LIVE from Darkly Artful

A four-track remix EP which re-imagines tracks from You Are Wolf's debut album 'Hawk to the Hunting Gone' (Stone Tape, May 2014).

Buy the album here! https://youarewolf.bandcamp.com/

'English avant-folk at its finest' The Observer

'Imagine Bjork working her magic on the English folk tradition' Uncut

Traditional folk songs and folklore-inspired originals re-worked by four diverse artists:
- https://soundcloud.com/seratoner
- https://soundcloud.com/bensee
- https://soundcloud.com/roshi-2
- https://soundcloud.com/widedubz

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Hunting to the Hawk Gone (Hawk to the Hunting Gone remixes)

From the four-track remix EP which comes in addition to You Are Wolf's debut album, 'Hawk to the Hunting Gone' (Stone Tape, 2014).

Buy the album here! www.youarewolf.bandcamp.com

A remix of You Are Wolf's 'Three Ravens', which combines two traditional folk songs, 'The Three Ravens' and 'The Twa Corbies'.

Remixed by Paul J Abbott: 
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/seratoner
Twitter:  @seratoner

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1. Three Ravens (Paul J Abbott Remix)

From the four-track remix EP which comes in addition to You Are Wolf's debut album, 'Hawk to the Hunting Gone' (Stone Tape, 2014).

Buy the album here! www.youarewolf.bandcamp.com

A remix of You Are Wolf's track 'Oh Ruin', which is inspired by barn owls! It was believed that barn owls were portents of doom... their numbers have dramatically declined in the UK. Check out the video to the album track version here: http://youtu.be/7oXor4OISsE

Remixed by Ben See:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bensee

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2. Oh Ruin (Ben See Acappella Remix)

From the four-track remix EP which comes in addition to You Are Wolf's debut album, 'Hawk to the Hunting Gone' (Stone Tape, 2014).

Buy the album here! www.youarewolf.bandcamp.com

'Cuckoo' mashes up two traditional folk songs - 'The Cuckoo/The Coo Coo Bird' and 'My Bonny Cuckoo'.

Remixed by Roshi Feat. Pars Radio:
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/roshi-2

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3. Cuckoo (Roshi Feat. Pars Radio First Cuckoo Of Spring Remix)

A setting of the traditional Yorkshire song, 'A Lyke Wake Dirge', sung to accompany the carrying of a body over a coffin path to its resting place.

Written for and sung by Juice Vocal Ensemble (Anna Snow, Sarah Dacey and Kerry Andrew).

This song was arranged to accompany a short story I wrote, 'The Coffin Path', which you can listen to exclusively as a B-side to my You Are Wolf song, Blue Men: https://youarewolf.bandcamp.com

A Lyke Wake Dirge (SSA)

Remix by Bustawidemove of 'Oh Ruin' from the original debut album 'Hawk to the Hunting Gone' by You Are Wolf. Remix is part of 4-track streamable remix EP 'Hunting to the Hawk Gone'.

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Oh Ruin (Bustawidemove Radikal Rerub)

A walk around the People's Park in the centre of Zhengzhou, which was full of activity on a Saturday afternoon.

Ping pong, traditional performers, karaoke, rollercoasters and lots of people dancing to some Chinese ska.

Kerry is a Musician in Residence in China with the British Council/PRS for Music Foundation. She is visiting the Henan region, mostly based in Zhengzhou, from February 25th-March 31st. She is making work based on the trickster fox in European and Chinese folklore.

Find out more at fox-pop.com

People's Park, Zhengzhou

A song created with Zhengzhou band Carp Slides as part of my British Council/PRSF Musician in Residence China stay in Henan Province. 

This song directly takes a story collected from Mr Song of Guoliang Village, Henan, who told me about a fox-fairy who used to live in the mountains there! You can see him tell his story here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfpYpiQ6jos.

The song was written by myself and made in collaboration with five-piece band, Carp Slides. It uses field-recorded wind chimes played by 6 year old friend Little Kerry in Guoliang, plus awesome birdsong sounds from ZaMI of Carp Slides.

Peformed live at 7 Livehouse, Zhengzhou, Henan.

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Red Fox

A song created as part of my British Council/PRSF Musician in Residence China stay in Henan Province.

This piece is based on a famous Yu Opera tune, as learnt by Mr Lian of the Henan Sound Museum. It also uses two types of cymbals that I bought in Luoyang.

It accompanies a slow-mo film of a calligraphy student from Henan University, Kaifeng, painting the word 'fox' for me in Chinese characters.

Peformed live at 7 Livehouse, Zhengzhou, Henan.

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Huli Calligraphy Yu Opera Improv

A song created with Zhengzhou band Carp Slides as part of my British Council/PRSF Musician in Residence China stay in Henan Province.

