Westerfjord from Westerfjord by Colin Campbell and the Bracadale Collective

The name of the title track comes from the Viking name for Loch Bracadale, and you can still find evidence of the Viking occupation of the area. The Vikings famously used Loch Bracadale to shelter after the Battle of Largs in 1263. The words link the past with present and the (relatively) unchanging nature of the landscape. The male voice is my grandfather, James, telling how he and my granny, Mary Ann, came to Greepe from the neighbouring township of Roag in 1936. The "brassy" sound is me playing a 10m long piece of plastic tubing that we found on the beach as if it was a didgeridoo.

I'm a scientist and musician making music at the interface between indie and Scottish traditional music. My album Westerfjord is a love letter to Loch Bracadale and melds diverse influences from indie guitars to the classical music of the bagpipes and blends them with in-situ field recording, archival sound and scientific data.