I remember the first time I heard this I was stunned. This being a Scottish song about the family of Pipers from the Isle of Skye and my angel bride was Scottish Irish down the middle. She loved this song but I think this version she had to absorb a bit. She had never heard Sheila and I had records of Sheila. I learned bagpipes and Brenda bought me real ones that are a treasure to me. Brenda passed in Dec. of 2014. I listened to this song for first time since then and I think this is mind boggling how Sheila catches the essence of the haunting life and death of MacCrimmon. Ot was incredible to hear this tonight. It seems I am revisiting many music memories tonight. Music has been the healing force to my existence In the last year and half. I love Sheila, I love music. I love Brenda my angel bride and Brianna Lea Pruett whose music has saved my life the last year. Check out her Gypsy Bells album and especially her song of that title. I was devastated when Brianna passed in Sept of 2015. It was like I was starting over with my grieving again. Sorry for long note. This is normal the last year and half. Love you all who love music. Music is the freedom of the soul.
I lost my girlfriend in December 2014 as well. I have been going thru this healing of music also. Listening to all of her great music and songs we loved together. She was my heart and soul! She was a great woman! Soulmates for sure! Maaaan, I love her! Sorry about your loss brother
all old music has worldwide the same roots. When I hear this song it reminds me on gregorian. How childisch to think one can posess old songs and outher could steel them. There even where times (Walter von der Vogelweide) when a singer was PROUD of other singers using "theyr" melodies :-)
I have come to the conclusion that mostly it is not stealing especially so far back. I woule call it borrowing. What is amazing how songs can change a little over time and sometimes becomes new songs! Robert Burns did that with his poems. Music is wonderful.
Indian music and Celtic music happen to be two of my favourite musical categories, and to hear them so seamlessly and beautifully interwoven as in this performance by the magnificent Sheila Chandra is pure eargasm! :)
I saw a documentary years ago which showed how Indian music and its structures made it to Ireland and influenced the music there. My memory on this is hazy, but the doc showed many parallels between the two musical cultures, which I found fascinating, as I love Indian music and Ireland is the land where I was born.
I love this song! I saw Shelia Chandra live at Womad in 1990, and she was stunning! She just sat on the stage dressed in white with her hair down. She accompanied herself with a drone, opened her mouth and this clear rich spine-tingling voice just poured out! She had everyone utterly electrified. If you like this song it os off her first solo album, Weaving My Ancestors' Voices - I have it, it's very very good!
@@malmalhi007 The Indo-Aryans were from central Asia. There are just similarities between Indian music and British and Irish traditional music, even English folk has a rich influence of celtic in it.
I saw a documentary years ago which showed how Indian music and its structures made it to Ireland and England, and influenced the music there. My memory on this is hazy, but the doc showed many parallels between the two musical cultures, which I found fascinating, as I love Indian music and Ireland is the land where I was born.
Absolutely spine-tingling. Who would've thought an ancient Scottish air would've been given such a delicate and reverential treatment by an Asian of immaculate taste? Utterly superb... eat yer heart out Cocteaus
Sheila examined the similarities of Scottish drones and Indian raga..... she is the only living person to so skillfully perform it.. this is truly a gift...
Heard this song on a late night off beat radio station many years ago...I was immediately hooked, but it took me a few years to find the song and eventually on YT.
I've learned to play this on my chanter & my penny whistle... Note for Sheila's lovely note. Such a beutiful lament. It raises goose flesh even when I play it. Thanks Ms. Chandra!
Cool interpretation of a hauntingly beautiful Scottish tune (We're all Gaels under that freckled skin!) I heard supposedly that the bagpipe originated in India in olden days of your and brought along with the Celts during their migrations west. I think the drone sound produced here is very very interesting.
Tomtom: Roots and Wings is my fave and then comes Quiet. I've been a fan of hers for a long time - I am gobsmacked to see a video for this?!?! So incredible thanks to Leo Bloom for uploading this. Wow.
And the second verse: The breeze on the braes is mournfully moanin' The brook in the hallow is plaintively mournin' Bit my blue een wi' sorrow are streamin' For him that will never return -- MacCrimmon
Indian meets Celtic spirituality? Fruiful marriage since they're both part of the Indo-European branch. Thanks for sharing this with us!!! Regards from Flanders
Tomrom, Sheila Chandra is English of Indian parentage. She started recording at 16 with the Indipop group Monsoon. Here albums are all great. This song comes from the album Roots and Wings.
