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This rainy field recording comes from a quote from Kenneth Steven’s stunning poem ‘The Linn’ (see Part 1 - CHILD) about river swimming with pals on a summer’s evening in his youth:

‘By nightfall we trailed back home, barefoot,
Smelling the blue smoke of barbecues,
Hearing in the trees muffled smudges of talk
As rain pattered dark around us
And Lightning flickered the sky’

This thunderstorm was recorded outside my back door and that’s the raindrops pitter pattering on the gazebo. The Gazebo was blown away by high winds a few months later! We are on our 4th garden gazebo now - I can get windy int he Cairngorms! Thunderstorms are are relatively rare occurrence in Strathspey - once a year, if that! The ‘Muckle Spate’ (Scots for ‘the big river flood’) was a terrifying pair of thunder storm that collided over the Cairngorms in 1829 in Speyside and Deeside, causing utter havoc and washing away mighty stone bridges, crops, livestock and peoples lives.

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from an t​​​’​​​Each Uisge [The Water​​​-​​​Horse] COMPLETE EDITION (All 5 Parts), released October 5, 2023
Recorded by Hamish Napier in his garden in Old Spey Bridge

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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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