Hamish Napier

Description

The Hill is the 4th instalment of Hamish Napier’s pentalogy of music inspired by the landscape and the people of Badenoch & Strathspey.

Acclaimed Scottish musician and composer Hamish Napier returns with The Hill, the fourth and most expansive album in his acclaimed Strathspey Pentalogy: a five-album celebration of his native Badenoch and Strathspey, in the Scottish Highlands.

Themed around the mountains and braes that feed the River Spey, including the Monadhliath and Cairngorms, The Hillevokes the element of wind, drawing inspiration from the wild uplands, strong weather systems, wildlife, folklore and living traditions of the Cairngorm plateau.

The Hill CD comes in a truly stunning 3-fold digipack (6 pages), containing:

• an epic 32-page, 14,000-word booklet with Gaelic terms used in local mountain placenames.
• Highland folklore and the compositional approaches are also explored.
• beautifully detailed drawings of the heart of the Cairngorms by Somhairle MacDonald
• stunning landscape photography by David Russell of Highland Wildscapes.

….all in all: you get an album of new original music, a map, a piece of artwork and a booklet of Gaelic hill names!