Thanks so much for sharing this. I've never heard this before. Very interesting music with meaningful words. I enjoy listening to a wide variety of music & songs, however, this is special.
Beautiful. You can also hear the Celtic-Indian combination in the combolins built by Roy Williamson and played by The Corries. The one Roy played has sympathetic strings that resound like an Indian sitar. Check out The River and Gartan Mother's Lullaby. Fiona Hunter also does a lovely version of McCrimmon's Lament.
My jaw dropped and smacked into the keyboard. After reading WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND, this music is perfect: both show the ancestral ties between India and the UK.
And the Chorus: No more, no more, no more forever In war nor in peace shall return MacCrimmon Till daws the great day o doul an burnin' MacCrimmon is home no more returnin'
Thanks for the history of the song; however the lyrics you have listed are not the ones sung by Sheila Chandra. Hers are closer to the ones sung by Dick Gaughan: Here's the first verse. Doun Coullin's peaks the night is sailin' The banshee crouns her note o' wailin' Bit my blue een wi' sorrow are streamin' For him that will never return - MacCrimmon
I love Sheila Chandra! I also find her voice very soothing. However, as English is not my mother language, I often find it hard to catch the lyrics. And her lyrics are very difficult to find in the internet. I would be very very very grateful if someone posted the lyrics of "Love it is a killing thing" and the spoken words of "Mother and child".
I remember the first time I heard this I was stunned. This being a Scottish song about the family of Pipers from the Isle of Skye and my angel bride was Scottish Irish down the middle. She loved this song but I think this version she had to absorb a bit. She had never heard Sheila and I had records of Sheila. I learned bagpipes and Brenda bought me real ones that are a treasure to me. Brenda passed in Dec. of 2014. I listened to this song for first time since then and I think this is mind boggling how Sheila catches the essence of the haunting life and death of MacCrimmon. Ot was incredible to hear this tonight. It seems I am revisiting many music memories tonight. Music has been the healing force to my existence In the last year and half. I love Sheila, I love music. I love Brenda my angel bride and Brianna Lea Pruett whose music has saved my life the last year. Check out her Gypsy Bells album and especially her song of that title. I was devastated when Brianna passed in Sept of 2015. It was like I was starting over with my grieving again. Sorry for long note. This is normal the last year and half. Love you all who love music. Music is the freedom of the soul.
I lost my girlfriend in December 2014 as well. I have been going thru this healing of music also. Listening to all of her great music and songs we loved together. She was my heart and soul! She was a great woman! Soulmates for sure! Maaaan, I love her! Sorry about your loss brother
Notorious how the Irish try to steal Scottish songs and culture!
all old music has worldwide the same roots. When I hear this song it reminds me on gregorian.
How childisch to think one can posess old songs and outher could steel them.
There even where times (Walter von der Vogelweide) when a singer was PROUD of other singers using "theyr" melodies :-)
This a a Scottish song!
I have come to the conclusion that mostly it is not stealing especially so far back. I woule call it borrowing. What is amazing how songs can change a little over time and sometimes becomes new songs! Robert Burns did that with his poems. Music is wonderful.
Indian music and Celtic music happen to be two of my favourite musical categories, and to hear them so seamlessly and beautifully interwoven as in this performance by the magnificent Sheila Chandra is pure eargasm! :)
Kári Svansson those are my favorite too, so mesmerizing and enchanting. Mysterious.
I saw a documentary years ago which showed how Indian music and its structures made it to Ireland and influenced the music there. My memory on this is hazy, but the doc showed many parallels between the two musical cultures, which I found fascinating, as I love Indian music and Ireland is the land where I was born.
I love this song! I saw Shelia Chandra live at Womad in 1990, and she was stunning! She just sat on the stage dressed in white with her hair down. She accompanied herself with a drone, opened her mouth and this clear rich spine-tingling voice just poured out! She had everyone utterly electrified. If you like this song it os off her first solo album, Weaving My Ancestors' Voices - I have it, it's very very good!
A clever , small dance modern dance company did some stunning work to from album Crone Bone Drone , Sean McCurran I believe
OMG!!! I have just stumbled upon magic. Why on earth is such an amazing talent not better known?!!! Just so so beautiful - too beautiful for words.
