This is a just a cut above, even for them. Rock solid tone on the "simple" march to start, and a cracking back half. Loved the creativity in setting a church hymn to pipes, the expressive phrasing, and a buttery smooth strathspey transition. Aggressive reels, clean chanter stop, and especially taking a traditional tune and cranking the speed/difficulty up to 11 while not losing the melody. Fabulous. PS - whomever sets their harmonies is the absolutely the best. Innovative, balanced, I wish everyone would but I suspect nobody else can pull it off. Thanks to @dronechorus for the high sound quality and speedy videos, you provide a great service to the community.
Gotta acknowledge out how much work it must have taken to nail that chanter break/pause in such an epically musical and clean way. Very difficult to do and I’ve never heard it done well until this set. Inverary never disappoints 👌👌
All the bands this year are sounding really great, especially in the grade 1 circuit. I can see why they won, though. That chanter stop was solid, and the complexity of the back end of tunes was amazing. Thanks for sharing this performance.
The sound this band has yesterday was the best I’ve heard live at a competition. Tonally just brilliant.
This is a just a cut above, even for them. Rock solid tone on the "simple" march to start, and a cracking back half. Loved the creativity in setting a church hymn to pipes, the expressive phrasing, and a buttery smooth strathspey transition. Aggressive reels, clean chanter stop, and especially taking a traditional tune and cranking the speed/difficulty up to 11 while not losing the melody. Fabulous. PS - whomever sets their harmonies is the absolutely the best. Innovative, balanced, I wish everyone would but I suspect nobody else can pull it off. Thanks to @dronechorus for the high sound quality and speedy videos, you provide a great service to the community.
Well said.
Gotta acknowledge out how much work it must have taken to nail that chanter break/pause in such an epically musical and clean way. Very difficult to do and I’ve never heard it done well until this set. Inverary never disappoints 👌👌
Great sound. Those reels are cruising - like 94/96. Love it.
Thanks for the tune titles.
All the bands this year are sounding really great, especially in the grade 1 circuit. I can see why they won, though. That chanter stop was solid, and the complexity of the back end of tunes was amazing. Thanks for sharing this performance.
James said it best. Then there's that tone💚
Best they've sounded since Scottish 2019. Tone town.
Fantastic performance