Tattie Jam
Tattie
Jam play (mainly Scots) traditional and folk music, with a twist. Seylan
Baxter sings and plays
the lead on a 5-string electric cello, and Ruaridh
Pringle sings and plays dynamic accompaniment
on guitar - and sometimes didgeridoo and octave mandolin; sometimes also taking the lead on mandolin.
While playing and singing everything from keening slow airs and a capella dark ballads to kinetic
reels and gentle or high-octane original songs (many of their songs and tunes are written by Ruaridh
Pringle), their style is 
highly energetic, with both melodies and a strong rhythmic underpinning
being bounced around between both musicians. Rich, sometimes unexpected harmonies predominate in
their singing, with both singers alternating the lead.
Subject
matter and treatments range from bleak, through thought provoking, to hilariously funny. Examples
of their music include samba-rhythmed pipe tune "Ivan MacDonald's Amazing Waterproof
Boots," a surprising take on the ballad "The Birken Tree", an unusually laidback
and wistful jazzy rendition of the well-known travelling song "tramps
and hawkers", and
the quirkily existential, punk-tinged bluegrassy "Different". This is a duo who like
to turn old songs on their head and turn heads with their new ones. Who do they sound like? Well,
apart from sounding more like a 4-piece than a 2-piece band, not really anyone else...
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