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Scots trad music star to serenade whisky in bid to enhance its flavour
whisky maker after being asked to play to casks of whisky to enhance their flavour.Ali Levack, frontman of Scottish "neo-trad" band Project Smok, has teamed up with whisky brand Wee Smoky for the unusual experiment which will see them release a single in harmony with a new bottle.The piper, from Dingwall, who was BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of 2020, played to the casks to enhance the flavour, a process known as ‘sonic-ageing’. The team-up with the innovative whisky brand began when the trio auctioned naming rights to their new single in a creative way to tackle loss of income due to cancellation of live gigs during the pandemic.
