Bothy Culture a result of his experiences of the early 1990s Glaswegian rave and house scenes and his experimentation with numerous types of world music. It was recorded solely by Bennett within his home studio. Bennett explained "Bothy Culture" celebrates not only his own country's Gaelic culture and music, but also the music of Islam, for which he held a long-lasting fascination due to its vocals, modes and instrumentation being "similar in emotion" to Gaelic music styles, and the music of Scandinavia, which he found to have the same heavy-beat rowdiness and "solitary sweetness" of the ceilidh music he played in his
Bothy is a traditional song recorded by the Bothy Band in 1976. "Bothy Culture" is the second studio album by Scottish Celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett. It was released in 1998. Marion Zimmer Bradley used bothies as a pattern for shelters at Hellers mountains in her Darkover novels. The narrator's bothy is the setting for much of the action in the 1996 suspense novel "To the Hilt" by Dick Francis. A bothy is featured in the 2013 film "Under the Skin". "The Key-Stone of the Bridge", a novel by Craig Meggy, is part homage to Robert Burns, set in Ben Alder