The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse is an alternative indie-folk-ish / americana artist from the Scottish Highlands. Brought up on bluegrass, hip hop and punk with influences such as Beck, Violent Femmes, O’Death and Hank Williams. Besides your usual hoedowns and such, live appearances have included a one-day nine-stop tour of Glasgow, UK, a roadside attraction tour in the US and several spontaneous pop-up shows spanning parts of the UK, Canada and Europe. Ramisco performed at the BBC Pacific Quay studio in 2012 for BBC Alba’s RAPAL TV show which aired on April 25th 2013. His song, Seas Air Do Chorra-Bhiod was named, “Gaelic Song of the Year 2012” by said TV show. In Sept 2014, Ramisco was shortlisted and performed at The 100 Club in London as part of the Living Indie TV Road to Santa Maria final, the show was broadcast live on Living Indie TV. Ramisco has been podcasted, blogcasted and broadcasted in several time zones, including the likes of BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal, The Tom Robinson Show, The BBC Introducing Mixtape, Amazing Radio, Netsounds Unsigned, The Waiting Room Radio Show, Kowalskiy Scottish Music Blog, KA Radio, Insomnia Radio, Last Year’s Girl, Idiosyncratic Transmissions, Ralph’s Indie Show, The Justin Wayne Show, Air3Radio, MESi Radio, Houdi Don’t Blog, Jungle Indie Rock Blog, Nicorolla Musikblog, The Dadada, Scots Whay Hae, Curious Joe, Three From Leith and so on. Most notably, Danger Danger was picked as a Fresh Fav on Tom Robinson’s website Fresh On The Net on April 1st 2013 and was later play-listed on the BBC Introducing Mixtape on BBC Radio 6 Music; The Shrinkin’ Railroad Shtomp was played by Baylen Leonard on his show, The Front Porch which was broadcast on Nov 9th 2013; And Ramisco performed an acoustic version of Under the Sky for Traxx Radio’s Top 50 of 2013 which was broadcast on the 2nd of Feb 2014. More recently, Tom Robinson play-listed Under the Sky on the BBC Introducing Mixtape (Sept 15th 2014) and also played it on The Tom Robinson Show (Sept 20th 2014). Releases to date include One Zero One Zero One Zero (2010), Fajita’s Basement (2011) and Squawk! (2013).