You Could Go: Capercaillie and "Thiocfadh Leat Fanacht"

Capercaille brings us today's random tune. Capercaille is a Scottish folk band formed in the 1980s and named after the Scottish wood grouse. They perform traditional Gaelic songs along with songs in English of their own composition or by others, and often mix traditional songs with modern recording techniques, rhythms and instrumentation. At first sticking fairly closely to traditional styles and instrumentation, in the 1980s Capercaille added funk bass lines, synthesizers and electric guitar to traditional songs. In 1992, their EP A Prince Among Islands was the first Gaelic language record to reach the top 40 of the UK singles charts They have since been moving back toward more traditional music while retaining a slight fusion sound. This song, Thiocfadh Leat Fanacht, is from their 1997 album Beautiful Wasteland. There were a bunch of people in an online forum in 2008-09 trying to find a translation to this song, which seems to be sung in Irish Gaelic and asks young people to travel the world but to never forget (or an exhorts them to always come back to) home.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capercaillie_(band)