Recorded by Paul Adams and Robert Hallard;
Produced by Paul Adams;
Photography by Archie MacFarlane;
Design by Lillias Kinsman-Blake

Musicians

Rachel Newton: harp, vocals;
Lillias Kinsman-Blake: flute
with
Paul Jennings: percussion [1-2, 5, 8, 11]

Tracks

1. Bonnie Lassie (3.09)
2. Hoi Liffie!: The New Fiddle / Sidney Grove / Hoi Liffie! (3.27)
3. Nighean nan Geng (3.24)
4. The Wrong Medicine: The Wrong Medicine / Francis Xavier Kennedy MacDonald / The Knifestone (4.25)
5. Rich Man’s Daughter (Roud 2987) (4.51)
6. Waltzes: Waltz of the Little Girls / Archie the Flying Beast (3.39)
7. Dear Someone: Dear Someone / Waltz for One (4.05)
8. Harp Set: Dresden Reel / The Berserk / The Wrong Trousers (5.08)
9. Mo Thruaigh Leir Thu Ille Bhuidhe (4.20)
10. Young Horseman (Roud 1185; G/D 8:1584; Henry H122a) (4.18)
11. Wedding Reels: Wedding Reel / Miss Girdle / Gun Anam (4.40)

Track 1 Tony Cuffe, William Jackson;
Tracks 2ac, 7b Lillias Kinsman-Blake;
Track 2b, 8c Rachel Newton;
Tracks 3, 4a, 5, 6a, 7a, 9-11 trad.;
Track 4b David Greenberg;
Track 4c Alistair Anderson;
Track 6b Tóla Custy;
Track 7a Gillian Welsh, David Rawlings;
Track 8a Paul Kelly;
Track 8b Corrina Hewat

Recorded and mixed at Mobile With a Home, Heriot Toun by Mattie Foulds;
Mastered at Castlesound Studios, Pentcaitland by Stuart Hamilton;
Photography by Somhairle MacDonald;
Design by Lillias Kinsman-Blake

Musicians

Rachel Newton: vocals, harp, electroharp, fiddle, harmonium;
Kris Drever: vocals, guitar, mandolin;
Mattie Foulds: percussion

Tracks

1. Lady Diamond (Roud 112; Child 269; G/D 6:1224) (4.16)
2. Rung 2 (4.20)
3. Green Willow (Roud 172; Child 24; G/D 6:1225) (3.40)
4. ’S Toil Leam Chruinneag Dhonn nam Bo (3.16)
5. The Discoboat (3.22)
6. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (3.37)
7. The Last Minute / The Groupie / Height of Rudeness (3.30)
8. Must I Be Bound? (Roud 18829; Henry H218ab) (3.01)
9. The Shadow Side (3.55)
10. Soundboards and Sockets (4.26)
11. Am Bruadar Ud a Chunnaic Mi (3.37)

All songs trad. arr. Rachel Newton except
Track 3 trad. arr. Kris Drever, Rachel Newton;
Track 6 Hank Williams arr. Rachel Newton;
All instrumental tracks/tunes composed by Rachel Newton

Video

Recorded and mixed at Mobile With a Home, Heriot Toun by Mattie Foulds;
Mastered at Castlesound Studios, Pentcaitland by Stuart Hamilton;
Album design and concept by Lillias Kinsman-Blake

Musicians

Rachel Newton: vocals, viola, harp, electroharp, Rhodes piano;
Corrina Hewat: backing vocals;
Lauren MacColl: fiddle;
Su-a Lee: cello, musical saw;
Mattie Foulds: percussion;
Alec Frank-Gemmil: horn;
Adam Holmes: vocals [6]

Tracks

1. Mo Chùbhrachan (The Fairy Lullaby) (5.46)
2. The Changeling Reel (2.41)
3. Queen of Elfan’s Nourice (Roud 3723; Child 40; G/D 2:328) (4.16)
4. When I’m Gone (2.13)
5. Three Days (6.00)
6. The Fairy Man (3.58)
7. A Phiùthrag’s a Phiuthar (3.50)
8. Up the Lum: The Eggshell Brewery / Up the Lum (3.31)
9. The Changeling Air (3.30)

