Calanais

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1996

Labels: Blue Moon Producciones Discográficas, An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway

Project financially assisted by:
The Scottish Arts Council, Foundation for Sport and the Arts, Highland sand Islands Enterprisem National Gaelic Arts Project.

Sponsored By:
The Scottish Trades Union, Eolas, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank Of Scotland, Kenneth MacLennan Oils Ltd.

An Lanntair Arts Centre was opened in Stornoway in 1985. To celebrate its 10th Anniversary, in association with the National Gaelic Arts Project, we have created a major thematic project on a compelling aspect of our cultural and historical legacy. It has involved artists and musicians of national and international repute.

The standing Stones of Calanais (Challanish) on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis are among the World's great prehistoric monuments. Older than the pyramids, their inmmense age have made it impossible to do more than speculate on their origins and function. In modern times they have become a destination for travellers from around the globe.

Calanais will remain an enigma in perpetuity. This recording represents a consensus of highly personal responses to the mistery and is a valid and colse to definitive 'answer' as we can hope for, some 5.000 years after the megaliths were raised.

Roddy Murray, Director
Ken Kennedy : Chairman