This song is inspired by various traditional tales about fox-spirits, as gleaned from Pu Songling's Tales of a Chinese Studio. Fox-spirits are ambiguous creatures, seen as evil by some and not by others, but tend to possess a human until they become sick and die if the fox-spirit is not defeated in some way. This song has a flipside, though, in which the fox is not predator but hunted - the idea of being outrun is as much from a human's point of view (in terms of the English fox-hunting tradition) as it is the other way round.

Peformed live at 7 Livehouse, Zhengzhou, Henan.

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Outrun (hulijing)

New tunes from our growing freshwater songs set, live from Darkly Artful!

As Sylvie Was Walking, a traditional tune from the Penguin Book of English Folksongs.

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Kerry Andrew on vocals
Sam Hall on 'cello & FX
Pete Ashwell on percussion

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Pleasant and Delightful, a Norfolk version of the traditional song as learnt from Sam Lee.

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Kerry Andrew on vocals, loops and ukelele
Sam Hall on 'cello
Pete Ashwell on percussion

Pleasant And Delightful LIVE from Darkly Artful

New tunes from our growing freshwater songs set, live from Darkly Artful!

If Boys Could Swim is a version of the traditional Scottish song, 'The Braes of Yarrow', and borrows on verse from 'Hares on the Mountain.'

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Kerry Andrew on vocals
Sam Hall on 'cello and FX
Pete Ashwell on percussion

If Boys Could Swim LIVE from Darkly Artful

Songs from our growing freshwater songs set, live from Darkly Artful!

Put Your Ear To The River (Breathe) is an original one that simply celebrates swimming outside.

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Kerry Andrew on vocals, loops, flute and tin whistle
Sam Hall on 'cello and vocals
Pete Ashwell on percussion and vocals

Breathe In/Out LIVE from Darkly Artful

Live from Darkly Artful at Jamboree.

A traditional song about a fox who can morph into a man...

Vocals and loops: Kerry Andrew
'Cello: Sam Hall
Percussion: Pete Ashwell

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Reynardine LIVE from Darkly Artful

A song from our growing 'freshwater songs' set, live from Darkly Artful at Jamboree!

George Collins in a traditional song about a man who kisses a water sprite. It doesn't end well.

Vocals: Kerry Andrew
Bass guitar: Sam Hall
Electronics: Pete Ashwell

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George Collins LIVE from Darkly Artful

Live from Darkly Artful at Jamboree!

Little Wren is from 'Hawk to the Hunting Gone', my debut album from 2014. It is better known as the traditional song The Cutty Wren.

Vocals, ukelele, cutlery: Kerry Andrew
Bass guitar, cutlery: Sam Hall
Cutlery: Pete Ashwell

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Little Wren LIVE from Darkly Artful

A setting of a 'word-spell' by Robert Macfarlane from his new book with the illustrator Jackie Morris, 'The Lost Words', which takes twenty essential British natural things and evokes them very beautifully.

This is the wren.

Pre-order You Are Wolf's upcoming album, KELD, (named after a word in Robert Macfarlane's 'Landmarks'): https://youarewolf.lnk.to/sylvie

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WREN - SPELL (words by Robert Macfarlane)

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‘English avant-folk at its finest’ Observer

YOU ARE WOLF is the alt-folk project of award-winning British composer, vocalist and author Kerry Andrew.

YOU ARE WOLF presents folk songs and lore with unusual, electronica-tinged arrangements. Their new album, hare // hunter // moth //ghost, explores the theme of transformation following Kerry’s recent experience of four years of debilitating chronic illness and transition to a non-binary identity. The album features collaborations with writers Robert Macfarlane, Nick Hayes and Kerri ní Dochartaigh, and fellow folk artist Sam Lee.

YOU ARE WOLF’s debut album, ‘Hawk to the Hunting Gone’ (Stone Tape, 2014) explored British birds and folklore. Their second album ‘Keld’ (Firecrest Records, 2018) was based around freshwater folklore; it was a Guardian Top Ten Folk Album 2018 and fRoots’ Editor’s Choice! 2018. Their first EP ‘Hunting Little Songs’ was self-released in 2011. 

YOU ARE WOLF has performed on BBC Radio 3 and 4. They have supported Billy Bragg at the Manchester O2, and played at The Great Escape, Leigh Folk Festival, Union Chapel, Cambridge Folk Festival and the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

YOU ARE WOLF visited China for five weeks in 2016 as a British Council Musician in Residence, creating new rock/traditional songs based on foxes in folklore.




Other info:

Kerry Andrew is a composer and author. Kerry’s first two novels, Swansong and SKIN (Jonathan Cape) weaved folklore into contemporary narratives (‘a subtle, supernatural tale told in a present-day voice’ Shirley Collins).

Their next novel, We Are Together Because, is published by Atlantic in Spring 2024. They’ve been twice shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Kerry has won four British Composer Awards, has a PhD in Composition and has written for the BBC Proms, National Theatre, Art on the Underground and London Sinfonietta. They were Chair of the Judges for BBC Young Musician 2018 and has regularly appeared on BBC Radio 3 as a presenter and guest.

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