The Flow is an album by Chris Leslie released in 1997

This album is mostly instrumental. Although Chris Leslie is best known for his fiddle

Fiddle

The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

 playing in Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...

, these cuts sound nothing like Fairport. Some of it sounds like music of Thailand or Tibet, and other parts sound jazzy or new age. Perhaps the Scottish band "Shooglenifty" are the nearest reference point. It has a shimmering, slightly hestitant quality to it.

Tracks 2 and 6 produced by Simon Mayor. Other tracks produced by Tim Healey.

Track listing

1. "Ballydesmond/ Scartaglen" (Trad)
2. "Eliz Iza/ Derobee de Guingamp" (Trad / Trad)
3. "Aignish" (Traditional)
4. "The Witch of the Glen" (Trad)
5. "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (Words: Thomas Moore. Tune: Trad)
6. "Lime Rock" (Trad)
7. "The Old Blackbird" (Trad)
8. "The Flow" (Chris Leslie)
9. "Niel Gow's Lament for Abercairney" (Niel Gow)
10. "Paddy Ryan's Dream/ The Inimitable Reel/ The Macroom Lassies" (Trad)
11. "Kishmul's Galley" (Trad)
12. "Tune for the Land of Snows" (Chris Leslie)

Personnel

• Chris Leslie - violins, tingshaws, singing bowl, electric tambura
• Maartin Allcock
  Maartin Allcock
  Maartin Allcock , also known as Martin Allcock, is a multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer.-Biography:...
  
   - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Simon Mayor
  Simon Mayor
  Simon Mayor is a mandolinist and fiddle player, guitarist, and composer.- Works :With his solo debut The Mandolin Album in 1990 he embarked on a series of recordings to give the mandolin a uniquely British voice. The CD was made Recording of the Week on BBC Radio 2...
  
   - mandola, mandocello, mandolin
• Margaret Knight - concert harp
• Anne-Marie Doyle - Irish step-dancing
• Martin Simpson
  Martin Simpson
  Martin Simpson is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in the British Isles, America and beyond.-Biography:...
  
   - acoustic guitar
• Ric Sanders
  Ric Sanders
  Richard 'Ric' Sanders is a British violinist who has played in jazz-rock, folk rock, electric folk and folk groups, including Soft Machine and Fairport Convention.-Biography:...
  
  - electric violin, viola, cello