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The Schawaldouris [Wanderers in the Woods]

by Hamish Napier

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Mycorrhizon 01:13
MYCORRHIZON The tree of my life Twists upwards towards the morning sky. I bring you the sweetness of the sun While you bring a world to my feet. You are mycelium My living earth. From the surface My view was sheltered Often shadowed by older, greater trees A sapling competing for the light. Below the surface I reached only as far as my roots Until the moment my feet happened upon a path Stretching to other trees In a subterranean web of strings. Now, we are joined at the tips Fingers tightly entwined. Tuned-in to the whole wide woods You are a wisdom shared. I was only wood and leaves, Now I am the forest. Whenever you are the tree Let mycorrhiza be the voice of the ground. For Su-a. Hamish Napier August 2019
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Snow Day 00:27
SNOW DAY The snow absorbs every resonance from the wood Its great hands clasp tightly over my ears Impossibly still, Light frozen in motion. Only my boots steps send a ripple Squeaking and crunching As I pad to The Green Loch. Hamish Napier 2018
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The Woods are growing. This is an EP featuring several new additional bonus tracks for 'The Woods'

The Schawaldouris, pronounced "shaw-wall-dow-er-is", is a very old Scots word meaning 'wanderers in the woods'. Thanks to artist and writer Amanda Thomson (author of A Scots Dictionary of Nature) for telling me about this wonderful word! 

Humans and the forests evolved together, side by side. We are truly forest creatures.

The EP has 9 tracks and features collaborations with some of my very favourite people:

- two tracks with master Highland fiddle player Duncan Chisholm and Scottish Chamber Orchestra cellist, Su-a Lee,
- a traditional story from brilliant Scottish storyteller David Francis, accompanied by a soundtrack made from montage of half a dozen tracks from The Woods. Arranged and remixed by the amazing Andrea Gobbi. It's nearly 12 minutes long!
- two original poems (this is a relatively new venture for me),
- four very atmospheric woodland sound samples captured by nature sound recordists Pete Smith and Peter Stronach. A song thrush, a roe deer, an owl, a robin and the patter of raindrops on the forest canopy at dawn.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this EP in the comments section above if you get a chance to listen to it. It is only available exclusively on Bandcamp, because they are the good guys that look after us musicians.

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released December 13, 2020

Hamish Napier - composer, flute, piano, Wurly, harmonium and poems
Su-a Lee - cello
Duncan Chisholm - fiddle
Innes Watson - fiddle and viola
Steve Byrnes - guitars and drums
James Lindsay - double bass
Peter Stronach - sound recordist
Pete Smith - sound recordist

Co-produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Andrea Gobbi at GloWorm Recording, Glasgow, except for track 5 recorded by engineer Barry Reid in the Bishop's Chapel in Eden Court Theatre, Inverness in August 2019.

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Hamish Napier Grantown On Spey, UK

Hamish is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from the Scottish Highlands.

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