All music written by Rachel Newton;
Track 3 words trad.;
Track 6 words Sidney Goodsir Smith;
Track 7 trad. arr. Rachel Newton;

Video

The Fairy Man

Mo Chùbhrachan (Fairy Lullaby)

Eggshell Brewery

Links

• Rachel Newton talks about Changeling at Celtic Music Radio on 2 February 2014
• Amazing Radio session, 28 October 2014

Recorded and mixed at Caribou Recording by Mattie Foulds;
Mastered at Castlesound Studios by Stuart Hamilton;
Produced by Rachel Newton and Mattie Foulds;
Photography and design by Somhairle MacDonald

Musicians

Rachel Newton: vocals, harps, piano, keyboards;
Mattie Foulds: drums;
Lauren MacColl: fiddle, viola;
Michael Owers: sousaphone, trombone, flugelhorn

Tracks

1. Here’s My Heart Come Take It (Roud 443; Laws H12) (3.11)
2. Gura Mise Tha Fo Mhulad (I Am Full of Sorrow) (3.34)
3. The Bloody Gardener (Roud 1700) (5.28)
4. Don’t Go Out Tonight, My Darling (Roud 3521) (2.54)
5. Chaidh Mo Dhonnchadh Dhan Bheinn (My Duncan Went to the Hill) (4.42)
6. Proud Maisrie (Roud 339; Child 219; G/D 4:840) (5.46)
7. Poor Lost Babe (Roud 15856) (2.36)
8. An Hour With Thee (3.30)
9. One Hour More (2.45)

Track 1 trad., from the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection, music Rachel Newton;
Tracks 4, 7 trad., from the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection;
Tracks 2-3, 5-6 trad.;
Track 8 words Sir Walter Scott, music Rachel Newton;
Track 9 Rachel Newton

Video

Recorded by Mattie Foulds in Achnahaird in Wester Ross;
Mixed and mastered by Mattie Foulds at Caribou Recording;
Photography and design by Somhairle MacDonald

Musicians

Rachel Newton: vocals, harps

Tracks

1. Gura Muladoch Sgith Mi (3.25)
2. The Maid of Neidpath (Roud 8318) (3.43)
3. Suilven (1.44)
4. Once I Had a True Love (Roud 170) (3.19)
5. Hi Horo ’s na Horo Eile (3.58)
6. Skye Air (5.01)
7. For Love (Roud 6261; G/D 6:1215) (3.30)
8. Stac Pollaidh (1.19)
9. A Token (Roud 3530) (3.22)
10. Beinn an Eoin (1.10)
11. O Cò Thogas Dhìom An Fhadachd (3.40)
12. Ben Mor Coigach (2.22)
13. Jolene (3.44)

Track 1 words based on the singing of Flora MacNeil, music based on the singing of Catriona NicCharmaig;
Track 2 words Walter Scott, music Rachel Newton;
Tracks 3, 8, 10, 12 Rachel Newton;
Track 4 trad., based on a version by Peggy Seeger;
Track 5 John Maclean of Tiree;
Track 6 trad., from the Patrick MacDonald Collection (1784);
Track 7 trad., based on the version by Willie Mathieson on Tobar an Dualchais;
Track 9 trad., based on the version by Mr Frank Pool, Fayetteville, Arkansaws, from the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection;
Track 11 trad., based on the singing of Jenna Cumming on BBC Alba Bliadhna nan òran;
Track 13 Dolly Parton

Video

A set of improvisations/sketches on electroharp inspired by the poetry of Uxue Alberdi and Ciara MacLaverty. Recorded while working on Throwing Voices for the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019.

