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The Foragers

from The Woods by Hamish Napier

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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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14. The Foragers 2:34

For the WEE BEASTIES of the forest: also known collectively as neo-dhruim-altachain, golachs and invertebrates.

Molluscs, Millipedes, Centipedes, Spiders, Harvestmen, Ticks, Dragonflies, Damselflies, Butterflies, Moths, Bugs, Flies, Bees, Wasps, Ants, Beetles.

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.

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from The Woods, released March 21, 2020
Musicians:

HN: D flute
IW: fiddle
JH: Uillean pipes
JL: bass
SB: guitar, 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.

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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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