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In 2013, Orkney fiddler and photographer Louise Bichan embarked on a unique musical and sentimental journey, between her native northern isles and coast-to-coast Canada, in the footsteps of her late paternal grandmother Margaret, n\u00e9e Tait (1925-2008). The result – originally premi\u00e8red at Orkney Folk Festival in 2015, and now captured as an album – is Out of My Own Light, a suite of beautifully wrought, brilliantly captivating chamber-folk compositions, inspired by Bichan\u2019s travels and wider family recollections, together with Margaret\u2019s own diaries and correspondence.<\/p>\n
Taught by top Orkney fiddler Douglas Montgomery, Bichan has been playing since she was seven. While studying Visual Communications at Glasgow School of Art, she honed her musicianship amid that city\u2019s world-famous session scene, performing with rising stars Rachel Sermanni and Fara, before winning a scholarship to Berklee College\u2019s pioneering music programme in Boston.<\/p>\n
A 2006 trip to Canada with her own family, during which Bichan met numerous transatlantic cousins, originally planted the seed for Out of My Own Light, while the rediscovery of Margaret\u2019s diaries, after her death, gave the project its final shape. \u201cBefore she died, I had no idea about Granny\u2019s trip \u2013 it just wasn\u2019t talked about,\u201d Bichan says. \u201cThe diary for the time she was away has been lost, so I decided I\u2019d go where she\u2019d gone, talk to the cousins she\u2019d met who were still alive, and try to fill in the gaps, with the aim of writing music about the whole story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Artist website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.outofmyownlight.com<\/a><\/p>\n Single title:<\/strong> Out of My Own Light Search Terms:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Follow these topics: Featured release<\/a>, folk band<\/a>, Releases<\/a><\/p> In 2013, Orkney fiddler and photographer Louise Bichan embarked on a unique musical and sentimental journey, between her native northern isles and coast-to-coast Canada, in the footsteps of her late paternal grandmother Margaret, n\u00e9e Tait (1925-2008). The result – originally premi\u00e8red at Orkney Folk Festival in 2015, and now captured as an album – is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1456,"featured_media":3195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44,4],"tags":[83,30,132,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-3194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-release","8":"category-folk-band","9":"category-member-releases","10":"tag-fiddle","11":"tag-folk","12":"tag-scottish","13":"tag-trad","14":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2016\/11\/frontlowres.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlbum title:<\/strong> Out of My Own Light
\nRelease Date:<\/strong> 02\/12\/2016
\nSingle artist:<\/strong> Louise Bichan
\nSingle duration:<\/strong> 4.11
\nRecord Label:<\/strong> Swanbister Records
\nCatalogue No:<\/strong> SWAN001CD
\nWriters:<\/strong> Louise Bichan
\nPublishers:<\/strong> Louise Bichan
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