If you preorder the CD you get BOTH the CD and the digital album download.
The CD also comes in a truly stunning 3-fold digipack (6 pages), containing:
- an epic 28-page, 6000-word booklet with native tree facts & Highland folklore
- a beautifully detailed drawing of the Caledonian forest by Somhairle MacDonald
- stunning landscape photography by David Russell at Highland Wildscapes.
- you INSTANTLY receive one album track download: Track 9: "Forest Folk"
....all in all: you get an album, a piece of art and a tree book!
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This is for the MUCKLE BEASTS [larger creatures] of the forest, the vertebrates (birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals) known as druim-Altachain in Scottish Gaelic.
The capercaillie (Scottish Gaelic), ‘The Horse of the Woods’, is an otherworldly creature. The male birds are as giant as they are cantankerous, famed for their clicks, pops and flutter jumps at the ‘lek’ during mating season. With Egyptian eye liner, a Japanese fan tail, velvet green neck plumage and a fierce hooked beak, the giant grouse fly through the Scots pinewood canopy with all the grace of a cannonball. Capercaillies have been known to take on foes several times their own size, including stationary Land Rovers. Their arch-rival is the pine marten (An Taghan), one of Scotland’s most beautiful and beloved predators.
credits
from The Woods,
released March 21, 2020
Musicians:
Scottish mega piper Ross Ainslie. awesome self-penned tunes, banging arrangements and all-round dynamite production! Ross and I have been collaborating for years on each other's gigs and albums! Hamish Napier
supported by 100 fans who also own “The Capercaillie Rant / An Taghan”
My father was born in Glasgow, yet somehow I have never visited Scotland. This lovely music sounds like my ticket of return to the country of his birth. Philip Graham
supported by 87 fans who also own “The Capercaillie Rant / An Taghan”
Just the most fun. Every set is one I want to sit down and learn, and they play with so much ENERGY and STYLE. Crunchy, tangible sound. I'll never get tired of listening to Kinnaris Quintet play. andpersand
Old-fashioned fiddles harmonize with rippling synths on the Scottish singer-songwriter's latest collection of original folk songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2022