Recorded by Mattie Foulds
Cover photo by Somhairle MacDonald

Musicians

Rachel Newton: electroharp

Tracks

1. Everything I Know Without Knowing (2.51)
2. The Big Will of the Small People (3.48)
3. Lighthouse (3.37)
4. Giant Leap (2.18)

All tracks written by Rachel Newton

Produced by Mattie Foulds and Rachel Newton;
Recorded at home in the lockdown of May/June 2020;
Mixed by Mattie Foulds at Caribou Recording;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Photography and design by Somhairle MacDonald

Folk Radio UK review by Billy Rough;
Fonancial Times review by David Honigmann

Musicians

Rachel Newton: vocals, electroharp, keys;
Lauren MacColl: violin, viola;
Mattie Foulds: drums, percussion, programming, keys;
Mikey Overs: trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, flugelhorn, electric guitar, vocals;
Sarah Hayes: vocals

Tracks

1. The Early Morning (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163) (4.38)
2. We Will Listen (4.08)
3. Chaidil Mi A-Raoir air an Airigh (4.11)
4. I Will Go (1.57)
5. To the Awe (4.13)
6. Maid by the Shore (Roud 181; Laws K27) (5.02)
7. To My Daughter (3.28)
8. Two Sisters (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213) (5.20)
9. Life and Light (1.50)
10. Would You Be Young Again (4.47)

Track 1 lyrics based on the ballad The False-Hearted Knight, Child 4;
Track 2 lyrics from the poem To Jean Ingelow by Susan Coolidge (1835-1905);
Track 3 trad., based on a version collected by the Scool of Scottish Studies and sung by Captain Donald Joseph MacKinnon;
Track 4 inprovisation by Rachel Newton and Lauren MacColl;
Track 5 lyrics from the poem The Rock of Cader Idris by Felicia Hemans (1793-1835);
Track 6, 8 trad.;
Track 7 lyrics from the poem To My Daughter on Being Separated from Her on Her Marriage by Anne Hunter (1742-1821);
Track 9 inprovisation by Rachel Newton and Mikey Owers;
Track 10 lyrics from the poem Would You Be Young Again by Carolina Oliphat / Lady Nairne (1766-1845)

Video

Rachel Newton sings To the Awe in a video made by Marry Waterson:

Rachel Newton at the Hudson Records Listening Club on 8 November 2020:

Recorded by Andy Bell at Black Bay Studios, Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis, June 2021;
Extra vocals recorded by Grant Anderson in Glasgow;
Mixed by Andy Bell;
Mastered by Dean Honer;
Photography and design by Elly Lucas;
Sleeve note text by Màiri Kidd

Folk Radio UK review by David Pratt

Musicians

Rachel Newton: harp, electric harp, vocals, piano, harmonium, synthesisers, kalimba, spoken word;
Lauren MacColl: fiddle, viola, harmonium, mandolin, spoken word

with
Andy Bell: pocket piano, found sound

Tracks

1. Lilias (5.23)
2. Isobel (4.02)
3. An Teine (The Fire) (3.39)
4. Da Dim (5.02)
5. Behind the Eyes (4.34)
6. Corp-crèadha (Figure of Clay) (2.51)
7. Judge Not (3.18)
8. Màiri (3.30)
9. Cutty Sark (4.12)
10. Eachlair (4.29)

All music written and arranged by Rachel Newton and Lauren MacColl, based on the writing of Màiri Kidd, except
Track 8 words and melody an extract from Mo Chràdhgal Bochd (Sad and Heartsore My Weeping) by Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruadh (c.1615-c.1707)
Track 9 words an extract from Tam o’ Shanter by Robert Burns pub. 1791;
Track 10 charm in Gaelic taken from Carmina Gadelica by Alexander Carmichael pub. 1900

Produced by Heal & Harrow (Rachel Newton & Lauren MacColl);
Recording, Editing and Sound Design by Grant Anderson;
All music taken from the album Heal & Harrow, originally recorded by Andy Bell;
Heal & Harrow logo by Elly Lucas

