Unstoppable

Released: 2007

TARTANIC is a band on the edge that fills a much needed niche in Celtic music performance, taking tunes out of the session and into the sensational with their own brand of humor and theatrics. This is not just music...this is an interactive spectacle brought to you by ... MEN WITHOUT PANTS!

Even the strict laws of the Fire Department cannot hold TARTANIC at bay as they take live performance to heart and create a high-energy pulse at 120 beats per minute and beyond. Celtic music from Scotland, Brittany and original contemporary compositions is melded with rhythms from around the world and propelled into the musical world of the future. Mixing the time-honored traditions of the Great Highland Bagpipes with a bevy of drums featuring world percussion from Arabia, Africa and America, TARTANIC has produced a musical fusion which is nothing short of EXPLOSIVE.

cd review:

With "UNSTOPPABLE" Tartanic goes "outside of the bag" and takes the bagpipes into more of the modern realm of music. This time they have mixed in Punk, Funk, Techno, Hip Hop and some New Orleans Second Line parade grooves into their music, as well as added spoken word from poetic greats like Robert Burns and Yeats. As if that was not enough, they then put the Great Highland Bagpipes through Delay, Distortion and even a Leslie cabinet. You can also hear some bits of the cover songs from their live show: "Smoke on the Water", "If You Think I'm Sexy","Blister In the Sun" as well as some Nirvana and Guns 'n ' Roses .....on the Bagpipes.

UNSTOPPABLE is truly a well done and artistic sonic adventure that exists sometimes at the edge of music and well into the Twilight Zone. Everything is possible and is mixed in to this production. There are times that it seems they are even probing into Eastern Mystic territory, and I don't mean New York. From the second you put it into your player with their "Static Emissions" to their ending with the "Hendrix Mix" of "Amazing Grace" (they put the Pipes through the same type of distortion that Jimi Hendrix used in his great guitar homage) you will be sure to have your mind kicked open from the expectation of what a Bagpipe and Drum CD is. Instead, in their newest production Tartanic has captured the magic of their live shows on an Audio CD. It's what they do best.....theatre of the mind utilizing their awesome bagpipe and drum music as the vehicle to take you somewhere else entirely. What an accomplishment.