Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach met at school about four years ago. Their tastes in music are pretty varied, and individually, not that similar. There’s enough of a crossover though for it to really work when they play together. What they do is pretty much entirely made up of their own tunes- some they have written together, others have been written separately and playing them together happens in a really natural way.

Charlie is from the middle of the Highlands, and it’s in the music of the area where his musical life began. Further down the line, a detour into gypsy jazz and bluegrass changed his style hugely. They are now as apparent in his playing as the music of home. What they play is closest in spirit to the first of these, but more progressive. From a largely mellow base, the music rises and falls, slowly building to moments of intensity, breaking away into powerful improvisation.

Piano is far from the competition piping tradition in which Joe grew up, but it’s where he is most at home. Not one for vamping either, like the piano playing he’d hear in dances at the village hall in Achiltibuie, his approach comes more from listening to the modern Scottish pianists that are doing such exciting things with the instrument and progressive minimalists such as Nils Frahm. Joe’s playing starts small and builds slowly, it’s the footing on which Charlie has the freedom to improvise at will.

They have played together a lot over the past few years: At school, and following that, at countless ceilidhs and functions.

Their CD: Waves Rise From Quiet Water is based on this essential fiddle/piano combination, with a number of additions. In the end the total lineup is: Fiddle, piano, tenor guitar,accordion, fender rhodes and vocals. The whole thing happened on a shoestring,recorded in Joe’s living room, using gear borrowed from friends and colleagues, timing takes between the rumble of the subway as it passed underneath the flat.

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