About

A.D.A.M, which stands for a day a month is an exciting long standing collaboration between esteemed multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Mairearad Green, and award-winning composer and producer Mike Vass.

The pair have been writing music together under the moniker A.D.A.M for over a decade and their latest boundary-breaking release, Everybody Wants to be Like Mary, is a genre-defying dialogue between ancient Gaelic song melodies and the world of contemporary electronic and ambient soundscape.

As part of the project, the duo transcribed Scottish Gaelic songs, capturing all the nuance and inflection of the singers, including recordings from living tradition bearers and material from the School of Scottish Studies archives.

The melodies were then set for bagpipes and arranged with innovative electronic production from Mike Vass, one of the most creative forces within the Scottish music scene. Drawing inspiration from the vanguard of instrumental electronic producers including Jon
Hopkins, Dominic Eulberg, Kiasmos, and Max Cooper, Mike set about creating the unique soundscape of the album.

The album title was inspired by the remarkable Mary Morrison from Barra, whose incredible canntaireachd – Gaelic for ‘chanting’, a complex oral notation used by Scottish pipers for centuries to teach repertoire and performance style – had a significant influence on the project.

The album artwork includes bespoke designs by Mairearad Green as she combines her two passions – art and music. Having grown up in the West Coast Coigach peninsula of the Scottish Highlands, an area steeped in culture and local traditions, Mairearad’s impressionist painting style is a visceral response to her homeland, which paired with her dextrous
bagpipe playing makes for a beautifully modern take on Scottish life and heritage.