Billed as "Traditional music and songs from the farthest reaches of the British Isles " it was recorded in Summertown and Headington, Oxford 1999-2003. Producer Martin Souter.

Released by The Gift of Music in 2005.

Ian Giles
CD 1 - voice 1, 2, 7, 10, 12; bodhràn 11, 15
CD 2 - voice 16

Jon Boden
CD 1 - pipes 1; fiddle 2, 9, 10, 11, 15; guitar 12, 13, 14; voice 13, 14
CD 2 - pipes 1; fiddle 7, 9; guitar 16; voice 9

Marguerite Hutchinson
CD 1 - whistle 1, 14 ; voice 2, 12, 13
CD 2 - voice 1, 7, 9, 13; flute 16

Joey Oliver
CD 1 - whistle 9, 10, 11, 15

John Spiers
CD 1 - melodeon 2, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15
CD 2 - melodeon 7, 16

Tim Van Eyken
CD 1 - 3

Robert Harbron
CD 1 - 3

Benji Kirkpatrick
CD 1 - 3
CD 2 - bouzouki 20

Jon Banks: CD 2 - harp 21
Paul Sartin: CD 2 - oboe 20;
Sarah Hill: CD 2 - clarsach 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17
Niall Mushet: CD 2 - pipes 4;
Jon Banks: CD 2 - dulcimer 19;
Sharon Lindo: CD 2 - 11

The Amber Quartet
CD 1 - 5
CD 2 - 2, 18
- Ian Giles, voice & drum
- Paul Sartin, fiddle & oboe
- John Spiers, melodeon
- Benji Kirkpatrick, bouzouki

Dr Faustus
CD 1 - 4, 6, 8
- Tim van Eyken, melodeon & voice
- Robert Harbron, concertina
- Paul Sartin, fiddle
- Benji Kirkpatrick, bouzouki & voice

CD1
1. She Moved Through the Fair
2. McCrimond’s Lament
3. The Rakes of Kildare
4. Si Beag Si Mor
5. The Banks of the Bann
6. Kesh Jig/Foxhunter’s Jig/St Anne’s Reel
7. The Minstrel Boy
8. Out on the Ocean
9. Jackie Coleman/Rakish Paddy/Farewell to Erin
10. I’ll Tell Me Ma
11. Tripping Upstairs/The Old Favourite/Going to the Well for Water
12. The Water is Wide
13. Jock o’Hazeldean
14. As I Roved Out
15. The Chúil Aodha Jig/The Black Rogue/Out on the Ocean

CD2
1. The Green Fields of Americay
2. Suo-Gan (Sleep my baby) instrumental
3. An Long Reubaidh/The Reiving Ship
4. By my ain fireside (cradle song)/Cailinn mo ruinsa (the maid I adore)/Fairy lullaby
5. Cumha Peather Ruaidhri/Rory Dall’s Sister’s Lament
6. An Gille Bann- The Fair Haired Lad
7. I Know My Love
8. Mairi Bhan Og/Mary, Young and Fair
9. The Month of January
10. Fear a’Bhata/The Boatman
11. Miss Macleod’s Reel
12. Mo Nighean Chruinn Donn/My Neat Auburn Maid
13. The Land O’er the Leal
14. Eriskay Love-Lilt
15. An Clarsair/The Harper
16. The Galway Shawl
17. Hio, hua Raonuill ud thall- The Lure of the Sea Maiden
18. Llwyn-onn (The Ash Grove) instrumental
19. Grufydd ap Cynan
20. Yr Hen Eog Lewys/Cainc Y Famiaith/Sir Fon Fach
21. Fadwg fach