Bag O' Cats - Out of the Bag

One of the MusicScotland top sellers of the year 2001.

(February 2001) 11 tracks: Rainstick * Raven * Inverleith Park * Glen Kabul * Making Hay * Popocatepetl * King of Laois * Itsno Reel * Moody Rudi * Halkidiki, Basant Muchari.

Bag o' Cats are Dick Lee (clarinets, saxophones, recorders), an award-winning jazz musician who did groundbreaking work with Hamish Moore, Rick Bamford (drums, percussion), Nigel Richard (cittern, lauto, manditar, Border pipes), Fraser Fifield (Scottish smallpipes, Border pipes, whistles, saxophone) and Rick Standley (double bass, fretless electric bass).

A remarkable fusion of music styles - all tunes are written by band members.

Produced by John Wesley-Barker.

"A veritable wonderworld of flavours, sounds, tunes and time signatures ... This reeling, raga-ing, swinging, swaggering hotline from the Himalayas, via the Balkans, to Cairngorm is the bees' knees ..." (The Herald)