Imaginary Creatures

Imaginary Creatures is the brainchild of lyricist David Scott. Since teaming up with Offbeat's Iain McKinna in 2013 they have produced 4 albums together. Typically David came to the studio with musical influences for each track and strong ideas about the musical arrangements. Iain then interpreted them and inserted his own style and influences into the material.

On the first album The Butterfly's Dream, one of the songs Everybody Goes Insane was covered by Blue Oyster Cult's Joe Bouchard who went on to guest as slide guitarist on a track on the second album Danse Macabre.

Each album had distinctly differing themes. Sometime They Get Into The machinery featured Cello and Strings on each track whilst still maintaining a rock theme.

When David came into the studio he already had a strong idea of how he wanted the song to sound. He had established melodies and played Iain reference tracks with ideas of sounds for key instruments. As tracks progressed they became their own animal but this starting point was important especially for lyricists. Without these pointers it's possible that the music could end up being drastically different from the original vision of the lyricist.

Other contributors to the project include:

Brian Rice - Lead Vocals
Keith More - Lead Guitar
Seonaid Aitken - Violin
Kirsty McKinna - Backing Vocals & Electric Violin
John Burgess -Sax
Cameron Jay -Trumpet
Wendy Weatherby & Ron Shaw - Cellos
Ted McKenna - Drums