Composed of eleven stunning and emotive tracks, From Scotland With Love was
written by King Creosote and produced by music supervisor and guitarist David
McAulay, with additional production by Paul Savage, in Chem19 Studios in
Glasgow. The record features King Creosote accompanied by his band – Derek
O’Neill (keyboards), Andy Robinson (drums), Pete Mcleod (bass), and Kevin
Brolly (clarinet) – as well as an additional string section (arranged by
cellist Pete Harvey), and a choir of backing vocalists.
From Scotland With Love was created in collaboration with director Virginia
Heath and Producer Grant Keir as an audio-accompaniment to a poetic documentary
film of the same name, to be released for the Commonwealth Games. Featuring
archive footage but no narration or interview, the film works around themes of
love and loss, war, resistance, emigration, work and play, and is driven as much
by the music as it is the images. For the first time King Creosote found himself
being able to write from other people’s perspectives, such as the female
characters found in the archive (the ‘fisher lassies’ inspired the moving
track Cargill, for example). The result is From Scotland With Love, one of King
Creosote’s most widescreen cinematic and finest pieces of work to date.