We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Limited Edition CD with 6 Page Booklet
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The first release of traditional Tales and harp by Highland Storyteller, Scot AnSgeulaiche. This collection contains music, song, Tale and features guest vocalists Rena Gertz and Margaret Bennett. The Highland and Scottish west coast tradition blends with electro-acoustic and ambient studio techniques. Many of the recordings having been made live in the now rare Highland Cèilidh. This limited edition, hand-numbered CD (200) comes with a 6 page booklet uncovering the songs and Tales.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Gàir nan Clàrsach - The Harps' Cry via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

about

This Tale features the ancestor of my patron, Chief Maclean of Duart. The English version was recorded in the banqueting hall on one of my visits to Duart in 2015. The first harp melody is my wife, Sam, playing harp in the wind. This gives way to the central tune of Fingal's Cave which I learnt through Natalie Macmaster. It’s named for a great sea-cave on the island of Staffa, a basaltic rock once the centre of the Mull volcano. The four location recordings are: a skylark at Cnoc Filibhear Beag, the finest stone circle in Celtdom; the surf I recorded at Bagh na Curragh, Iona, a neighbouring island to Staffa; the hollow drone sound at the start of Fingal's Cave (4:36) is wind in railings at Kilt Rock, another basaltic formation, this time on Skye; the final recording is a curlew, the most evocative of west coast sounds, recorded not by the sea, but in the Angus hills, miles from the sea.

credits

from G​à​ir nan Cl​à​rsach - The Harps' Cry, released March 3, 2016

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Scot AnSgeulaiche image

Scot AnSgeulaiche Scotland, UK

Traditional Music and Tale from the Celtic fringe of Europe.
Very old pieces in a very modern presentation. Scot AnSgeulaiche is a Seanachaidh, or teller of Tales, from the west coast of Scotland.

contact / help

Contact Scot AnSgeulaiche

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Scot AnSgeulaiche recommends:

If you like Scot AnSgeulaiche, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now