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(November 2008) 13 tracks: dive down * broken off car door * skimming stones * winter, part 1 * tar the house * the ghost of the eriskay causeway * you * folklore & distant creed (re-mix by Calamateur) * shyness * uist spinning * so what, you cut your finger! * silent * sinking boats (with Lee Patterson).

Hebridean-born singer, songwriter and piper Iain Morrison has a refreshing, idiosyncratic approach to music. He has an ear for melody and a heart for pushing the boundaries, with a soft, intimate singing style that has been likened to Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake (except neither of them could play the bagpipes...).

The Sleepy Cafe band are Daibhidh Martin, Ali Whitty, Yvonne Lyon, Tony Soave, Calamateur, Martin Kelly, Lee Patterson, Mary Ann Kennedy, Duncan Chisholm, Marc Duff and Pete Harvey

"His softly-sung narratives have a deceptive potency..."

"It's all thoughtful, enjoyable and oddly affecting..."

"Highly recommended" (The List)

"Iain Morrison is from the Outer Hebrides and his atmospheric songs are awash with the bleak beauty of the region. A remarkable slice of rural folk, Skimming Stones reveals the depth of Morrison's songwriting skills." (Rock 'n' Reel)

"Morrison is justly gaining a cult following in folk circles. He specialises in spartan elegies, beautifully sung like Tom McRae's finest, and similarly aware that what you leave out from a song can be as important as what you put in a song." (Planet Sound)

"Iain Morrison's music is an enigmatic and truly original mix of creative elements, that in a very large part is very much his own, and which, beyond its immediate sonorous beauty, has a depth of startlingly imaginative, even surreal, observation." (Peter Urpeth, HI-Arts)

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