If you preorder the CD you get BOTH the CD and the digital album download.
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.
- you INSTANTLY receive one album track download: Track 9: "Forest Folk"
....all in all: you get an album, a piece of art and a tree book!
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This is a lament in the style of Ceòl Mòr [The Great Music], commonly called ‘pìbroch’ and often considered to be the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. This tune follows the complex melodic patterns of a traditional pibroch.
There are over a dozen different kinds of native willow trees of varying size, lifespan, habitat, leaf shape and more. They are constantly hybridising too. All have furry catkins that produce seeds. Stick a willow twig in the ground and it will take root readily. Willows, like alder, prefer to grow in damp soil and are often seen along the banks of rivers and lochs, but some also grow high in the hills in the alpine or montane zone. The montane scrub of the Cairngorms is very rare and precious. It includes eight kinds of montane willows, juniper and the hardy dwarf birch. Some of the most rare and endangered are the woolly willows which survive on several cliffs out of the reach of grazing animals. The Krumholz [crooked wood] in Creag Fhiaclach is a tough, stunted patch of woodland that can survive the strong, freezing arctic winds of the Cairngorms. In folklore Willow is The Tree of Mourning and has long been associated with grief and bereavement. This pibroch is composed in memory of the many extinct trees, plants and creatures that are lost forever through climate change, the destruction of natural habitats, overhunting, overfishing and unsustainable agricultural practices.
lyrics
Cannteareachd lyrics by Calum MacCrimmon
credits
from The Woods,
released March 21, 2020
Musicians:
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 Highest Willows”
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
supported by 87 fans who also own “The Highest Willows”
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