Tracks

1. Lilias - read by Gerda Stevenson (27.06)
2. Isobel - read by Kathryn Joseph (7.46)
3. An Teine - read by Màiri Kidd (16.18)
4. Da Dim - read by Inge Thomson (32.49)
5. Behind the Eyes - read by Len Pennie (10.16)
6. Corp-crèadha (Figure of Clay) - read by Cass Ezeji (12.19)
7. Judge Not - read by Cora Bissett (15.27)
8. Màiri - read by Deirdre Graham (11.21)
9. Cutty Sark - read by Annie Grace (12.43)
10. Eachlair - read by Alyth McCormack (11.58)

All words by Màiri Kidd, available as part of her book We Are All Witches, Black & White Publishing, 2022

Sealladh (pronounced ‘shall-ugh’) began as a commission for the National Galleries of Scotland, celebrating over eighty years of live music programming at the Gallery. The commission also coincided with the opening of the new Scottish Galleries, home to the vast collection of artworks by Scottish painters, a selection of which both inspired and are in conversation with Newton’s music. Each track on the album is based on a particular painting and draws on the mythology, language, history, culture and landscapes that originally set the scene for these artworks.

Produced by Andy Bell and Rachel Newton;
Recorded by Andy Bell at Heriot Toun;
Found sounds recorded by Grant Anderson;
Mixed by Andy Bell at Hudson Studios;
Mastered by Sam Proctor at Lismore Mastering;
Cover photography by Somhairle MacDonald;
Design by Robin Beatty

All artworks in the collection of National Galleries of Scotland. Images courtesy of National Galleries of Scotland.

Musicians

Rachel Newton: vocals, harp, electroharp, synthesisers, piano;
Alice Allen: cello, shaker;
Andy Bell: synthesisers and sounds;
Grant Anderson: found sound recording

Tracks

LP Side 1

1. The Entrance (1.27)
2. Saint Bride (2.49)
3. Deirdre of the Sorrows (4.27)
4. Machrihanish Bay (5.59)
5. The Sailing of the Emigrant Ship (4.58)
6. The Stress (2.23)

LP Side 2

7. The Storm (3.49)
8. Despair (1.48)
9. Quiet Sunset, Machrihanish (3.24)
10. Angus Og, God of Love and Courtesy, Putting a Spell of Summer Calm on the Sea (3.48)
11. The Victory (1.44)
12. Harvest Moon (3.17)

All tracks by Rachel Newton

Our great great Grandmother, known as Anna Bhàn, was one of a group of young women who were at the forefront of the Coigach Resistance of 1852/53. The events that formed the resistance were among only a few that were successful during the Highland Clearances in the lead up to the Napier Commission and the Crofting Act of 1886. We’ve always been aware of the story, but the recent plans of Coigach Heritage to commission a sculpture by Will Maclean RSA and Marian Leven RSA in honour of these women galvanised us to come together to make music and art that celebrates and remembers Anna Bhàn and the rest of the community.

To find out more about the history and the sculpture, visit Lorg na Còigich / Coigach Heritage.

Produced, recorded and mixed by Andy Bell;
Recorded by Andy Bell at Gran’s House Studio;
Additional recording by Grant Anderson and Mairearad Green;
Mastered by Sam Proctor;
Photography by Somhairle MacDonald;
Artwork and design by Mairearad Green

Folking.com review

Musicians

Mairearad Green: smallpipes, accordion, shruti box, piano, vocals;
Rachel Newton: harp, viola, vocals;
Ali Mcleod: spoken word;
Andy Bell: pocket piano

Tracks

1. Anna Bhàn (4.13)
2. Achnahaird (3.55)
3. 1852 (3.45)
4. The Burning of the Writs (5.49)
5. Not Today, Nor Tomorrow (3.50)
6. Lady Stafford (4.36)
7. Ceit Bheag (4.41)
8. The Wick Fishermen (3.29)
9. Am Banais (3.11)
10. Tha Sinn an Seo (3.33)

All tracks written by Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton