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01. SALM - Psalm 16: 8-9: Kilmarnock: Calum Martin (Tong)
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02. SALM - Psalm 9: 10-11: Montrose, Angus Graham (Barvas)
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03. SALM - Psalm 48: 13-14: St David: Rev James Maciver (Knock)
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04. SALM - Psalm 57: Verse 1: Martyrdom: John Macsween (Tarbert)
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05. SALM - Psalm 79: 3-4: Martyrs: Donald J Macdonald (Barvas)
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06. SALM - Psalm 63: 2-3: New London: Donald Macleod (Bayble)
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07. SALM - Psalm 103: 1-2: Dundee: Rev Neil Shaw (Conon-Bridge)
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08. SALM - Psalm 16: 5-7: Moravia: Kenneth A Makay (Vig)
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09. SALM - Psalm 13: 1-2: Walsall: Murdo Maclennan (Marvig)
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10. SALM - Psalm 45: 13-14: Bedford: Murdo Kennedy (Marvig)
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11. SALM - Psalm 22: 1-2: Bangor: Iain Macaskill (Tolsta)
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12. SALM - Psalm 133: Stornoway: John Murdo Martin (Portree)
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ARTIST
SALM
TITLE
Salm: Gaelic Psalms from the Hebrides of Scotland, Volume One
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ARC LIGHT EDITIONS
CATALOG #
ALE 007LP
ALE 007LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
2/23/2018
The recordings of Gaelic Psalm singing presented in
Salm: Gaelic Psalms from the Hebrides of Scotland
are among the best ever captured. They document a living tradition, a form of religious singing from the Hebrides in Scotland, which is still practiced in Lewis. In Gaelic psalm singing, a precentor leads, and from here voices follow, moving together in great swells like the murmurations of birds. These recordings of Gaelic Psalm singing were originally made over two evenings in the Back Free Church on the Isle of Lewis in October 2003. The singing was spontaneous and totally unrehearsed. The recordings are now presented on vinyl for the first time by Arc Light Editions. This is music that is transcendent and together, about the individual and the earth, movingly spiritual with or without belief. The sound comes in great waves, swells of sound that break and roll around the space. The texture relies on the individuals: this is group singing where the individual is preserved, elevated, but together. A precentor leads off with the first lines of a psalm, and the congregation follows, some faster than others, and each one remains discernible. In his notes to the original release,
Calum Martin
writes that the form, called precenting (where one person puts out the line and the congregation responds) while not exclusive to Gaelic free church traditions, is in Lewis particularly influenced by the pibroch style of free ornamentation. It's through this, he says, that the distinctive emotional swell of sound emerges. The sound relies on the congregation's individual responses to the melody and the individual precentor's leading. The musical term is free heterophony. Arc Light Editions has worked directly with
DR Macdonald
at the Bethesda Hospice and Calum Martin on this release. A portion of the profits from this release go directly to Bethesda Hospice, in accordance with the original release. Comes in a kraftliner sleeve printed in white litho; Artwork by
Jennifer Lucy Allan
.
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