The Unseen Stream is a progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 album

Album

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 by Troy Donockley

Troy Donockley

Troy Donockley is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for his playing of uillean pipes.- Early life and career :...

. This was his first solo outing and was released in 1998.

This recording shows Troy as a multi-skilled wood player. His main instrument is the Uilleann Pipes adding also Low Whistles, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Keys, Cittern and Mandolin, and he has composed most of the tracks. Although a solo recording he includes guests Irish fiddler Nollaig Casey

Nollaig Casey

Nollaig Casey is an Irish fiddle player ,and has an international reputation as one of Ireland's finest fiddle players. By the time she was eleven years old she could play violin, piano, tin whistle and uilleann pipes. During her teenage years she learned to play in both the classical and...

, piano player Neil Drinkwater, his Iona colleagues Joanne Hogg

Joanne Hogg

Joanne Hogg is an Irish singer and songwriter for the band Iona.-Biography:Hogg was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland and is best known as the lead singer and songwriter with the Christian progressive Celtic/pop/rock band Iona . Her father is a Presbyterian minister, her mother a nurse; her...

 (voice), Terl Bryant

Terl Bryant

Terl Bryant is a drummer and percussionist who has worked with a wide range of artists and contributed to many top flight recordings to much critical acclaim...

 (percussion) and Tim Harries

Tim Harries

Tim Harries is a British bass player.Harries studied music at the University of York, graduating in 1981 before going on to study Double Bass with Tom Martin at the Guildhall School of Music...

 (bass), the Emperor String Quartet and Duncan Rayson on the Rochdale Town Hall Organ. The piece draws on Irish Orchestral works, folk, rock, jazz, Scandinavian symphonies and New Age stylistically.
The music is mostly expressions of Troy's experience, particularly inspired by natural beauty of the coast.

Musicians in order of appearance

• Troy Donockley
  Troy Donockley
  Troy Donockley is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for his playing of uillean pipes.- Early life and career :...
  
   - Uillean Pipes, Low Whistles, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Keys, Cittern and Mandolin, Tin Whistles, Vocals
• Terl Bryant
  Terl Bryant
  Terl Bryant is a drummer and percussionist who has worked with a wide range of artists and contributed to many top flight recordings to much critical acclaim...
  
   - Percussion (Cymbals, Gong, Bodhrans, Bells, Various Drums)
• Duncan Rayson - Organ
• Nollaig Casey
  Nollaig Casey
  Nollaig Casey is an Irish fiddle player ,and has an international reputation as one of Ireland's finest fiddle players. By the time she was eleven years old she could play violin, piano, tin whistle and uilleann pipes. During her teenage years she learned to play in both the classical and...
  
   - Fiddle
• Chris Redgate - Oboe
• Emperor String Quartet - Strings

*Martin Burgess

Martin Burgess

Edward Martin Burgess FSA FBHI, born 21 November 1931, known as Martin Burgess, is an English horologist and master clockmaker.-Early life:Burgess was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, between 1944 and 1949, where he was a member of Farfield...

 - Violin
*Claire Hayes - Violin
*Fiona Bonds - Viola
*William Schofield

William Schofield

William Schofield was a United States Judge.Schofield attended the Harvard Law School and then practiced law in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1899 to 1902 and served as a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1902 to 1911...

 - Cello

• Neil Drinkwater - Grand Piano
• Tim Harries
  Tim Harries
  Tim Harries is a British bass player.Harries studied music at the University of York, graduating in 1981 before going on to study Double Bass with Tom Martin at the Guildhall School of Music...
  
   - Bass
• Joanne Hogg
  Joanne Hogg
  Joanne Hogg is an Irish singer and songwriter for the band Iona.-Biography:Hogg was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland and is best known as the lead singer and songwriter with the Christian progressive Celtic/pop/rock band Iona . Her father is a Presbyterian minister, her mother a nurse; her...
  
   - Vocals
• Nick Holland
  Nick Holland
  Nick Holland is a former Australian rules football player. He played 179 games for the Hawthorn Football Club between 1994 and 2005, serving as Vice Captain between 1999 and 2003. He is a previous winner of the AFL Rising Star, Hawthorn's Best & Fairest award, Hawthorn's leading goal kicker in...
  
   - Voice
• Julie Darling - Harp
• Andy Duncan - Percussion (Djembe, Darabuka), Voices

Additional credits

Produced by Troy Donockley

Troy Donockley

Troy Donockley is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for his playing of uillean pipes.- Early life and career :...

 and Nigel Palmer

Recorded at Gemini Studios

Gemini Studios

Gemini Studios was launched when Thiruthuraipoondi Subramanian Srinivasan bought a film distribution concern at an auction and renamed it as Gemini Pictures also known as Gemini Studios. Gemini Studios served as a breeding ground for innumerable artists and technicians for the south Indian Film...

, Ipswich; Warterworld, Yorkshire; Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire; Cannibal Studios, Dublin

Engineered by Nigel Palmer

Organ recorded on location at Rochdale Town Hall

Rochdale Town Hall

Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is "widely recognised as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country", and is rated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building...

Design and Photography by Chris Sands

Troy Photograph by Jonathan Mark

Remastered by enis Blackham at Skye Masters 2005

Music omposed and arranged by Troy Donockley © 1998 Troy's Music/SGO

(p) & © 2005 Lantern Music Music Publishing Limited

'Air': Traditional; arranged Troy Donockley

'Finlandia': Sibelius; arranged Troy Donockley © Breitkopf Aaertel KG. (Gema)

www.troydonockley.co.uk

Track listing

Disc - Total Time 47:41

1. Wild Black Coast (3:23)
2. Sights (3:10)
3. Air (5:00)
4. Yearl (14:14)
5. Carousel (4:55)
6. Tunnels (9:52)
7. Finlandia (3:45)
8. Death Of Rainbows (3:16)

Release Details

• 1998, UK, Alliance Records 1901162, Release Date 10 August 1998, CD
• 2005, UK, Lantern Music and SGO Music Publishing Ltd. LNTNCD2, Remastered, CD