Limited Edition Heavyweight Vinyl. Recorded with the support of Creative Scotland, Hamilton Mausoleum Suite is an album of original chamber music (string quartet and harp) composed, arranged and produced by Scottish, BAFTA-nominated composer / songwriter and Teenage Fanclub drummer Francis Macdonald. The Hamilton Mausoleum Suite music was inspired by – and the album was recorded in – the historic Hamilton Mausoleum that stands on the edge of Strathclyde Park in Lanarkshire, a few miles from the city of Glasgow. The Mausoleum has one of the longest echoes of any man-made building in the world and was constructed in the 1850s for Alexander The 10th Duke of Hamilton. For a time, the duke’s remains were interred in an Egyptian sarcophagus on a plinth within the building. The mausoleum, 37 metres tall, now stands empty.
