Guardians
by Saor
Joe Lewis
Joe Lewis
Beautiful atmospheric black metal with a Scottish twist. Love it!
Favorite track: Guardians.
Kyle Weller
Kyle Weller
I ordered this album on vinyl and man was that a great idea!!!!! This album is spectacular!!! The records came undamaged and 2 weeks earlier than the estimated arrival time. The artwork and photographs are amazing and fit perfectly with the music. Best tracks are Autumn Rain and Hearth. I give it a 10/10.
Jason Boudreau
Jason Boudreau
There are some albums that get your head shaking and your body moving. There are others that put you to sleep. This album is neither. Guardians puts a lump in your throat and butterflies in your stomach. The beauty made in this journey of an album is something undescribable and well.... just listen for yourself.
Favorite track: Tears Of A Nation.
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
£6.50 GBP or more
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumStandard Jewelcase CD with 10 page booklet with lyrics.
Please read shipping & return policies before ordering: saor.bandcamp.com/policies
Includes unlimited streaming of Guardians via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 7 days£10 GBP or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumThe double LP comes with special vinyl mastering, gatefold cover and printed innersleeves.
Limited Edition Vinyl colours:
111x clear (SOLD OUT)
111x orange (SOLD OUT)
333x black
444x azure blue
Please read shipping & return policies before ordering: saor.bandcamp.com/policies
Includes unlimited streaming of Guardians via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 7 daysedition of 1000 146 remaining£25 GBP or more
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Full Digital Discography
Get all 3 Saor releases available on Bandcamp and save 15%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Guardians, Aura, and Roots.
£15.30 GBP or more (15% OFF)
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Guardians
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The Declaration
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Autumn Rain
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Hearth
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Tears Of A Nation
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credits
released November 11, 2016
All music composed and performed by Andy Marshall unless stated below.
Session musicians:
Bryan Hamilton - Drums
John Becker (www.johnbeckermusic.com) - Strings
Meri Tadić (www.irijmusic.com) - Fiddle on "Guardians" and "Hearth"
Reni McDonald Hill - Bodhrán on "The Declaration"
Kevin Murphy - Highland bagpipes
Production:
Mixed and mastered by Spenser Morris. (spensermorrisaudio@gmail.com)
Vocals and drums recorded by Reni McDonald Hill at The Cottage Studio, Cairndow, Scotland.
Guitars recorded by Martyn Moffat at Seann Druim Cottage, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Strings recorded and guitars re-amped by Spenser Morris at Decade Music studio, Chicago, US.
Fiddle recorded by Meri Tadić.
Highland bagpipes recorded by Kevin Murphy.
Artwork:
Front and back cover painted by Sebastian Wagner (www.sebastianwagner-art.com)
Inlay photography by Land of Light Photography (www.landoflight.co.uk)
Artwork edited by Northern Silence.
All music composed and performed by Andy Marshall unless stated below.
Session musicians:
Bryan Hamilton - Drums
John Becker (www.johnbeckermusic.com) - Strings
Meri Tadić (www.irijmusic.com) - Fiddle on "Guardians" and "Hearth"
Reni McDonald Hill - Bodhrán on "The Declaration"
Kevin Murphy - Highland bagpipes
Production:
Mixed and mastered by Spenser Morris. (spensermorrisaudio@gmail.com)
Vocals and drums recorded by Reni McDonald Hill at The Cottage Studio, Cairndow, Scotland.
Guitars recorded by Martyn Moffat at Seann Druim Cottage, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Strings recorded and guitars re-amped by Spenser Morris at Decade Music studio, Chicago, US.
Fiddle recorded by Meri Tadić.
Highland bagpipes recorded by Kevin Murphy.
Artwork:
Front and back cover painted by Sebastian Wagner (www.sebastianwagner-art.com)
Inlay photography by Land of Light Photography (www.landoflight.co.uk)
Artwork edited by Northern Silence.
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about
Saor Scotland, UK
Atmospheric music from Scotland inspired by Scottish heritage, Highland nature/landscapes and traditional poetry.
Contact: fortriuprod@gmail.com
Bookings:
saorbooking@gmail.com
shows
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Jul 14Glasgow, UK
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Jul 15London, UK
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Jul 20Bourg-en-Bresse, France
discography
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Nov 2016 -
Jun 2014 -
May 2013
contact / help
- Track Name: Guardians
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The hue of her waters is crimsoned with slaughters,
And the blood of the martyrs has reddened the clay;
And dark desolation broods over the nation,
For the faithful are perished, the good are away.
On the mountains of heather they slumber together.
On the wastes of the moorland their bodies decay.
How sound is their sleeping, how safe is their keeping
Though far from their kindred they molder away.
Oh, never to perish, their names let us cherish,
The martyrs of Scotland that now are away. - Track Name: The Declaration
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By oppression's woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!—
Let us do or die! - Track Name: Autumn Rain
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Full of grief, the low winds sweep
O'er the sorrow-haunted ground;
Dark the woods where night rains weep,
Dark the hills that watch around.
Tell me, can the joys of spring
Ever make this sadness flee,
Make the woods with music ring,
And the streamlet laugh for glee?
Sad shall it be, though sun be shed
Golden bright on field and flood;
E'en the heather's crimson red
Holds the memory of blood.
Noble dead that sleep below,
We your valour ne'er forget;
Soft the heroes' rest who know
Hearts like theirs are beating yet. - Track Name: Hearth
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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
I've wandered through the ancient glens
Where the air is filled with sorrow
and climbed to the highest of peaks
Walked amongst the haunted ruins of my nation
There's nowhere I'd rather be
This is my home
My heart
My soul
My hearth - Track Name: Tears Of A Nation
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Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn
Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn!
Thy sons, for valour long renown'd,
Lie slaughter'd on their native ground
Thy hospitable roofs no more
Invite the stranger to the door:-
In smoky ruins sunk they lie,
The monuments of cruelty
