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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Please note 'G' also stands for 'Giuthas' (Scots Pine) represented in track 15 of the album as - 'The Tree of Return'.
There are two native cherries. ‘Gean’ is the bigger tree with sweet yellow berries that ripen to reddish-purple, and ‘Bird’, which is smaller with sour black berries. Bird is commonly seen with alder along the banks of the Spey.
Gean is rarer in nature, they are fairly short-lived and seldom appear in more than ones or twos. Highlanders thought it auspicious to come across one. Gean pops up in opportune spots away from the competition of other trees, wherever a bird has randomly dropped the cherry stone.
Both cherries are strikingly ornamental, with dazzling white spring blossoms, drifting petals and vivid-orange autumn leaves. Many a bard sang of the “cherry cheeks” of beautiful lassies.
Both berries could be made into a devilish brandy that was forbidden in 18th century Strathspey due to the wild effect it had on the local forestry workers.
credits
from The Woods,
released March 21, 2020
Musicians:
HN: whistle, piano
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.
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 99 fans who also own “The Tree of Luck”
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
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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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