Battlefield Band – Home Ground
Album
Formed in Glasgow, Battlefield Band built their reputation on forward-looking arrangements driven by Highland bagpipes and synthesizer. On this 1982 release, Duncan MacGillivray's Highland pipes and whistle interlock with Alan Reid's organ and Brian McNeill's fiery fiddling, transforming traditional pipe marches and strathspeys into muscular acoustic anthems. Their distinctive forward-progression philosophy proved that Scottish traditional dance tunes have the structural power to support modern polyphonic textures.