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Brand new album from Ross Wilson aka Blue Rose Code whom Time Out magazine have described as, Imagine John Martyn meets a young Van Morrison shipwrecked with a crate of Chet Baker records.nbsp Features special guests Beth Nielsen Chapman, Julie Fowlis and Kathleen MacInnesA nomad both geographically and musically, Ross Wilson, aka Blue Rose Code, writes from the heart eschewing any specific genre and the twelve new songs on his new album The Water Of Leith, addressing themes of love, loss, travel, home, accepting the past and embracing the future, are painted with colours of folk, jazz, soul and pop an eclecticism that has become a hallmark of Blue Rose Code and has seen him compared to John Martyn, Van Morrison and Tom Waits.Underlining the sense of movement and place in Rosss work, The Water Of Leith is rooted in his return to his Scottish homeland. There, he reconnected with the stellar musicians who were to become an integral part of the new albums sound multi awardwinning singer Julie Fowlis, celebrated Gaelic singer Kathleen MacInnes, BBC Folk Award Winner, Ross Ainslie, 2017s Scottish Jazz Awards instrumentalist of the year Konrad Wiszniewski, leading violinist Seonaid Aitken and three of Scotlands finest jazz musicians John Lowrie, Colin Steele and James Lindsay, to name just some of the contributors. Grammywinning American singersongwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman features on the opening track. Ross coproduced the album with Angus Lyon.In the space of a few short years and the release of wellreceived albums North Ten, The Ballads Of Peckham Rye, and And Lo The Bird Is On The Wing, Blue Rose Code has built a growing reputation as a powerful writer and performer, gaining extensive radio play and the praise of key broadcasters including Edith Bowman, Mary Ann Kennedy, Bob Harris and also actor Ewan McGregor who made a cameo appearance on And Lo The Bird Is On The Wing after commenting My uncle Denis Lawson star of Local Hero gave me a copy of The Ballads Of Peckham Rye, its beautiful and I cant stop listening to it.