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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.
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....all in all: you get an album, a piece of art and a tree book!
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Hazel is represented by letter 'C' in the Scottish Gaelic alphabet.
C is for COLL [Call], Hazel, hizzle, craobh-challtainn, Corylus avellana.
We normally associate hazel with the Atlantic woods of Scotland’s West, but there are some beautiful old hazel woods near the Cairngorms at Backharn and Delbog near Nethy. The Hazel’s smooth, grey-brown bark is often covered in lichens and mosses. Its round leaves are pointed at their tips and are the first to appear in spring and the last to fall. Hazels often grow in a clump of trunks and shoots that branch out near the ground, making them seem more like a bush. For the Celts hazelnuts represented wisdom and poetic inspiration, but they are most prized by red squirrels. This is a piano piece composed for Highland artist and family friend, Rosie Fisher, who made two kindred wood sculptures, one in the Cairngorms and one in Mull. One depicts Pan, the Greek god of the wild, and the other is Thoreau, the famous American naturalist, writer and philosopher. Thoreau once said, “In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” The kindred sculptures represent the great forests of Scotland’s east and west respectively.
credits
from The Woods,
released March 21, 2020
Musicians:
HN: F flute, piano
IW: viola, fiddle
SL: cello
JL: bass
SB: drums
All tracks composed by H Napier PRS/MCPS.
Produced by Andrea Gobbi & H Napier.
Arranged by S Byrnes & H Napier.
Recorded, mixed & mastered by A Gobbi at GloWorm Recordings & Carrier Waves, Glasgow.
Additional recordings by Barry Reid on location in Hamish’s livingroom, Grantown-on-Spey.
Field recordings by H Napier, W Boyd-Wallis and P Smith.
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 Tree of Knowledge”
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
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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