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01. Psalm 69: 35-36 - Torwood: Finlay MacDonald
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02. Psalm 42: 1-2 - Glencairn: Torquil MacLeod
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03. Psalm 43: 3-4 - Free Church: D R MacDonald
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04. Psalm 46: Verse 1-2 - Stroudwater: Rev R F Morrison
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05. Psalm 107: 28-30 - Kilmarnock: John MacMillan
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06. Psalm 121: 1-3 - French: Murdo MacLeod
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07. Psalm 118: 15-16 - Coleshill: D A Matheson
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08. Psalm 62: 6-7 - St Marys: Rev K M Ferguson
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09. Psalm 86: 15-16 - Evan: Rev James MacDonald
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10. Psalm 122: 1-4 - St Paul: Rev Dr I D Campbell
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11. Psalm 40: 1-3 - Ballerma: Murdo MacIver
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12. Psalm 103: 13-14 - Morven: Calum Martin
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13. Psalm 132: 14-16 - Bedford: Rev Calum MacLeod
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14. Psalm 122: 7-9 - New Cambridge: Rev C J MacLeod
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ARTIST
VA
TITLE
Salm: Gaelic Psalms from the Hebrides of Scotland, Volume Two
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ARC LIGHT EDITIONS
CATALOG #
ALE 008LP
ALE 008LP
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
12/14/2018
Following a sold-out run of
Salm, Vol. 1
(ALE 007LP, 2018) Arc Light Editions closes the year with a second volume of Gaelic psalm singing. The recordings documented here are from the same psalm singing sessions as the first, and both together represent a complete collection. 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. The recordings of Gaelic psalm singing presented in the release 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. 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, and they are to be thanked for their time. A portion of the profits from this release go directly to Bethesda Hospice, in accordance with the original release. Kraftliner sleeves printed in white litho, artwork by
Jennifer Lucy Allan
, and photography by
James Ginzburg
.
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