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Song for Mrs Hiddleston

from Fishe or Fowle by Kate Fletcher & Corwen Broch

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    Fishe or Fowle is Kate and Corwen's new double CD.

    Stylistically straddling Traditional Folk, Dark Folk and Psych Folk, Fishe or Fowle features a stripped down instrumentation of ancient and historical instruments including lyre, bowed lyre, gusli, kantele, pedal harmonium and sundry pipes, horns and percussion.

    Disc One has 15 tracks on the theme of shape-shifting and transformation. Four of the songs are newly composed (including our hit: Song for Suibhne aka "The Horns Song") and eleven are interpretations of traditional material including several songs never before recorded.

    Disc Two is the first recording for 30 years of The Play o' de Lathie Odivere, an ancient and hauntingly beautiful Orcadian ballad, sung in five parts.

    This is the dramatic story of a woman torn between two lovers, one of whom is a shapeshifting Selkie (seal-man). This ballad seems to be the origin of the well known song the Great Silkie of Sule Skerry, which closely resembles one of its sections.

    Fishe or Fowle is beautifully packaged in a double fold cardboard pack, with 8 page booklet, all illustrated with Corwen's photography.

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Mrs Hiddleston of Orphir, Orkney, was the main source for the Play O' De Lathie Odivere (CD2). This song is dedicated to all those, who like her, have left us some of the songs and stories of from the past, for us to sing and pass on and embellish with our own inspiration.

This track has an intentional minute of silence at the end to make the following track a hidden track.

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Song for Mrs Hiddleston

Who knows what came before.
Or how you came by such a token
How he knows your name
Or which of you the other's heart had broken?

Who knows what oaths you swore
Or why you kept your troth no longer
Why you would have none,
Til in the end 'twas Odin's oath proved stronger?

And are the stories on the sea
Or floating on the wind to me?
Catch them if you can
Catch them if you can

Who knows where you have gone
For no-one tells where you were taken
How he set you free
Or if you grieve the life you have forsaken?

And many singers left your story
Floating on the waters
Many singers left your story rising on the wind
Catch the stories on the wind
From the foam upon the waters
Catch the stories on the wind
From the foam upon the waters
Catch them if you can
Catch them if you can

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from Fishe or Fowle, released January 5, 2017
words & music: K.Fletcher arr K Fletcher & C Broch

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Kate Fletcher & Corwen Broch Scotland, UK

Kate was raised on porridge and song in a family of eccentric musicians in Reading. Wrote my first song at 19. Bought a Narrowboat to live on. Everyone said it was a phase. I still have the boat.

Corwen grew up in Dorset with his grandparents who were The Last Of The Victorians. He was instilled with a love of spartan living, open fires and outside toilets.

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