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Aidan O'Rourke (born 1975) is a Scottish contemporary folk music fiddle player and composer from the Isle of Seil on the West Coast of Scotland. He was named the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Musician of the Year and the Scots Trad Music Awards 2011 Composer of the Year. In addition to his solo career, O'Rourke also plays in the award-winning folk trio Lau alongside Kris Drever and Martin Green. He...read more

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Mangersta Beach

I Met Him Only Once

Nobody Could Be One Hundred Percent Sure About the Last Tiger

Tobar Nan Ealain

I Had Been Walking a Long Time

The Santa Cruz Redwoods

Falun Fine (Outbound)

People's Park (Part 2)

Falun Fine (Return)

For About a Month

Jack Is Leaning Out of His Window One Night, Admiring the Full Moon

Do People Still Do This?

The Film Was Preceded by a Warning That It Contained Some Moderate Violence

Now, You Know About Clootie Wells, Do You?

A Fox and a Hound Met Early One Morning on a Hillside

Awake Isn't Good

Her Feet Padding Back

That Braggart Has It Coming to Him

He Looked at His Right Hand

Some Stories Are so Good That They Deserve Repeating in Every Generation

We Drove Down the Road, Saddened By My Father's Decline

Falun Fine - Outbound

It Was an Afternoon of Possible Magic

It Was the Day of the Great Unveiling

It Was the Savage Boys Watching from the Cliffs

Every Morning She Steps Out the Back Door

She Picked Up the Letter Again

I Was an Experiment

They'd Start Their Calling Around Midnight

Bill Was Already at His Window

The Opening Shot Is of a Flat, Cold, Grey Expanse of Water with the Dawn Coming Up

They Were Passing the End of a Particular Street

The Girl Climbed the Stairs to Bed

Lying Awake in the Middle of the Night

You Forget More Than You Retain, and That's the Truth

I Used Not to Be Able to Read on Buses

There's A Rumour Going Round, We Don't Know What It Is, But We All Get In Line

Sometimes he felt he could live permanently in a hotel

I Don't Know Beforehand How I Will Appear to Anyone

I Was Riding on a Greyhound Bus, Seeking Some Place to Hide

'That Place,' Mick Said. 'Christ, What a Hole.'

The Room Is in Darkness

Feel the Pulse of This Place

There Was Once a Man so Old That Most of His Family, and All of His Friends, Had Left the World Long Before Him

The Herring Girls and the Barra Boys

The Phone Rang Just as She'd Got the Children to the Table

The Bell that Never Rang

Douglas and Aileen Stood in Front of the Blue Plaque

Original Soundtrack of Iorram (Boat Song)

Infuse My Eyes with Molten Grey Skies

"Jack", His Mother Says One Day, "That Auld Dug Has Had It"

At the Interval, as the Applause Dies Away and People Begin to Make for the Exits

Off the Motorway and Onto the Short Cut, Over the Hill

My Father and I Are Reading the Papers

When I Was Still Some Distance from the Village

One Day She Decided to Open Her Own Library

"Now", the Old Woman Said, "Before You Go Up There I Want to Introduce You to Someone"

On This Day, the First Recorded Total Eclipse of Scotland Took Place

Òran nan Sgalpach

'Right, William, Trolley Duty,' Kev Said

The Sandbank and the Whale

Fuadaichean nan Gàidheal / O Hó Hoireann ó, Tha Mi ann am Èiginn

Fhir a' Bhàta (Instrumental 1) / Nuair Thàinig Àm an Iasgaich

People's Park, Pt. 1

Every Morning She Steps Out the Front Door

He Needed Half a Day of Reasonable Weather

The Kaylana - Introduction

Falun Fine - Return

The Kaylana - Introduction 2

The Room Is Darkness

The Kaylana (Introduction)

The Burn of the Shelter

Getting Out of Bed he Tripped on a Stray Shoe and Twisted His Ankle

That Place,' Mick Said. 'Christ, What a Hole.'

People's Park, Pt. 2

Simon Stoblichties Was Not Like Other Men

The Clock's Broken

Right, William, Trolley Duty,' Kev Said

I Come in Peace

This morning you take a stroll out to the Pictish stone

Iorram - Reprise 2

We Walk Our Dog on the Disused Railway Line Now

One Night in the Library

The Ardlair Tuning Fork

One Morning in the Library I Opened a Book and a Bird, Bright Green, Flew in Through the Window

The Kaylana (Introduction 2)

They were sitting against the back wall of the pub

Bah Humburg - Dare To Diddle Mix

For Michael Marra

Hey Ho, the Lily Is Gay

George McHardy / Miller o' Drone / The Rejected Lover / Hazy Hill

She Wondered If Her Heart Would Burst

Vancouver?' the Guy Said. 'That's Where We're Going. Hop In.'

Miss Menie Trotter

The Glack of Newtyle

Nobody Could Be a Hundred Per Cent Sure About the Last Tiger

We would never have gone out if we had not intended to return

Jack Had Never Quite Been Able to Grasp the Concept of the Soul

Lord Humbelby, May I Conclude This Session

You Know Those Women, the Ones at Music Festivals Who Get Themselves Hoisted on Their Boyfriends' Shoulders?

We Were Undertaking a Major Study of the Upper Diyala That Year

I Was Not Short of Sources of Entertainment During My Recuperation After the Surgery

Andy Murray Was Through to the Third Round

I Have a Problem. I Keep Forgetting Things. Do You Think I Have a Problem?

Iorram (Reprise 2)

A Boy Went to the Village Shop but There Was Nothing He Wanted There

First to Go Was the Television

I Had a Dream in Which I Had Forgotten Almost Everything

It's Not Like That,' He Said, Refilling His Glass

She Put on the Headphones, Selected Shuffle

Where Did He Come from, That Man with the Shining Smile?

Those Hills Are Not so Benign.

Jack Was Setting out to Seek His Fortune

Joe Was Doing His Usual Thing

The Leader Spoke

Frank and I Were Aiming for Death Valley

There She Stood in Her Finery, Taking the Air, Tall, Handsome, Proud

When I Was a Boy We Knew of the White Man but We Seldom Saw Him

For About a Month (feat. Kit Downes)

The Old Man in the Forest Heard the Door Close

Before the Beginning There Was Nothing

He Was Lying on the Floor, Reading

When I Was Appointed to My Present Position Three Years Ago, I Felt Both Privileged and Humbled

It Wouldn't Have Been Acceptable for Me, a Man, to Do What Was Done

Ah, Well, She Is Dead at Last, the Old Witch

‘That Place,’ mick Said. ‘Christ, What a Hole.’

The Technology Really Is Amazing

Is That What Brought You All the Way Up Here

My Father Was a Rich and Powerful Man

It’s Snowing Again, Hard

In This Film from 1950

Death Was Enjoying a Cup of Tea and a Bacon Roll

My Wife Answered the Phone One Morning

Doorways Are a Problem

When My Father Falls He Goes Down Like a Tree

It Was Beautiful Down There

The Artist Rennie Mackay

Now, You Know About Clootie Wells, Do You? (feat. Kit Downes)

Jack was walking by the lochside

On the Side of the Piazza Opposite the Cathedral

Some Moments Never Go from You

An Old Sea Captain Washed up, Looking for a Berth

They Had Walked for Many Hours

Lord Cummerbund, as You Know

The Woman Sitting Opposite Me

The Shop Door Was Flung Open and a Young Fellow Burst into Our Midst

Bah Hamburg: Dare To Diddle Mix (Vertical Variations)

One Filthy Day of Driving Wind and Freezing Rain

One Day, Remembering with Fondness a Holiday Spent in the Highlands

The Implications of This Are Quite Appalling

It Was the Most Difficult Question He'd Ever Have to Ask Anyone

When I Was Five or Six

There Lived a Wife at Usher's Well

I Was Sweeping Around the Wheels of a Parked Car

Was There Ever an Invention as Benign and Brave as the Bicycle?

She Was Still in Shock When They Collected Their Coats and Said Goodbye

Everything Was Too Much, Yet It Was Not Enough

Rachel and I Were Having an Affair

He Took Another Beer from the Fridge

It Is Never Wise to Question the Comings and Goings of a Cat

The One I'll Remember

One Day, When Jack's Mother Was Round at a Neighbour's

Heroic', That Was a Favourite Word of His.

Something Was Eating the Poison in the Woodshed, Lots of It

Halfway, He Reckons

Outside the Restaurant I Paused

Amid the Fumy, Head-Pounding Traffic, on the Other Side of the Glass, Upside Down Almost, a Tangle-Haired, Grinning Face

Leon!' he Called, Not Loudly

Once, when I was about thirteen

A Man Came to the Sales Counter

Dinner was over

Having Wrapped Up All His Meetings by Midday

When You Switched the Radio on It Had to Warm Up

Lift Your Eyes to the Hills and There Is the Statue.

You Used to Wake in the Middle of the Night, Standing in the Middle of Darkness

They Were Sitting in Big Armchairs in a Circle in the Middle of a Dusty School Gym

Apart from the Fat Man Who Was Not Mr Brogan, There Were Five Other Customers

It Had to Happen

A Bell Above the Door Jingled as I Entered

It's Snowing Again, Hard

The Thing Is, You're Not Eligible for Jobseeker's Allowance

You Sometimes Hear It Said About a Baby, New-Born or Perhaps a Few Weeks Old

People's Park (Pt. 2)

Dr Joseph Black

She Thought, I Am in My Ninth Decade

Awake Isn't Good (feat. Kit Downes)

The Bus Is Just over the Bridge

Wullie Wheenge – May I Call You Wullie

Every morning she steps out of the back door

I remember Daft Davie standing at the top of the hill

‘Right, William, Trolley Duty,’ kev Said

The Queue Shuffled Forward a Few Feet, Stopped, Then Moved Again

The Garage Door Ajar, the Van Backed Up to It

We Were Happy, Content, Relaxed

They Had Been Walking in Silence but Neither of Them Knew for How Long

'How Long Have You Known Me, Brent?'

It's Me Again,' the Man with the Parcel Said.

The Professor Stood Clapping Like Some Circus Animal

At First You Think Everybody Is at It

There Was a Man Who at Different Times Worked as a Gardener, a Carpenter and a Forester

Yesterday, as I Was Preparing to Go out for the Evening, I Stood in Front of the Mirror and Did Not Recognise Myself

Death Went to the Doctor, Complaining of Constant Lethargy, Stress and an Overwhelming Sense of Doom

If There Was No Death, Would There Be War

I Was in My Office at the Back of the House

She Lived at the Top of the House, in an Attic Room with a Window That Looked out over the Garden

Those Stories of Men Who Somehow Escape the Carnage but Are Still Lost, Haunted to Their Own Deaths

One Night We Happened to Discourse on Madmen and the Causes of Madness

The Earth Blinked. A Red, Wicked Hint of Life

The Rain Was on Again

She Had Left the Island Long Ago

He Was a Man of Subtle Thought and Bold Accomplishment

There Are Only Three Ingredients in a Dish of Porridge

'The Bloke in the Leather Jacket,'

The Devil Wanted to Lead Jack Astray

This Thing Was Unfolding as We Watched

Biology Had Not Been One of His Strong Subjects

Peoples Park (Part 2)

After Hector Boece

The Hills Above Glen Loth

'Jack,' his mother says one day, 'that auld dug has had it'

There Was This Cave Near Jack's Village

You Pull In To A Passing Place To Let The Van By

See That Simon Stoblichties,' the Villagers Said, 'He's Aff His Heid, a Total Bampot.'

From an Early Age

Jack Was Passing an Inn and Fancied a Pint of Beer

The Tiny Bus Shelter Had a Pungent, Animal Smell

Death Thought, I Can't Do It

They Were Revisiting That Old Topic Again

Do These Words Mean Anything?

X Marks the Spot

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