This Strange Place

This Strange Place
Studio album by Wolfstone
Released February 24, 1998
Genre Celtic rock
Length 41:56
Label Green Linnet Records
Wolfstone chronology

The Half Tail
(1996)		 This Strange Place
(1998)		 Seven
(1999)
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This Strange Place is a project album featuring members of Celtic rock band Wolfstone. Originally released in 1998 under Drever/Mackenzie, it was soon erroneously reissued as a Wolfstone recording, perhaps, it has been suggested, as a contract filler.

Background

Wolfstone's The Half Tail was released in 1996 to success. Following this, Ivan Drever 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 Seven in 1999. Drever and Duncan Chisholm, missing from This Strange Place, released The Lewis Blue in 1998 which was noted, musically, as being closer to being a Wolfstone album than This Strange Place.

Behind the CD tray is the text "No. 15" with "Inverness" written beneath it. Though "Inverness" is not a track, and there are only ten tracks on the album, it is possible this refers to a recording location, or the location of the "strange place".

Track listing

  1. "Harlequin" - 3:57
    • The Harlequin
    • Pipe Major Stevie Saint
  2. "This Girl" - 4:23
  3. "Let Them Sing" - 3:18
  4. "Banks of the Ness" - 4:14
  5. "This Strange Place" - 4:02
  6. "Stevie's Set" - 3:54
    • The Wild Monkey Dance
    • Black Eyed Jam
  7. "Till I Sleep" - 4:22
  8. "The Arab Set" - 3:49
    • An Arab in the Court of Kintail
    • The Redwood Reel
  9. "Reluctant Journey" - 4:40
  10. "Kazakhstan" - 5:15
    • A Thief in the Night
    • The Hills of Kazakhstan

A song entitled "Inverness" is listed underneath the CD tray as track 15. It does not feature on the album, and the song has not officially been release elsewhere.