Delta MainLine

Delta MainLine are lot’s of people and lot’s of instruments from Edinburgh in Scotland –  David McLachlan (vocals / guitar),  Gavin King (bass), Shaun McLachlan (drums / percussion / mandolin / vocals),  Verity Blanchard (piano / organs / synths / cello / Raagini Tanpura / vocals), Greg Walker (harmonica / theremin / percussion / effects / vocals),  William Walker (guitar / slide / lap steel),  George Gunn (guitar / effects / piano) Brass courtesy of Dr Bruce Michie. Well that makes eight, but Dr. Michie isn’t there all the time so the core is a mere seven.

Delta MainLine

Delta MainLine

Surely too many people and too many instruments, but the answer is no, Delta MainLine manage the whole experience with a sense of space, which takes some dexterous moves given the battalion available. Unctuous hands emerge, lathering the atmosphere with a sweet oil, before deftly breaking open the cloying cocoon and out emerges a butterfly to transport the audience on a journey across sound-scape.

Nervous energy reverberates through the band, as though each member is nervous of critique, yet it is held together by the finest of threads and away we float, driven by wind and wing to a psychedelic gauze of sound.

As the butterfly gently secures confidence, which is rebutted by a gust of wind, so Delta MainLine play music – fine as a shard of glass, piercing yet fragile.

This is music which needs space and time in which to wallow. Superb for a septet, that they are able to construct such emotionally suspect pieces.

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