4* Review from The Telegraph and inclusion in their Top Folk Albums of 2015 ! Recommendation from The Sunday Times in their Culture section. As played on BBC Radio 2, Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music, as well as many other wonderful independent radio shows. Beautiful artwork from Amy Pettingill creates a four page booklet for this jewel case presentation cd.
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Final track on our album.
Fay came forward for the Dave Swarbrick Passing the Baton project and while Dave loved her track, this was unable to be included on the EP. However, it is such an striking song from a distinctive voice that we felt compelled to include the track on our compilation and are delighted to have Fay closing our album.
Without a doubt the most original sounding of the collection is the last track, Blue Spiral Screams from Fay Brotherhood. It has that native American feel to it and wouldn't be out of place at the sixties and early seventies festivals such as Woodstock and Isle of White. It does have a hint of Joan Baez about it and her high singing sounds very ethnic. It conjures images of spaced out hippies. But let's face it there are far worse images to conjure up. folkall.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/femme-fatales-of-folk.html
The album closes with the strong, searching vocals of Fay Brotherhood as she pours ‘Blue Spiral Screams’ around your ears – another voice for whom an enviable reputation clearly awaits.http://www.folkwords.com/latestreviews_91416.html
Fay Brotherhood's track "Blue Spiral Screams" is my favourite on the album. It unashamedly rolls the the old world and myth together with it's lyrical descriptions of "blood, "war" and "chains". It is a slightly lyrically unhinged and liberating call to power and freedom, a Wiccan masterpiece that conveys a seeking of mystery and wonder without treading the cliches of music attached to dark folklore. The craft of the track is not dissimilar to a personal favourite, Tori Amos particularly the harpsichord sounds that reminded me of "Blood Roses". The voice is like a Valkyrie maiden, a rousing, intricate and interpretive free voice that reels you in. This is not to say the track and artist are not original, they are. If folk for you is the power of nature and history, this is the track for you. It's contrast to the lighter tracks on the album bring a mystical bookend to the collection but an incredibly welcome one. Peter Taranaski Shedanceswithwolves blog
lyrics
Blue Spiral Screams
The air is cool tonight
And we are born to fight,
And the sun will rise,
In blood - It's us or them,
Cherish each season our people remain free,
Curse the dark ones from the south let blood stain iron today,
As we are born to kill,
They'll never take our lands.
Senses swathed in blood,
The thrill - The hunters call,
The sound of iron on bone
Fine tuned to every fight,
Cherish each season our ever lasting fight,
Oh Morrigan can save us still we fight for freedoms light,
Fine tuned, we're set to kill,
They'll never see the dawn.
We'll never be enslaved,
Your chains are not for us,
Your taxes and your laws,
Will fail - We'll not be owned!
Silently we'll watch the God's and plan the time to strike!
And we'll feed the crows your bones, or with honour we'll die!
Blue spiral screams we charge!
What will the battle bring?
Airmid, Arawn, Cailleach, Macha,
Morrigan, Anu, Babd Catha x 2
And I release the Hare, I call Andraste's will,
The turning of the Hare will tell our fate or fall.
Come now brothers, kin and lovers!
Wrought upon the might,
Come now brothers, kin and lovers,
Victory or die.
Blue spiral screams we fall,
Our mother land will die.
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