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‘At the Heart of it All’ - the new single from Scots band Capercaillie, is a highlight from their new orchestral album ‘ReLoved’. This compelling song - about community, identity, empathy and faith, has the signature hallmarks of the band’s unique sound, including Karen Matheson’s stirring vocals and Michael McGoldrick’s beautiful Uillean pipes playing, and features the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with a cinematic arrangement. Capercaillie have been credited with being the major force in bringing traditional Celtic music to the world stage and inspiring the great resurgence so evident today - via worldwide tours, the pop charts and Hollywood films. Film footage edited from ‘Mobile Cinema’, a film made in 1951 documenting the mobile cinema van (belonging to the Highland and Islands Film Guild) as it makes its way along Argyll-shire country roads to village halls in Kilmelfort, Taynuilt, Dalmally and Kilchrenan. Courtesy of National Library of Scotland. Produced by Iain Dunnachie and edited by Sam Hurt. Courtesy of National Library of Scotland | Moving Image Archive AT THE HEART OF IT ALL Let’s go up the hillside, to the highest ridge of Storr Where the lapwing sings a eulogy, at the wonder of it all Where the evening shadows plunder, the cloak around the world We remember all the mornings, at the heart of it all At the heart of it all, is a calling to this land In the words of our salvation, is a song for the common man At the heart of it all, is a story to be told For the sake of our salvation, and the troubles we behold You can see the river rising, it’s banks will creak and slide There’s a silence in the evergreens, and a surging of the tide Well, it’s nature’s way of saying, our backs are up against the wall, By the hush of the world, in the lull before the storm Chorus The poems and the musings of Sorley MacLean; they tumble and cascade across, the page of every man They will rise and spring to life again, in a song for the good of all Where a people and their land are at, the heart of it all
