School Singing Projects Produced at Offbeat

In the past three years I have been involved in recording music for  schools following a meeting with US songwriter Randy Pritchard who got me involved in recording his song Peaceful World for Dean Park School in Edinburgh.  That song involved 75 primary school kids. Last year Tom Houston, songwriter I had recorded an album […]

Spirit Of The Glen 3

I’m back to Heartbeat Studios this week for the recording of the third Spirit Of The Glen album, this time for Decca Records. The first album reached no1 in the UK Classical charts, the second achieved a Classical Brit for best album of 2009 so there are high hopes for this album also. Producer Jon […]

Classical Brit Award – Spirit Of The Glen -best album of 2009

It was fantastic to be part of the team that recorded Spirit Of The Glen – Journey – for Universal Music Group. recorded mainly at Heartbeat Studio, the album was also party recorded in Basra, Iraq last August/September. Competition for the Brit Award included Katherine Jenkins, Mike Oldfield, The Male Fron Choir, Andrea Bocceli and […]

Spirit Of The Glen II

The recording for Spirit Of The Glen has now been completed. Producer of the project, Jon Cohen, arrived last Friday for the set up at Heartbeat Studios. I took my Apple G5 and Cinema Screen, Mackie Controller, Emagic Midi and Metric Halo sound unit along to the studio for the recording and engineered the session. […]

New album for Universal Music Group – Recording The Pipes

Following the amazing success of Spirit Of The Glen by The Royal Scots Dragoons and the Czech Film Orchestra, once again I’ve been asked to organise the studio and engineer the follow up album for The Universal Music Group which begins on August 8th. Spirit Of The Glen reached the coveted Christmas No 1 slot […]

Brit Award Nomination-Spirit Of The Glen

The album Spirit Of The Glen is in the final running for the NS&I Album of The Year at the 2008 Classical Brit Awards. To vote for the album please visit this link http://www.classicalbrits.co.uk/voting/

10 weeks at no1 for Spirit Of The Glen

Recent message from Derek (Pipe Major) of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Hi Iain, Sorry for the delay in my reply we are currently in America and here until 20th March, 66 shows in 70 days from one side of the country to the other. It was great that we stayed at No1 in the […]

Spirit Of The Glen..Xmas no1-UK classical charts

The album by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, produced by Jon Cohen and Engineered by Iain McKinna has reached no1 in the UK Classical Charts.

Spirit Of The Glen enters top 20

After a week of being released on Universal Records the ‘Spirit Of The Glen’ album has entered the UK Classical charts at no2 and the UK album charts at no 17. The album was produced by Jon Cohen and the pipes/drums and whistles were recorded by Iain at Edinburgh’s Heartbeat Studios in August this year.

Spirit Of The Glen

The album I worked on for Universal Records has been named as Spirit Of The Glen and last night the album was officially launched at Edinburgh Castle. The album which features the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is set for release on November 26th. Pipe Major Potter, who has previously worked with Mark Knopfler, Mike Oldfield […]