Winter Aconite - Deep Folk Mixtape 7

I stumbled across a recording of a weather report from the Burns’ Day storm of 1990 during which more than ninety people lost their lives. It inspired me to make this latest Deep Folk Mixtape. I chose songs and field recordings that all deal with winter and the Christmas season - a period of reflection and loss but also coming together and regeneration. 

[Found sound: Weather report, London Volmet South, The Burns Day Storm 1990]
[Overdub: Synth]
The Roches - Star of Wonder
Smoke Fairies - Snowglobe Blizzard
[Field recording: Winter wren, Nova Scotia]
Yazoo - Winter Kills
[Field recording: Winter dogs and birds]
[Found sound: Weather report, RAF Volmet]
Calexico - Green Grows the Holly
Bill Callahan - Winter Road
[Field recording: Old car starting in winter]
Lisa Hannigan - Snow
[Field recording: Christmas bells]
Nico - Winter Song
Sean Smith - I Can’t Wait for Winter
[Field recording: Dog barking]
Midlake - Winter Dies
[Field recording: Church bells, Princes Street, Edinburgh]
The Durutti Column - Sketch for Winter
[Field recording: Alexanderplatz, Christmas song and Hare Krishna]

Mixed by Ben Watt with additional space echo, found sounds and field recordings. Recorded Dec 23 2016.

This is a non-commercial, non-profit mix. If you like any of the artists featured, please seek them out and buy their music.

(Field recordings and found sounds courtesy of simon-spiers, zbyhek, kwahmah_02, unfa, zoefitzgerald, laurent, wildear1 for wildearthvoices.org, jamesrodavidson, lg at Freesound.org)

Ben Watt / Winter Aconite - Deep Folk Mixtape 7

Musician, singer, writer, DJ. Solo artist. Half of Everything But The Girl. Founder of Buzzin’ Fly.