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''Mellowosity'' is the debut recording by Scottish Celtic fusion group Peatbog Faeries, released in 1996 on Greentrax Recordings. By the point of ''Mellowosity'', the band had settled on being purely instrumental, a tradition which had continued to this day with only several textural exceptions. When the band began in 1994, they sang on several tracks, but noted fans wanted more of the instrumental tracks, a position the band shared.〔http://www.pri.org/stories/2012-03-07/video-peatbog-faeries-dust〕 Peter Morrison said that "obviously, as a band you normally gravitate to the stuff people are enjoying the most. You go by the crowd. We started mixing a bit of reggae and funk with pipe tunes. That was really popular. So we kind of started moving towards that. By the time we released our first album (), we almost moved completely away from songs."〔http://www.pri.org/stories/2012-03-07/video-peatbog-faeries-dust〕 Dave Sleger of Allmusic noted that with this album, the band "creatively blend a wide spectrum of musical ideas into their repertoire." They continue, "Virtually every track is accentuated by a unique accent sometimes fleeting in duration and sometimes dictating the course of the track -- like the brief injection of a mbaqanga guitar line in "Weary We've Been/Dancing Feet" and the ''Tubular Bells'' motif present throughout "Lexy Macaskill." Other tracks unveil additional disparate tendencies like the reggae rhythms in "Angus McKinnon," the Eastern music-influenced "Macedonian Women's Rant," and the funky grooves and jazzy keyboards of "Maids of Mount Cisco.""〔http://www.allmusic.com/album/mellowosity-mw0000091979〕 The "''Tubular Bells'' motif" however, does not resemble those actually featured on ''Tubular Bells''. Craig Harris, also of Allmusic, later noted that with ''Mellowosity'', the band "emerged as one of the funkiest tradition-rooted bands in Scotland."〔http://www.allmusic.com/artist/peatbog-faeries-mn0000038536/biography〕 ==Background and release== This was the Peatbog Faeries' debut album, and was released in December 1996 on Greentrax Recordings. The album was engineered by Beeg Al & Terry Adamas at Rel Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland. The album was mixed by Iain Copeland and the Peatbog Faeries themselves. The sleeve design, photo-montages and digital artwork were created by John Haxby. Iain Copeland dedicated his performance on the CD to Steven Smillie, noting "Gone but not Forgotten" in the liner notes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mellowosity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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