Efter Da Humin

[lastpubrunner]

Hi All,

 

I own an LP of music from Shetland, entitled ' Efter Da Humin'

 

What is the meaning of this - presumably, 'After the ?'

 

The LP dates from 1966. For those who are unfamiliar with LPs, they are also known as 'Vinyl' and preceded CDs.

 

Ta very much for any info.

[Twerto]

my guess would be "after the stink" or "after the stinking"

[Fjool]

That's a very odd name for an LP though, Twerto. What's your logic?

 

I think it's a time of day. Twilight perhaps...

 

Edit: Yarr! Check this:

 

Some Gaelic words Humin for half light

 

http://www.rorymcleod.com/diaries/basque.htm

[Evil Inky]

That's a very odd name for an LP though, Twerto. What's your logic?

Perhaps it's a bunch of songs about baths and showers ?

[Medziotojas]

^ or something tae do wi da oothoose

 

^^Humin is half light, but I'm pretty sure it's Shetland and not Gaelic, as was stated on one of Rory Mcleod's links. If you click on his other one he refers to it as a Shetland word.

 

http://www.rorymcleod.com/diaries/shetlands.htm

[MuckleJoannie]

My Fokk bought yon LP when it cam oot and I mind listenin tae it when I wis a bairn. Da title cam fae hit bein gair dat du wid hear efter da humin when someen cam alang da hoose tae play in sing.

 

Hit's joost come in my mind dat I micht yet hae wir fokks copy ida laft. Are dey ony filesharin sites for aald Shaetlan MP3s?

[Guest Anonymous]

Humin, more commonly, and perhaps more correctly, spelled Hömin, is used in the dialect for 'twilight', 'dayset', or 'evening'

[lastpubrunner]

Many thanks for all the replies ! Most informative.

I should have mentioned that Humin is spelt with an umlaut (pair of dots) over the U. Those of you who stated that it refers to twilight will be correct (in my opinion), the front cover of the record shows a twilight scene.

 

Annoyingly, I only have Volume 2 of Eftir Da Humin. If anyone knows where I could purchase Volume 1, please contact me.

 

Here are some of the details on the record sleeve, which may be of interest to some.

 

Eftir Da Humin

Words & Music of Shetland

 

Contains music by a 'Traditional Band' - (Fiddles) Tom Anderson {Leader}, Laurence Fraser, Andrew Hughson, Frank Robertson; (Piano) Marjorie Smith.

 

Song by John Barclay, Guitar Accompaniment by William Johnson.

 

Song by Larry Peterson

 

Song by Tom Georgeson

 

Fiddle Solo Alastair Bain Piano Accompaniment by Marjorie Smith

 

Song Duet by Ann Gray and Pryde Johnson, Guitar Accompaniment by William Johnson.

 

I'd imagine that this is one of Aly Bain's earliest recordings; I'll see him in April next year when he plays at the pub that my parents used to own in Shropshire, I bet he'd be interested to see the LP.

 

I'm pleased that I've got a 'Peerie Willie' recording - he doesn't seem to have made very many.

 

I'm going to record the LP onto a CD; if anyone would like a copy, let me know. (It is more of an EP than an LP).

 

Ta very much for all your replies !

 

pubrunner2000

[deardron]

Jakobsen gives humin 'evening twilight (or the early part of it)', from Old Norse húm 'gloom; twilight'.

[filskadacat]

I didn’t know there was a volume 2! – and I can’t be the only person on here who has Volume 1. It’s a 33 rpm – but a little one - only 10â€. MuckleJoannie is right about the reason for the title – there’s an introduction by John J Graham which tells of how at night when the work was done and the fokk gaddered in aboot dan da fiddle would come doon fae da hook abune da brace – and a foy would be hed consisting of items such as those on the recording.

 

Volume 1 has Tom Anderson and Co playing four reels, Jessie Smith reciting Tirval and Me which I once had by heart, so often had I listened to it, Tom Georgeson singing Stoorbra Hill which I have sung all over the place including once on a stage in Moscow, Ann Gray singing Bressay Lullaby, a selection of Foula reels, Larry Peterson singing Farewell to Yell which I used to do at church concerts when I was a teenager (!) and some more fiddle music.

 

I would love to have this on a CD – I put it on cassette so I could listen to it in the car (our cars are old...) but cassettes degrade. Where are you, Lastpubrunner? I would never part permanently with my copy as it is so much a part of my childhood but if I could loan it to you safely you could make the CD and then we could all have one - and I should very much like to purchase a copy of Volume 2 when you do that, please.

[Heimdal]

I have vol 1, and have burned it on to a CD, scratches and all. I think it was the Shetland Folk Society who organised the recordings.

[lastpubrunner]

***Freebie Alert***

 

If anyone is interested in a copy of Eftir Da Humin Volume 2 on CD (details of contents in previous posting), provide me (Via PM) with a postal address and I'll send you one free !

 

IF anyone could provide me with a copy of Volume 1 on the same basis, I'd be very pleased to receive it.

 

Thank you FilskaDaCat, for the kind offer to loan me your LP, but I'd rather not take the risk, as I live in Shropshire and only visit my family in Shetland once or twice a year. IF I manage to get a copy of Volume 1 on CD, I shall contact you to see if you'd like a copy.

 

Ta for all your replies,

 

Lastpubrunner

[deardron]

Tom Georgeson singing Stoorbra Hill which I have sung all over the place including once on a stage in Moscow

Please more on this one, I never could imagine there could have been a hard core Shetlandic music show in Moscow

[filskadacat]

a hard core Shetlandic music show in Moscow

(cough) .. it was an end-of-course-for-foreign-students-of-Russian concert and we were asked to get up on a stage in front of all nationalities and do 'something representative of our home nation'. I can sing reasonably and someone had a guitar they could lend me …

 

I think it was in the ballroom of that hotel just over the bridge if you went up past the ’wedding cake’ building that used to be the ‘Foreign Office’ ??? ….I haven’t been in Moscow since, and that was 1978! Was at a reception at the Russian consulate in Edinburgh on Monday – blinis and caviar were good! – and understood all of the consul’s speech - to my relief! - but rather dried up at the third sentence in attempting to reply to him. One of the girls who works in our Bursary is Ukrainian and is very cross about this – she says I have to sit down and talk Russian to her to get ‘unrusted’. But I don’t have time!

 

Sorry - that has rather wandered away from Eftir da Humin. I have pm'd Lastpubrunner to ask for a CD!

[Skyumpi]

Well, well. Wha wid o tocht dat "Stoorbra Hill" wis a Googlewhack - my first ever, I tink.

 

I wis waantin ta fin oot mair aboot a sang at I minded fae da skule an da saerch eenjin took me right back ta Shetlink!

Wha wis it dat cam wi dis sang first an dis onybody keen whaur I wid fin da wirds tae it?