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Since I'm recommending Scottish things anyway, I really love the album A Pocket of Wind Resistance, by Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy. It's gorgeous folk music combined with spoken word poetry (apparently from a play or something?) I love this:

The outstretched wing-tips of each migrating goose
create an up-wash, a pocket of wind resistance
for the bird tucked in behind and below.
These nooks of ease, these aero-dynamic sanctuaries
cut the drag by up to sixty-five percent.
It's a wonder, and it's also a gale-bitten struggle to sustain cooperation.
Every goose takes a turn: stepping up, falling back, labouring, and resting,
stepping up, falling back, labouring, and resting.
Like sky-borne socialists, no lone bird bears the brunt.
It's a gorgeous symbiotic dance: stepping up, falling back, labouring, and resting.

Also it's the first music I've heard that includes Latin names of mosses! Although they seem to have missed that Sphagnum magellanicum has been split into three species, of which only S. divinum and S. medium occur in Europe, whereas S. magellanicum is restricted to southern South America (as is only appropriate, considering the name). : )