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Chpt. 5 STRENGTH - 01 The Tree of the Return (field recording & music)

from an t​​​’​​​Each Uisge [The Water​​​-​​​Horse] COMPLETE EDITION (All 5 Parts) by Hamish Napier

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Recorded while sitting on a big rock in the missile of the fast-flowing ribver 'Am Beanaidh' in Gleann Eanaich (Glen Ennich) in the Cairgorms. The tune is called the Tree of the Return which I wrote in honour of a local celebrity tree on the hillside just above the spot (a full arrangement of the tune appears on my album 'The Woods'). We have always had special associations with conspicuous Scots Pines. ‘Firs’ as they were once known, were often used as important landscape markers by journeying Highlanders. One such sentinel, Craobh Phillidh [The Tree of the Return] marked the limit of the forest above Rothiemurchus. When the local farmers brought their cattle up to graze in summer pastures in Glen Eanaich, they would stop when they reached the halfway point at Craobh Phillidh and would just send the cattle on their way to make the last eight mile walk up the glen, unaccompanied, and the farmers then returned back down to their forest homes having saved themselves an unnecessary walk. The tree tipped over in 1927 in a storm but the remains of it can still be seen today.

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from an t​​​’​​​Each Uisge [The Water​​​-​​​Horse] COMPLETE EDITION (All 5 Parts), released October 5, 2023
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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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