Our favourite bothy botherers Mac-Talla Nan Creag (comprised of Hoch Ma Toch, Other Lands and Lord Of The Isles) return to Firecracker Recordings, channeling ancient rites, the mysteries of the Scottish landscape and its elements through technologies both old and new for your listening pleasure.

This time round the archaeological work of Forestry Commission Scotland at Dun Deardail in Glen Nevis, and the links between that site and the ancient Celtic myth ‘The Sorrow Of Derdriu’ provided fertile ground for new exploration and response. Accompanying the music once again will be a lush booklet containing some of the stunning imagery that results from the work FCS have done there, all packaged and silk-screened with the usual finesse we've come to expect from Firecracker Recordings and their chief visionary House Of Traps.

Captured in part in a high vaulted medieval church, then in home studios, bouncing ideas back and forth over the internet, MTNC have once again drawn on field recordings, traditional instrumentation, analogue electronics and the simple power of the human voice to create a shimmering and expansive song cycle.

Whereas the first album was borne out of an intense period of field trips and whisky fuelled jam sessions in brochs and had a loose approach overall, the second is perhaps more focussed in its themes relating to the ancient tale - love, war, beauty and tragedy all intertwined - and they arguably go deeper this time, conjuring up something of the Fourth World feel, by way of the Firth Of Forth.

With additional contributions from Professor John Kenny - whose primal Zummoesque playing on a range of horns including a giant conch shell and a replica of the ancient Deskford carynx underpins several tracks on the album - and Eva Sutherland (daughter of Other Lands) who provides a reading from the myth at the very beginning, this is an album that not only carries the heaviness of history but also looks to the light of the future.'

>> Coming in late November 2018 as 2x12", CD and digital. Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub.

FIREC027LP Mac-Talla Nan Creag 'The Sorrow Of Derdriu'

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AKA Drew Wright, singer from Edinburgh, Scotland.  Formerly known as Wounded Knee.  Also a member of Mac-Talla Nan Creag on Firecracker Recordings

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Releases on 9128.live, Apartment Records, Castles in Space, Further Records, Frequency Domain, Going In, Mysteries of the Deep, Quiet Details, Bleep43 Recordings. Bleep43 crew and Huggy Bear guitarist once upon a time. 

17/08/25 - London, System Revival (live)
23/08/25 - Strasbourg, 30 years of Interdimensional Transmissions (DJ)
19/09/25 - Ramsgate Music Hall (live)
20/09/25 - Brighton, Dust (live)
24/10/25 - London, Rich Mix (live)
01/11/25 - Liverpool, Levitation – Castles in Space (live)
11-21 Dec - Japan (TBC)

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26/10/24 - Salon Ambientu (Up To Date Festival), Warsaw (live)
05/10/24 - Levitation (Castles in Space), Bedford (live)
24/08/24 - Sonic Commune, London (DJ set)
07/07/24 - Freerotation, Wales (live)
27/05/24 - Going In, Detroit (DJ set x Imaginary Softwoods)
26/05/24 - No Way Back, Detroit (live)
18/05/24 - Bleep43, London (live)
05/07/23 - Zyggurat+Clay Pipe album launch, London (live)
16/06/23 - System Revival, Iklectik, London (live)
19/05/23 - Levitation (Castles in Space), Whitby (live)
21/04/23 - Variations - Mysteries of the Deep, NYC (live)
15/04/23 - Castles in Space, Manchester (live)
10/07/22 - Freerotation Festival, Wales (live)
27/02/2022 - Going In (stream), The Bunker NY (live)
18/04/2021 - En Pausa (stream) + 9128.live (collab with Hilary Robinson)
28/03/2021 - Going In (stream), The Bunker NY (live)
01/09/19 - Parallel Festival, Spain (live)
06/07/18 - Freerotation, Wales (live)
14/06/18 - Field Records / Samsara Sessions, Berlin (live)
09/06/18 - Bleep43, London (live)
14/12/17 Cafe Oto, London (live)
24/11/17 Pickle Factory, London (live)
July 2016 Freerotation, Wales (live)
July 2015 Freerotation, Wales (live)
June 2015 Cube Cinema, Bristol 2015 (live AV collab with Plant43)
May 2015 The Purcell Room, Southbank (live AV collab with Plant43)