FIREC015 Mac-Talla Nan Creag, by Various

FIREC015 Mac-Talla Nan Creag

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Richie Havers Haven't listened to this in ages. Lush

lstanton92 Contemplative. Wonderful sonic meditations on Scottish archaeological sites. At times intense and trance-like, and at others vast and sparse. Recommended listening.
Favorite track: Grugaigian Chant.

Antony Meijer No idea what this sounds like... But its so damn compelling...., I'm certain this will be an absolute trip..

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In addition to our 'regular' edition release, we're proud to present another item of blood, sweat and tears. The handmade wood and card outer sleeve is similar to the Linkwood special edition, individually assembled and featuring 3 colour laser scan technology artwork. Limited to 45 copies for the world.

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Contains: Double 12" vinyl housed in 3 colour screen printed outer sleeve, 12" full colour 12 page insert detailing the project and work with The Forestry Commission Scotland, CD version and housed in 3 colour screen printed wood and card outer sleeve.

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Screen printed 2x12" vinyl LP (printed 3 colour inside and out), housed in resealable sleeve. Includes 12 page, 12" full colour insert detailing the project and work with The Forestry Commission Scotland.

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1.	NR 8720 9577 02:12	info
2.	Where The Corries Hold The Snow 02:49	info
3.	Cup & Ring Cycle 05:35	info
4.	NM 8222 0270 03:07	info
5.	Dearg Agus Dearg 04:50	info
6.	Eternal Dawn and Gloaming 02:39	info
7.	NG 9098 2006 04:34	info
8.	3rd Pass 04:05	info
9.	Invocation 04:01	info
10.	Thrum 02:07	info
11.	NO 6594 9300 02:29	info
12.	Grugaigian Chant 10:23	info
13.	Five Sisters 03:05	info
14.	NG 8668 2508 02:11	info
15.	Grugaig Perc 00:43	info
16.	Caisteal Grugaig 18:58	info

about

Over 10,000 years ago, after the last Ice Age, humans began to explore and settle the place now known as Scotland. Evidence of our ancestors can be found in the various rock carvings, standing stones, tombs and dwellings still scattered throughout the lands today. Modern archaeological techniques can offer ever more detailed suggestions as to what these monuments might have meant, but it is still largely left to our imaginations to discern just what these spaces were used for.

In this spirit, Firecracker Recordings were approached by Forestry Commission Scotland to make something that might capture the feel of these places. They assembled a crack squad of artists (Lord Of The Isles, Other Lands, House Of Traps, Wounded Knee) whom they felt would embrace the challenge, thanks to their shared interest in their own Highland ancestries.

Visiting a handful of sites in an intense period of exploration late in 2014, they took field recordings, drank whisky, jammed in the ruins of brochs, studied rock art, sat in iron age forts, drank whisky, drove for many miles and generally began the process of channelling the shamanic forces (drank whisky) whose presence can still be felt all around.

This album is the result of that brief adventure. The artists worked both together and in isolation, quickly and effortlessly, manipulating the recordings taken from the source and combining them with their own compositions, inspired by both the sights they saw in this time and those they have imagined from another.

Here, they merge modern technologies with traditional instruments and the human voice to conjure up these ancient rites of celebration, ritual, offerings to long forgotten gods, changes in the features of the earth and the universe and the cycles of time.

Accompanying the music is a booklet of archaeological images created by Forestry Commission Scotland, detailing some of the sites around which the music is based, again utilising modern laser scanning technology to see these mysterious relics in a different light.

credits

released July 1, 2015

• - Wounded Knee - vocals, guitar, banjo, shruti, percussion, production.

o - Lord Of The Isles - synths, field recordings, production.

O - Other Lands - bouzouki, harmonium, harp, synths, field recordings, percussion, production.

∆ - House Of Traps - field recordings.

All tracks written & produced by D. Wright, N. McDonald, G. Sutherland and L. Todd November 2014 - January 2015. Dearg Agus Dearg features a sample of 'Lament for Red Hector' played by Allan MacDonald. Special thanks to Matt Ritchie at FCS. Copyright Firecracker Recordings 2015 // FIREC015CD

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