This music was originally commissioned by Celtic Connections Festival in 2003 as part of its New Voices series.

Produced by Aidan O’Rourke;
Recorded by Ian Graham at Paw Paw Productions, Glasgow except
Tracks 6, 9 recorded by Mattie Foulds at The Bothy, Walkerburn,
tracks 7-8 recorded by Dave Paterson at Cava Sound Workshops, Glasgow;
Mixed by Aidan O’Rourke, Donald Shaw and Paul McGeechan;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Photography and design by Craig MacKay

Musicians

Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle;
Harald Haugaard, Charlie McKerron, Gordon Gunn: fiddles;
Luke Daniels: melodeon;
Brian Finnegan: flutes, whistles;
Phil Bancroft: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone [3];
Fraser Fifield: soprano saxophone;
Colin Stelle: trumpet;
Marc Clement: guitar;
Foss Paterson: piano;
Ewen Vernal: double bass;
Mattie Foulds: drums

Tracks

1. Falun Fine (Outbound) (4.12)
2. Bah Hamburg (6.33)
3. Mangersta Beach (4.22)
4. Lochaber Drive (6.31)
5. The Santa Cruz Redwoods (6.34)
6. Hinba (4.44)
7. People’s Park (7.10)
8. People’s Park (Part 2) (2.23)
9. Alyth (3.29)
10. Falun Fine (Return) (5.52)

All tracks written and arranged by Aidan O’Rourke

New music commissioned to celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of An Tobar, The Tobermory Arts Centre.

Produced by Aidan O’Rourke;
Recorded by Gordon MacLean at An Tobar, The Tobermory Arts Centre, in June 2007;
Mastered by Calum Malcolm;
Portrait of Aidan O’Rourke by Craig MacKay;
All other images by Dalziel + Scullion;
Illustration and design by Monkey With a Pen;
Illustration based on an original map by Joannes Blaeu

Musicians

Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle;
Catriona McKay: Scottish harp;
Phil Bancroft: tenor saxophone;
Martin Green: accordion, samples, effects;
Martin O’Neill: bodhrán, percussion;
Kirsty MacKinnon: vocals

Tracks

1. An Tobar (9.53)
2. Sea (9.17)
3. Tobar Nan Ealain (5.22)
4. One for Martyn (8.29)
5. Eas Fors (9.03)

All tracks written and arranged by Aidan O’Rourke;
Track 3 words by Aonghas MacNeacail, music by Aidan O’Rourke, arr. Aidan O’Rourke, Phil Bancroft, Martin Green, Martin O’Neill, Catriona McKay

Produced by Aidan O’Rourke;
Recorded by Gordon MacLean at An Tobar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull;
Mastered by Calum Malcolm;
Photography by Peter McNally;
Artwork and design by Martin Roswell

Musicians

Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle;
Catriona McKay: Scottish harp;
Phil Bancroft: tenor saxophone;
Martin O’Neill: bodhrán, percussion;
Paul Harrison: piano, synthesiser

Tracks

1. Tat-1 (6.22)
2. Clarenville (10.55)
3. Hotline (6.43)
4. HMTS Monarch (7.30)
5. Gallanach Bay (9.36)

All tracks written and arranged by Aidan O’Rourke

Produced by Aidan O’Rourke;
Recorded by Aidan O’Rourke at Heriot Toun Studio;
Mixex by Mattie Foulds at Mobile With a Home;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton;
Cover artwork by Yumi Okada;
Photography by Dalziel + Scullion;
Sleeve design by Martin Rowsell

Musicians

Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle, electronics, other noises;
Graeme Stephen: guitar [1, 4];
John Blease: drums, percussion [1]

Tracks

1. Tumadh (15.26)
2. Immersion (4.27)
3. Infuse My Eyes With Molten Grey Skies (11.39)
4. Feel the Pulse of This Place (5.12)

All tracks written and arranged by Aidan O’Rourke

Commisioned by Deveron Arts, Huntly, Aberdeenshire

Produced by Aidan O’Rourke;
Recorded by Stuart Hamilton on location in Huntly, Aberdeenshire;
Additional recording at Heriot Toun Studios;
Mixed and mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Cover photography by Aidan O’Rourke;
Additional photography by James Dyas Davidson;
Design by Martin Rowsell

Musicians

Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle, electronics;
John Blease: drums;
Anna Meredith: electronics;
Tom Rogerson: piano, keyboards

Tracks

1. The Burn of the Shelter (5.00)
2. Wolf Monk (4.54)
3. Rhynie (5.36)
4. The Cabrach (3.29)
5. The Ardlair Tuning Folk (4.38)

Track 1 written by Aidan O’Rourke, featuring the voices of the Sheed family, Aldunie;
Tracks 2-5 Aidan O’Rourke, John Blease, Anna Meredith, Tom Rogerson

Tunes written in response to James Robertson’s stories in his book 365: Stories.

