Now there’s a team to conjure with – and conjuring is Wild Biscuit‘s stock in trade.
Ever inventive, the Scottish project management company and music label, Argyll’s Wild Biscuit, is marked by its keen eye for the unusual and the innovative.
Its latest production, MOVE, is a short film fusing the worlds of traditional Highland pipe music and urban hip hop, shot on location in Mid Argyll, filmed and edited by Dave Dunbar, Director of Photography and Editor of BAFTA winning film Bulb.
MOVE will be screened prior to main features in the Screen Machine mobile cinema for a two month period as it tours Scotland from 30th July 2010.
This dynamic short film is the result of a unique collaboration between Wild Biscuit, Mid Argyll Pipe Band and Scotland’s No1 Hip Hop Crew, Random Aspekts – whose credits include choreography and performances with Black Eyed Peas, Scottish Ballet, David Guetta and Kelly Rowland at the MOBO Awards in Glasgow’s SSEC, and the Strathmore Water television ad campaign.
Wild Biscuit worked with members of the Mid Argyll Pipe Band over a period of eight weeks in preparation for a dance workshop and performance day, taking the band into new territories of music and movement.
“John Saich: ‘We had the gut feeling that this was going to be something that really needed to be recorded’.”
The music for MOVE is an urban beat re-working of a familiar pipe tune, recorded by Wild Biscuit’s musical director John Saich, who gained his trad stripes in his eleven years as member of Scots Gaelic band Capercaillie.
John says: ‘We hadn’t intended to develop the project into a film, but had the gut feeling that this was going to be something that really needed to be recorded. To our great fortune, Dave Dunbar was as intrigued by the idea of this cross discipline project as Random Aspekts were, so we decided to commission and produce this short film, mainly as a piece of work in its own right but also as a legacy of what we believe is something quite unique’.
“Tony Mills of Random Aspekts: ‘Mid Argyll Pipe Band has the groove, we hope to add some funk’.”
The majority of Mid Argyll Pipe Band members involved in the project are under twenty years of age. As Tony Mills of Random Aspekts said on the day: ‘Mid Argyll Pipe Band has the groove, we hope to add some funk’ and that’s exactly what they did.
On screen Tony is joined by two of his Random Aspekts crew Bilal Oussellam and Ashley Jack, performing highlights of a bespoke three-part routine that he choreographed for the day.
MOVE is the latest in a long line of recent achievements for Mid Argyll Pipe Band. It travels to Northern Ireland for a main stage Festival performance this September and has previously performed in the Czech Republic, Northern Spain and Cornwall.
Winners of the Scots Trad Music Award in 2007, the band has built on a working partnership with Wild Biscuit since its first collaboration in its Blackwood & Hickory album in 2007. This collaboration continues to provide opportunities for the members of the Band to experience their traditional music in new forms … traditional music with a twist.
MOVE is most fun on the big screen and the Screen Machine - as we keep saying – is one of the Highlands most glorious initiatives – BUT,if you can’t wait… catch it on Wild Biscuit’s You Tube channel or visit the Wild Biscuit website for links.
The photographs above are copyrighted to Wild Biscuit – and show random aspects of the experience none of the partners in this creative initiative could have expekted to find themselves in.
Super cool job, Dave…
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