Iain Morrison (musician)

Iain Morrison is a Scottish musician and singer-songwriter. He was born on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.

Iain Morrison musician

Career

Morrison was a member of the Glasgow-based band Crash My Model Car. They were signed to V2 Records in 2005 and released an album Ghosts & Heights.

He won Composer of the Year at The Scots Trad Music Awards[1] in 2010. He was commissioned the same year by the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, to write songs for a New Voices showcase. The show, titled Ceol Mor/Little Music, received a 5 star review[2] from The Scotsman newspaper.

He appeared on three programmes of the BBC TV series Transatlantic Sessions[3] in 2011, singing three of his own songs alongside Bela Fleck, Danny Thompson and Jerry Douglas. He sang the part of Orpheus for Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown show in Glasgow in 2011.[4]

To record his 2012 album To the Horizon, Sir, Morrison traveled to Vermont and the home studio of producer and friend Michael Chorney. His 2015 album, Eas, was chosen as 'Album of the Year 2015' on BBC Radio Scotland's The Roddy Hart Show.[5] Eas was nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award, at the SAY Awards in 2016.[6]

In 2018, he was commissioned by An Lanntair and 14-18 Now[7] to write new music to mark the centenary of the Iolaire. The piece is called Sàl (Saltwater).[7] In May 2018, he released two albums, Amusement Arcade and 3 a.m.

His most recent studio album, Sàl, was released in November 2019.

In December 2020 he released a collection of previously unreleased tracks, b-sides and home recordings called "Pots and Pans".

Discography

Solo
  • Empty Beer Bottles & Peat Fire Smoke (2004)
  • Skimming Stones... Sinking Boats (2008)
  • Trust the Sea to Guide Me (2010)
  • To the Horizon, Sir (2012)
  • Eas (2015)
  • Amusement Arcade (2018)
  • 3 A.M. (2018)
  • Sàl (2019)
  • "Pots and Pans" (2020)

With poet Daibhidh Martin
  • Haunted Bird (2011)

With Crash My Model Car
  • Ghosts & Heights (2007)

With Poor Old Ben
  • Drawing Faces to Forget (2003)

References
  1. "MG Alba Music Awards". Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  2. "Ceol Mor / little music review". The Scotsman. 19 January 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  3. "BBC Transatlantic Sessions". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  4. "Hadestown show Glasgow". Nme.com. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  5. "14/12/2015, Roddy Hart - BBC Radio Scotland". BBC.
  6. "History". Sayaward.com.
  7. "Iolaire - 14-18 NOW". 1418now.org.uk.

Reviews
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