How interesting--the similarities between Eastern and Scottish music--a tonal, underlying drone. Very spiritual sound.
thats because you guys came out of India. The Indo Aryan invasions have had a befitting end
@@malmalhi007 The Indo-Aryans were from central Asia. There are just similarities between Indian music and British and Irish traditional music, even English folk has a rich influence of celtic in it.
Yet another example of our human connection and oneness. Make love people, not war with each . . . for the sake of us all . . . please.
I saw a documentary years ago which showed how Indian music and its structures made it to Ireland and England, and influenced the music there. My memory on this is hazy, but the doc showed many parallels between the two musical cultures, which I found fascinating, as I love Indian music and Ireland is the land where I was born.
Thank you sheila forgiving me so many pleasurable moments bringing peace and joy... Over many years!
Love blessings and respect
❤️🙏☀️x A God send.
Absolutely spine-tingling. Who would've thought an ancient Scottish air would've been given such a delicate and reverential treatment by an Asian of immaculate taste? Utterly superb... eat yer heart out Cocteaus
i have a fascination with our indoeuropean roots,, this song represents how this two kind of singing styles are related...excelent fusion.
Sheila examined the similarities of Scottish drones and Indian raga..... she is the only living person to so skillfully perform it.. this is truly a gift...
This song gives me the chills and I've always loved it. The Celtic and Indian styles and sounds blend seamlessly in this, very well done.
Heard this song on a late night off beat radio station many years ago...I was immediately hooked, but it took me a few years to find the song and eventually on YT.
Of all the most recorded songs, this one is simply the best. A beautiful voice and a beautiful arrangement.
The amazing Sheila Chandra singing McCrimmon's lament...what else could you possibly wish for? Massive eargasm!
Eargasm !!!!!!
As a McCrimmon from the MacLeod clan I so much appreciate this. Would one day love to hit the Isle of Skye.
Luke Kane I'm a Clan McCleod Mccrimmon too.
I've learned to play this on my chanter & my penny whistle... Note for Sheila's lovely note. Such a beutiful lament. It raises goose flesh even when I play it. Thanks Ms. Chandra!
The voice of a Goddess
Sad to read that she can no longer sing due to a medical condition....we have lost a voice from the other worlds...
I Love Her. She is the Goddess, Blessing the Earth with her song and her sorrow for what is lost. She only wants LOVE.
I feel blessed in my lifetime to know this Muscian. From Monsoon to solo endevors. This is enchantment.
How many of you had the experience I did when I first heard this? Brings us back to a time we're all from .
Cool interpretation of a hauntingly beautiful Scottish tune (We're all Gaels under that freckled skin!) I heard supposedly that the bagpipe originated in India in olden days of your and brought along with the Celts during their migrations west. I think the drone sound produced here is very very interesting.
NO ONE can come close to Sheila Chandra.
Tomtom: Roots and Wings is my fave and then comes Quiet. I've been a fan of hers for a long time - I am gobsmacked to see a video for this?!?! So incredible thanks to Leo Bloom for uploading this. Wow.
It is amazing how many MacCrimmons are involved in music in some form or another. I guess it's a legacy left by the great piping name
The Macrimmons are extinct!
And the second verse:
The breeze on the braes is mournfully moanin'
The brook in the hallow is plaintively mournin'
Bit my blue een wi' sorrow are streamin'
For him that will never return -- MacCrimmon
Indian meets Celtic spirituality? Fruiful marriage since they're both part of the Indo-European branch. Thanks for sharing this with us!!!
Regards from Flanders
This is so breathtaking.
Sheila's version of this song really speaks to my spirit and makes it rise.
Extremly beautiful! It was a long time since I listend to Sheila Chandra - thx for sharing, PeaceMaker!
Right to my Soul, Beautiful!
As a "MacLeod", I am humbled and amazed!
Thank you so much
Sheila Chandra has every right to "Indianize" this lament. She is, after all, half Celt.
and because indian and European cultures are connected through the ancient indo-aryans
Yes, yes.
So beautiful I cried. wow.
It sounds so beautiful...most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
Tomrom, Sheila Chandra is English of Indian parentage. She started recording at 16 with the Indipop group Monsoon. Here albums are all great. This song comes from the album Roots and Wings.
Shiela's captured the feeling of the song. Surely sung as it was meant to be.
Thanks so much for sharing this. I've never heard this before. Very interesting music with meaningful words. I enjoy listening to a wide variety of music & songs, however, this is special.
What a beautiful, haunting song and the music video is so sad but ethereal.
This whole album is fabulous. It is a must own if you like yhis cut!
