Scotland’s MAIRI MORRISON and ALASDAIR ROBERTS team together on a new album of primarily traditional Gaelic and Scottish songs. Urstan presents a spirited and innovative musical re-imaging the numbers and includes one original tune each from Mairi and Ali. There’s fastidious notes included in both Gaelic and English, but the compulsive rhythms and moods conjured by the band will leave you little time to read while the music plays—Urstan is a physically absorbing experience, filled to abundance with color and the love of life. (STREET DATE - 3/27/2012)