One of the most talked-about folk bands of the 21st century, Talisk has been tearing apart stereotypes and redefining the folk genre for almost a decade. With more than 15-million streams, sold-out shows across five continents and headline appearances at festivals the world over, the Scottish trio has amassed a global following.
Scottish folk band Talisk (Mohsen Amini, Benedict Morris, and Charlie Galloway) rose to prominence after winning the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards "Folk Band of the Year" category in 2017.
UK Reviewer Neil McFadyen of Folk Radio UK has described their music as being "driving, fiery". Journo Johnny Whalley noted that "their music draws on the Irish as well as the Scottish tradition and generally cracks along at a lively pace with concertina and fiddle vying for the lead, driven by Craig's guitar. The musicianship is phenomenal, the enthusiasm infectious and guaranteed to put a smile on your face."
Talisk are a purely instrumental band. Rob Adams of the Herald Scotland noted in a review that "in the absence of songs to vary the mood and tempo, they employ passages of reflection and trance-like motifs or offer a quiet melodic introduction."
They begun in 2015 with Mohsen Amini, Hayley Keenan, and Craig Irving. Irving left to join Mànran, and was replaced on the guitar by Graeme Armstrong. The same year year the band won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. Then Amini became the 2016 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician. Success continued, being named "Folk Band of the Year 2017" at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.
Amini was then named the 2018 "Musician of the Year" at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
The band's debut album, 'Abyss', was released in 2016, and their second album, Beyond, was released in 2018. That same year, they received the Belhaven Bursary for Innovation in Scottish Music, the largest music prize in Scotland.
Hayley Keenan left in 2021 to return to classroom music education, replaced by Benedict Morris and Armstrong left a year later to be replaced by Charlie Galloway.
Talisk are a purely instrumental but in the absence of songs, the mod and tempo varies greatly to create 'passages of reflection', trance-like motifs, spiralling themes, or, in contrast moments of tranquil, quiet melodic introductions.
Live they are a force of nature. Wielding instruments that have rarely seen the likes of their music, At New Year 2022 they played BBC 1’s Hogmanay show to a huge television audience and, as the only folk act, amassed a vast, mainstream audience.
They also headlined Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland Ballroom in 2024 as part of the legendary Celtic Connections festival. Their star remains firmly on the rise.
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