Today marks the release of Brìghde Chaimbeul’s ‘Carry Them with Us’ which we reviewed here. Thomas Blake opens his review:
It is a quirk of musical fate that some of the most traditional forms can produce the most experimental sounds. Brìghde Chaimbeul is an instrumentalist from Skye who is steeped in the musical and oral traditions of the islands and highlands of Scotland but whose music is as invigorating and new as anything currently being produced in either folk or contemporary avant-garde circles.
….Of course, it does your avant-garde credentials no harm at all when you’ve got a genuine giant of experimental music as your sideman. For Carry Them With Us, Brìghde Chaimbeul has enlisted the help of Canadian saxophonist Colin Stetson.
Brìghde has just shared a new video for the melancholic Pìobaireachd Nan Eun | The Birds, one of a clutch of tunes directly inspired by bird calls.
The video was conceptualised and shot by Jordan Young and John Smith.
Location:📍Cille-Mhoire, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach (Kilmuir, Isle of Skye)
The track has two distinct melodies – one mimics the song of a swan that swam on Loch Chaluim Chille. The loch was drained in 1829 in an effort to reclaim arable ground. The idea of something as alive as a body of water disappearing is kind of wild, right? We filmed on a perfect winter night in sight of the Lochan, projecting footage of Skye lasses playing in the water (including Brìghde herself) live on to the side of a ruined church.
Carry Them With Us is out 14 April 2023 on tak:til (Glitterbeat)
Order on Bandcamp: https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/carry-them-with-us