Turn Ye To Me – Turning the Elements

We asked poets Jane McKie and Stewart Sanderson and composers Rebecca Rowe and Stuart Murray Mitchell to create new works for us inspired by the early 19th century song Turn Ye To Me. The resulting poems delve into the natural life of the Scottish seascape, and our human relationship with it. These two suites are complemented here on the album by a much more urban feeling song from alternative pop artist Beck (arranged by Joanna Nicholson), and a composition by Joanna using the text of Nan Shepherd’s poem Lux Perpetua, which we are very grateful to have permission to use – the themes of which draw the album together in a kind of resolution; the magnificent indifference of the natural world to human concerns, religion, even time itself.