"When someone visits you in your dreams and asks you to make an album about your native region – the Orkney Islands – would you remain indifferent? Especially if that person is Betty Corrigall, an Orcadian who committed suicide in 1770 after being banished from her village for falling pregnant by a passing sailor?" This is what happened to ERLAND COOPER (frontman of ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL), and it is the source of Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North, the debut album by THE MAGNETIC NORTH (HANNAH PEEL, ERLAND COOPER, and SIMON TONG). Immersing themselves in Orcadian folklore, poetry, and geography, the trio traveled all the way to the North of Scotland, with a 1930s travel guide titled "Orkney: The Magnetic North" to compose and record the album. The local choir, complemented by lush strings and brass arrangements composed by HANNAH PEEL, transforms "Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North" into a magnificent, substantial, and enchanting album, which evokes the almost supernatural landscapes of the Orkney Islands with lyricism and finesse.
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