''This Strange Place'' is a project album featuring members of

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band

Wolfstone Wolfstone are a Scottish people, Scottish musical group founded in 1989, who play Celtic rock. Their repertoire consists of both original songs and traditional folk pieces. They have released seven studio albums, the latest, ''Terra Firma (Wol ...

. Originally released in 1997 under the name and artist credit of '' Drever-Mackenzie'', it was soon erroneously reissued as a Wolfstone recording with the new title ''This Strange Place'', perhaps, it has been suggested, as a contract filler.

Background

Wolfstone's ''

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'' was released in 1996 to success. Following this,

Ivan Drever Ivan Drever is a Scottish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He often tours with fiddler Duncan Chisholm who founded the Celtic rock band Wolfstone which Drever joined in 1990 but left in later years. Drever has mixed traditional folk with so ...

worked on a side-project involving some of Wolfstone's line-up, but primarily with bassist Wayne Mackenzie. The project, entitled "This Strange Place", resulted in a ten-track album recorded for Green Linnet records. Green Linnet, however, ultimately released the album as a Wolfstone recording, and so the band's popularity waned as fans were led to believe that Drever's mellow style was the new direction Wolfstone were taking. Drever later left the band before the release of ''

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'' in 1999. Drever and Duncan Chisholm released '' The Lewis Blue'' in 1998 which was noted, musically, as being closer to being a Wolfstone album than ''This Strange Place''.

Track listing

#"Harlequin" - 3:57 #*The Harlequin #*Pipe Major Stevie Saint #"This Girl" - 4:23 #"Let Them Sing" - 3:18 #"Banks of the Ness" - 4:14 #"This Strange Place" - 4:02 #"Stevie's Set" - 3:54 #*The Wild Monkey Dance #*Black Eyed Jam #"Till I Sleep" - 4:22 #"The Arab Set" - 3:49 #*An Arab in the Court of Kintail #*The Redwood Reel #"Reluctant Journey" - 4:40 #"Kazakhstan" - 5:15 #*A Thief in the Night #*The Hills of Kazakhstan Wolfstone albums 1998 albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub