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We Have Won The Land

by Rory Matheson & Graham Rorie

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Rory was born and brought up in Drumbeg, a small village in Assynt. His family fully supported the crofters' campaign, making the story particularly meaningful for him. Graham's roots are in South Ronaldsay, Orkney. The determination and passion shown by the crofters in their bid to buy back the land from foreign landowners inspired them to write this album of music which celebrates the crofters' exceptional achievement.

The parish of Assynt sits on the West coast of Sutherland in the North West Highlands, Scotland. In 1989 the Vestey family renamed a 21,300 acre section of the parish as ‘North Lochinver Estate’ and sold it for just over £1million to a Swedish land speculator, who in 1992 went into liquidation. The estate was then to be broken into several lots and sold separately to clear outstanding debts. Not one of these transactions considered the interests of the people who lived and worked on the land. After hearing that the estate was once again up for sale, several public meetings took place and it was subsequently decided that the crofters themselves would try to raise enough money to bid for the land - a proposal some judged to be impossible. A steering committee, formed of representatives from each of the 13 townships that made up the estate, was set up to guide the project initially. The Assynt Crofters’ Trust was formed in the summer of 1992 to begin formal negotiations. After two unsuccessful bids that year, in February 1993 the crofters’ third bid was successful, and they bought the land for £300,000. This was a euphoric victory for the crofters of Assynt, who now own the land they live and work on. Their success is also recognised for being deeply influential on land reform in Scotland.

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released April 22, 2022

ALL TRACKS WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY RORY MATHESON & GRAHAM RORIE
RECORDED & MIXED BY GUS STIRRAT AT SOLAS SOUNDS
PRODUCED BY RORY MATHESON & GRAHAM RORIE
MASTERED BY NICK COOKE
CD LAYOUT BY LOUISE BICHAN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY LEWIS MATHESON (TAIGH SOLAIS PHOTOGRAPHY)
MANUFACTURED BY BIRNAM RECORDS

RORY MATHESON - PIANO, KEYBOARDS
GRAHAM RORIE - FIDDLE, MANDOLIN, TENOR GUITAR
KRISTAN HARVEY - FIDDLE
TIERNAN COURELL - FLUTES, WHISTLES
CRAIG BAXTER - BODHRAN
ANNA MASSIE - GUITAR
CHARLIE STEWART - BASS
FRASER STONE - DRUMS, PERCUSSION
JAMES GRAHAM - VOCALS

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Rory Matheson & Graham Rorie Glasgow, UK

‘We Have Won The Land’ is the new collaborative project between Glasgow based folk musicians Rory Matheson and Graham Rorie. This suite of new music has been inspired by Rory’s local area of Assynt in the North-West Highlands of Scotland and the crofter's buy-out of the North Lochinver Estate by the Assynt Crofter’s Trust in 1993. ... more

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