Portnalong Eagle from Westerfjord by Colin Campbell and the Bracadale Collective

I was walking across the boggy terrain above the huge cliffs near Portnalong (5/4 time to signify our uneven progress) when I saw an eagle. I went across the bog as fast as I could to get to the cliff edge with the eagle nowhere to be seen. Just as I arrived, the eagle rose on a thermal right in front of my face, looked me in the eye and flew off into the distance (in 3/4 to signify its more elegant progress).

I'm a scientist and musician making music at the interface between indie and Scottish traditional music. My album Westerfjord is a love letter to Loch Bracadale and melds diverse influences from indie guitars to the classical music of the bagpipes and blends them with in-situ field recording, archival sound and scientific data.