Murray Bruce
Murray has been writing songs and guitar pieces since he was fifteen and living in the North of Scotland. As a teenager in the late 1970s he was bass player in Edinburgh post-punk outfit Metropak. Those songs are still turning up on US college radio playlists, and even Mexican punk podcasts, almost thirty years after the band split up.
The next twenty-two years were spent living and playing in London, forming bands and playing sessions. He played bass in bands through the 80s, before moving on to performing his own songs and tunes.
In 1999 he released Cairndhuna, a beautiful acoustic instrumental album, co-written with fellow Scottish songwriter John Mackie. The John O’Groat Journal described the tunes as “soundtracks to life” and the title track as “a magnificent piece, symphonic in scope, revealing a deep love of place, and it proves yet again that the things that leave the deepest impression on us happen in childhood and youth and never leave us”. Tracks from the album were widely played on Scottish national and local radio. Cairndhuna has a myspace page – www.myspace.com/cairndhuna - and a tenth anniversary re-issue CD is currently being planned.
What about this century, you’ll be wondering? Eight years of ME/CFS stopped Murray playing music. Getting out of London and moving to Wales, in 2003, was the high spot. Now, with his health back and living in Ceredigion, Murray is writing and performing again, and recording music for film and TV placement.
He is also looking to collaborate on contemporary dance and theatre projects, and would be delighted to hear from choreographers, playwrights, and their ilk.
Contact
t: 01545 590109
w: www.myspace.com/murraybrucemusic
Music
There is also more music on the Myspace page.
1. Papa’s Goat
