Luffness (2000/2005)

Scottish musican Phil Cunningham once suggested that taiko and highland pipes were a natural combination, and that a mist-covered moor would be the ideal setting in which to encounter a pipe band and taiko ensemble in full dress. This image is our point of departure.
The title comes from Douglas Adams and John Lloyd's book The Meaning of Liff, a small dictionary wherein words that are "loafing about on signposts" are assigned meanings drawn from those many "common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize but for which no words exist." Luffness (also a town on the east coast of Scotland) is defined as the "Hearty feeling that comes from walking on the moors with gumboots and cold ears."

Michael O'Neill