Soothing meditative lament for the soul. ♥ ♥ ♥
Beautiful. You can also hear the Celtic-Indian combination in the combolins built by Roy Williamson and played by The Corries. The one Roy played has sympathetic strings that resound like an Indian sitar. Check out The River and Gartan Mother's Lullaby. Fiona Hunter also does a lovely version of McCrimmon's Lament.
Arkybark The Corries amaze me! I found them 2 years ago!
+Arkybark There are many crossovers in modal music (traditional music) of Europe and Asia, and indeed elsewhere.
I shivered throughout the whole thing. Not a word of a lie.
This is so beautiful, I have no words.
The Gaelic legend is if you hear the song of the Banshee it foretells a death.
My jaw dropped and smacked into the keyboard. After reading WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND, this music is perfect: both show the ancestral ties between India and the UK.
quelle voix extraordinaire, douce et pleine ...
merci catabal pour ce cadeau :-)
Love Her work...alot is out of print and can't find anymore; I've tried.
Great meditation music!
try using a P2P music sharing program
Incredible...thank you! The MacCrimmon's were my Ancestors MacLeod Pipers ..
Somehow if you have a sister who lives in the Middle East, this can quite possibly capture all your fears about War into one wondrous video~
She is Weaving Her Ancestors Voices....
And the Chorus:
No more, no more, no more forever
In war nor in peace shall return MacCrimmon
Till daws the great day o doul an burnin'
MacCrimmon is home no more returnin'
Thanks for the history of the song; however the lyrics you have listed are not the ones sung by Sheila Chandra. Hers are closer to the ones sung by Dick Gaughan: Here's the first verse.
Doun Coullin's peaks the night is sailin'
The banshee crouns her note o' wailin'
Bit my blue een wi' sorrow are streamin'
For him that will never return - MacCrimmon
She is a Great singer!!!
what a fantastic voice
It just proves - we're a' Jock Tamson's bairns :-)
Absolutely beautiful! 5 stars
WOW! Stunning! Reminds me of 'I Know You're Out There'~ off to check her out on myspace? I had never heard of her before and what a mix of styles!
Pure beauty !
Amazing.
♥️🙏☀️X
BELLA ..........
Thank YOU! You are so nice.
Voila de la musique qui fait du bien.....a consommé sans modération.
Manu.
well, she "understands"... A rare combination of having a Gaelic soul in combination with an Indian soul. Wonderful!
I love Sheila Chandra! I also find her voice very soothing. However, as English is not my mother language, I often find it hard to catch the lyrics. And her lyrics are very difficult to find in the internet. I would be very very very grateful if someone posted the lyrics of "Love it is a killing thing" and the spoken words of "Mother and child".
Speechlessy Beautiful!
dude
this is beautiful
just found this! mccrimmon is my maiden name
I had this on tape for years! Now I finally know the tidal and artist
Really beautiful. Wow
🔥🔥🔥🔥
The Ancient Indians and Gaels of Ireland and Scotland developed/or used the same 5 note musical system.
it sounds so relaxing to me.
Wonderful woman with a eternity voice than a star of my heart, In peace Giancarlo dj set Italy
Sheila is a powerful singer
SUPERB.WHAT MORE TO SAY
Lovely as ever!
Beautiful music
absolutely wonderful :)
)O( Sheila Chandra Is Now A Celt!! welcome To The Tribe!
good sing and music...beautiful....relax Amoa..:-) I like
)O( I proclaim Sheila Chandra To be An Official Celt !!
wow amazing she have a beautyful voice
nice video and song too!
Indescritivelmente espiritual!!!!!!!!Namastê!!!
how beautiful! it was charming.... like an enchantment... my thanks to acerb how sent it to me!
This Scot does as well. I concur.....
Well that's cheered me up no end, just pop over to Elvis singing 'Old Shep' and it'll be time for bed
Dunvegan!!!
AMAZING! Gothy-BEAUTIFUL! LOVE it!!
Beautiful
Haunting music very relaxing.
Very cool tune & video!!
5*****
oh thankyou, grandly...
she beatuy voice
I tihnk this rockcs. And I love Sheila Chandra!!!
sensational
The MacCrimmons Lament was written after the head piper of the MacCrimmon Clan lost his seven sons to fever over 350 years ago
MARAVILLAS PARA EL ALMA!!!
Great 👍 🙏
Hi River ... I've added links to lyrics in the description above. Thanks for your comment.