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The Weeper (feat. Lisa Knapp)

from KELD by You Are Wolf

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The Caoineag was a banshee spirit attached to Scottish Highland clans; she could be heard wailing at the bottom of waterfalls before death or catastrophe.

Lisa sings an adapted version of the ‘The Border Widow’s Lament,’ its text from ‘A Choice Collection of Several Scots Miscellanie Poems and Songs.’ I use the tune from ‘The Highland Widow’s Lament’ – a song I know best from the opening of the 1973 film The Wicker Man. Both songs are about the Glencoe Massacre of 1692.

Includes a treated recording of a waterfall on Fair Isle made by Grace Parnaby, aged 7.

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from KELD, released March 23, 2018
Traditional, arr. by Kerry Andrew, with additional music and lyrics

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GUARDIAN FOLK ALBUM OF THE MONTH 2023

‘English avant-folk at its finest’ Observer

'Imagine Bjork working her magic on the English folk scene' UNCUT

YOU ARE WOLF is the alt-folk project of award-winning British composer, vocalist and author Kerry Andrew. They present folk songs and lore with unusual arrangements drawing on electronica, drone, contemporary classical and alt-rock.
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