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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‘B’ is the first letter of the Early Medieval alphabet (the Ogham) which is very apt since it was one of the pioneering species to spread across the barren post ice age landscape 10 millennia ago.
Their leaves are among the first to appear in spring. A birch wood in a summer sunset can turn an incredible fluorescent green. The lush drooping green canopies turn yellow-gold in autumn and leave behind a purple-brown crown of bare branches in winter.
How do you tell the difference between silver bich and downy birch? Silver birch has a straighter trunk with brilliant black and white bark and more triangular leaves, while downy birch trunks are less ordered and smaller with slightly browner bark and more rounded leaves.
Birch is plentiful in the Highlands and so was put it to a myriad of uses by the Highlanders of old: firewood, arrows, spinning wheels, rope, candles, sap wine and fodder for livestock.
credits
from The Woods,
track released January 9, 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
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
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
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