solas Sound, Glasgow;
Mixed by Peter Alec Kay;
Mastered by Barry Reid;
Artwork and design by Chloe Keppie

At the Barrier album review by Seuras Og;
FolkNotes album review

Musicians

Rose Logan (Scotland), Kristina Leesik (Sweden): fiddles;
Lea Søndergaard Larsen (Denmark): bodhrán;
Miguel Girão (Portugal): guitar;
Amy Laurenson (Scotland): piano

Tracks

1. Smackpolskan (3.24)
2. Nighean donn nan gobhar (3.36)
3. Tha mo ghaols’ aig Dònal (3.18)
4. Jigs (6.52)
5. Storpolska (6.21)
6. Blodomloppet (5.48)
7. The Living Stream (3.33)
8. Hallings (4.12)
9. Shetland Reels (4.47)

Track 9 trad., three Auld Reels taken from two of the most emblematic collections of music from Shetland, Da Mirrie Dancers and Ringing Strings, both by Tom Anderson and Tom Georgeson (1970).