Woven - out now!

So happy to be able to finally announce that my debut album, Woven, is out now. Available from my web shop, bandcamp, iTunes and Edinburgh's Coda Music. You can listen to it in full on soundcloud, too.

Special thanks to everyone involved in making it:

The band - Fiona MacAskill, Mairearad Green, Ali Hutton, James Lindsay, Phil Hague. Engineers Iain Hutchison and Angus Lyon. Georgie Meadows for the album cover image, photography by Gemma Dagger, design by Fourtwentyseven. Celtic Connections for the original commission and Help Musicians UK for supporting the recording project.

A big thank you also to everyone who's listened and pre-ordered so far! 

 

Folk Radio UK and fRoots

I'm thrilled that Woven is a featured album of the month at Folk Radio UK:

'What impresses most about ‘Woven’ is Sarah’s skill as an arranger; an interpreter of song, story and music. In taking these snatches and fragments of traditional song, adding her own intricate and fascinating musical themes and merging them into a narrative on the fleeting but complex nature of human existence, she has created an utterly compelling tapestry.'

Read the rest of Neil McFadyen's review here.

fRoots Magazine have also had lovely things to say. In the December issue, I talk to Tim Chipping about multi-tasking and how Woven came to be, and the album is reviewed by Paul Matheson.


fRoots is available in newsagents or direct from their website.



Woven track by track (continued)

Sair Fyel'd Hinny

Here's another track from Woven. This is a very old Northumbrian song that I'd been aware of for many years but never tried singing until this project came along! An old man talks to an oak tree, lamenting his lost youth. As the tree ages, it gets bigger and stronger, where the man is becoming more feeble.

Thanks also to Roddy Hart for giving the song a spin on his BBC Radio Scotland show last night.