Produced by Aidan O’Rourke;
Recorded by Mattie Foulds at Caribou Recording;
Mixed by Calum Malcolm;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Images by Dalziel + Scullion;
Design by Martin Rowsell

Musicians

Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle;
Kit Downes: harmonium, piano

Tracks

CD 1

1. Nobody could be one hundred percent sure about the last tiger (2.41)
2. ‘Do people still do this?’ (4.31)
3. Every morning she steps out of the back door (2.45)
4. Her feet padding back (1.16)
5. A fox and a hound met early one morning on a hillside (4.34)
6. He looked at his right hand (2.O8)
7. It was the savage boys watching from the cliffs (3.05)
8. It was an experiment (2.19)
9. The room is in darkness (3.05)
10. You forget more than you retain, and that’s the truth (2.22)
11. Awake isn’t good (4.39)

CD 2

12. I don’t know beforehand how I will appear to anyone (4.33)
13. Lying awake in the middle of the night (2.42)
14. Sometimes he felt he could live permanently in a hotel (2.32)
15. I used not to be able to read on buses (3.26)
16. The phone rang just as she’d got the children to the table (3.24)
17. They were passing the end of a particular street (2.57)
18. ‘Jack,’ his mother says one day, ‘that auld dug has had it’ (2.35)
19. There was once a man so old that most of his family, and all of his friends, had left the world long before him (3.11)
20. When I was still some distance from the village (2.17)
21. At the interval, as the applause dies away and people begin to make for the exits (5.29)
22. ‘Now,’ the old woman said, ‘before you go up there I want to introduce you to someone” (2.20)

All tunes written by Aidan O’Rourke, Kit Downes

Tunes written in response to James Robertson’s stories in his book 365: Stories.

Produced by Aidan O’Rourke;
Recorded and mixed by Mattie Foulds at Caribou Recording;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Images by Dalziel + Scullion;
Design by Martin Rowsell

Musicians

Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle;
Kit Downes: harmonium, piano

Tracks

CD 1

1. For about a month (3.51)
2. Now, you know about clootie wells, do you? (3.12)
3. The film was preceded by a warning that it contained some moderate violence (1.58)
4. That braggart has it coming to him (2.50)
5. We drove down the road, saddened by my father’s decline (2.23)
6. I met him only once (3.03)
7. ‘That place,’ mick said. ‘Christ, what a hole.’ (3.23)
8. Bill was already at his window (2.37)
9. They’d start their calling around midnight (3.06)
10. The opening shot is of a flat, cold, grey expanse of water with the dawn coming up (2.02)
11. It was an afternoon of possible magic (2.42)
12. Some stories are so good that they deserve repeating in every generation (3.26 )

CD 2

1. I had been walking a long time (3.19)
2. It was the day of the great unveiling (2.14)
3. Jack is leaning out of his window one night, admiring the full moon (2.58)
4. ‘Right, William, trolley duty,’ kev said (1.53)
5. The girl climbed the stairs to bed (2.46)
6. Douglas and Aileen stood in front of the blue plaque (2.01)
7. I was riding on a Greyhound bus, seeking some place to hide (3.11)
8. She picked up the letter again (2.49)
9. There’s a rumour going round, we don’t know what it is, but we all get in line (1.56)
10. Off the motorway and onto the short cut, over the hill (2.40)
11. My father and i are reading the papers (3.11)
12. One day she decided to open her own library (2.18)
13. On this day, the first recorded total eclipse of scotland took place (2.23)

All tunes written by Aidan O’Rourke, Kit Downes

Tunes written in response to James Robertson’s stories in his book 365: Stories.

Produced by Aidan O’Rourke;
Recorded and mixed by Mattie Foulds at Caribou Recording;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Images by Dalziel + Scullion;
Design by Martin Rowsell

Musicians

Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle;
Kit Downes: harmonium, piano;
Esther Swift: harp;
Sorren MacLean: guitar

