Ross Little Music
Corrimony EP
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This album has been a culmination of my experience and exploration of the landscape which has inspired the music below.
Carnoch
Originally a two-up two-down cottage which was later extended to become a more spacious dwelling. This warren like cottage resides in an expansive garden with a pond and small forest. Occupied until recently, this house that was once full of life is left as a time capsule filled with objects and treasures from bygone eras, and is now slowly decaying with time.
Old Corrimony
Built in 1740 by the Grant family, this Georgian building sits in modest grandeur within its front lawn, walled garden, and adjacent clusters of trees to cloak it in an idyllic bubble of history and time yet with a present function still as a private home.
Allegedly spared from the burning by Hanoverian soldiers following the battle of Culloden by the tenacity of the then Lady of the house.
Shallager
Inscription reads as follows:
‘1920-1932
A most faithful friend and unfailing companion unrivalled.
Retriever
Fisherman
Foxhunter
Deer-Stalker
And
Ratter.
Irreplaceable and forever missed.’
This 8ft stone grave with lead letters on the inscription commemorating Shallager the Labrador.
Reflections
Allegedly the favourite spot on the hill for Frank Wallace (1881-1962) grandfather of the current owner of Old Corrimony and Carnoch with this hill land which acts as a family cemetery. This spot encourages quiet reflection and contemplation peacefully placed with a lone tree in a greater open wilderness.
Stac
A mile long, this loch with a three-storey bothy at the near shore sits on the boundaries of the former Corrimony estate. Now left as a shell, the bygone days of Victorian shooting parties have given way to the modernity of renewable energy in the forms of windmills and a dam at the far end.
Suidh Ghuirmein
Translating to Gorman’s Seat and named after the missionary Gorman who according to tradition came the Braes of Urquhart to evangelise the local people. Allegedly these ancient saints gave their names to numerous hills in the areas in which they were spreading Christianity