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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Insects can be every bit as fascinating as the most graceful bird of prey or mammal of the Caledonian Forest. I will never forget the moment I saw my first Green Tiger Beetle during a primary school wildlife trip to the Green Loch at Glenmore. Had this exotic creature, with its shiny emerald green armour, just flown in from the jungle? I still get excited when I find enormous anthills in the pine forest. A few years ago, half way up a Munro in the hills above Glenfeshie, I was surprised to encounter a huge dragonfly darting past me and across the open moor. The ‘Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms’ project aims to protect, amongst others, the beautiful pine hoverfly and Kentish glory moth. You can find a drawing of both of these in the album cover artwork by Somhairle MacDonald.
Insects play a crucial role in the forest, as pollinators, honey-makers and recyclers of nutrients through consumption of dung and carrion. They provide food for the fish, birds, mammals and other insects. Some are even farmers - Scottish Wood Ant ‘farms’ aphids by milking them regularly for their honeydew.
Invertebrates are the great foragers of the forest. The odd 7/8 rhythm of this tune was composed for my own foraging activities. It represents me and my pals stumbling around the lumpy, uneven, mossy, heathery forest floor in search of delicious chanterelle mushrooms! A great Scots word schawaldouris refers to a wanderer in the woods who subsides by hunting.
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
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
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
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