Tracks

CD 1

1. They were sitting against the back wall of the pub (2.41)
2. She put on the headphones, selected shuffle (3.12)
3. Some stories are so good that they deserve repeating in every generation (3.25)
4. Is that what brought you all the way up here? (3.10)
5. Where did he come from, that man with the shining smile? (2.46)
6. This morning you take a stroll out to the Pictish stone (3.19)
7. She picked up the letter again (2.49)
8. ‘Leon!’ he called, not loudly (3.00)
9. We drove down the road, saddened by my father’s decline (2.21)
10. We would never have gone out if we had not intended to return (3.26)
11. When I was appointed to my present position three years ago (3.19)
12. In this film from 1950 (2.15)
13. That braggart has it coming to him (2.49)
14. Dinner was over (3.11)
15. Nobody could be a hundred per cent sure about the last tiger (2.42)

CD 2

16. There she stood in her finery, taking the air, tall, handsome, proud (2.14)
17. My father and I are reading the papers (3.09)
18. I remember Daft Davie standing at the top of the hill (1.46)
19. It was an afternoon of possible magic (2.40)
20. Jack was walking by the lochside (2.37)
21. I used not to be able to read on buses (3.24)
22. The room is in darkness (3.05)
23. Once, when I was about thirteen (1.56)
24. Do people still do this? (4.31)
25. They’d start their calling around midnight (3.04)
26. I met him only once (3.05)
27. Before the beginning there was nothing (2.14)
28. ‘See that?’ (2.36)
29. Jack was walking by the sea (2.14)
30. Now here are our main stories again (2.34)

All tunes written by Aidan O’Rourke, Kit Downes

Produced by Aidan O’Rourke;
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Images by Alastair Cole and Lindsay Brown;
Design by Martin Elden

Musicians

Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle;
Graeme Stephen: guitar;
Thomas Gibbs: harmonium, piano;
Brìghde Chaimbeul: Scottish smallpipes;
Lizabett Russo: vocals;
Lucy Railton: cello;
Adam Kinner: saxophone;
Sorley MacLean: voice, recorded Edinburgh, 1974 [2];
Donald Alex MacDonald: vocals, recorded Harris, 1968 [5];
Pggy MacCuish, voice: recorded Harris, 1968 [7];
Penny MacLennan, vocals: recorded Hacleit, Benbecula, 1965 [7];
Peggy MacRae, vocals: recorded Canna, 1951 [9]

Tracks

1. The Kaylana (Introduction) (1.04)
2. Iorram (4.31)
3. The Herring Girls and the Barra Boys (3.28)
4. Am Bòchdan (2.22)
5. Óran nan Sgalpach (2.21)
6. The Kaylana (Introduction 2) (1.14)
7. Fuadaichean nan Gaidheal / O Hó Hoireann ó, Tha Mi ann am Èiginn (8.35)
8. The Sandbank and the Whale (1.58)
9. Fhir a’ Bhata / Nuair Thàinig Àm an Iasgaich (3.39)
10. The Kaylana (3.40)
11. The Six Widows (3.30)
12. Iorram (Reprise 2) (6.55)

All music written and arranged by Aidan O’Rourke except
Track 5 Donald Alex MacDonald, arr. Aidan O’Rourke;
Tracks 7, 9 trad. arr. Aidan O’Rourke

Recorded live by Andrea Gobbi at Bannview Studios;
Mixed and mastered by Andrea Gobbi at GloWorm Recording;
Design by Somhairle MacDonald;
Painting “A coalesence of biological solidarity” by Somhairle MacDonald

Folk Radio UK review by Thomas Blake

Musicians

Brìghde Chaimbeul: C smallpipes;
Ross Ainslie: C smallpipes;
Steven Byrnes: guitar, mandola

Tracks

1. Green Light Set: Green Light of the Lonely Souls / Bob the Banter / Peel Pier Fear / Castlerock Road (6.54)
2. Bulgarian: Tapani i Gaidi (5.27)
3. The Badger / The Weasel (6.26)
4. Gavotte Pourlet (3.55)
5. John Patterson’s Mare (3.30)
6. Dod’s: Dod’s Tartan Punk Rock Trews / Waiting for Janet / L’Angliru (4.53)
7. Strathspeys and Reels: Rothiemurchus Rant / Munlochy Bridge / Lord Macdonald’s / Mary Ann MacIsaac’s (3.52)
8. Lichko Lio (5.30)
9. Irish Teampall An Ghleanntain / Garrett Barry’s / Malfunction Junction / Wild Irishman (4.26)
10. Susi and Ben’s: Susi and Ben’s / Up the Whangie / The Rambling Pair (6.28)

Tracks 1a-c, 6a, 10a-c Ross Ainslie;
Track 1d Damien O’Kane;
Track 2 trad. Bulgarian;
Tracks 3ab Brìghde Chaimbeu;
Track 4-5, 7a-d, 8, 9a-d trad.;
Track 6b Andy Cutting;
Track 6c Javier Tejedor