Two Wolves, by Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock

Two Wolves

by Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock

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1.	Sing Me Into Your Tune 02:22	buy track
2.	Hoping to be Saved 03:51	buy track
3.	The Honey & the Seaweed 02:57	buy track
4.	Digging for Diamonds 04:35	buy track
5.	Two Wolves 04:02	buy track
6.	Caught on Coattails 03:46	buy track
7.	Ginger Brown & Apple Green 02:38	buy track
8.	Woolgathering Girl 04:59	buy track
9.	Velvet Yeller 03:52	buy track
10.	Brighter Thinking 03:15	buy track
11.	Teen & the Thief 03:31	buy track
12.	Mockingbird 02:09	buy track
13.	Circa '73 02:29	buy track
14.	Emotional Vampire 04:34	buy track
15.	Sing Me Into Your Tune Reprise 01:48	buy track

about

Marry Waterson created this album in collaboration with David A. Jaycock. Entitled Two Wolves, it was recorded in May 2015 and produced by guitarist Neill MacColl and multi-instrumentalist & arranger Kate St. John.

The seeds for the union were sown in 2013 when David was asked - via mutual friend and collaborator, James Yorkston - to rearrange Yolk Yellow Legged, a co-write with Yorkston taken from Marry and brother Oliver Knight’s 2011 debut The Days That Shaped Me. David had been struck by the character and warmth of Marry’s singing when he saw her performing with Yorkston in 2009. “It was earthy, dreamlike, warm, powerful and jagged. It had the capacity to be both melancholic and joyful, and it could tell a story - of course Marry Waterson could tell a story!”

When Oliver elected to take a break from music last year, Marry found herself without a musical foil (“I don’t play an instrument, my tunes are sung into existence.”) So she was intrigued when David – described by Yorkston as a ‘Cornish hermit and underground psychedelic freak-ball’ (!) – renewed contact to see if she would be interested in working together.

Hearing David’s music was to prove revelatory. “I felt like I had entered through a door hanging askew on one twisted hinge into a surreal world of cobwebs, all layered guitars and synths,” recalls Marry. “Sometimes it’s scary in there, but mostly it’s beguiling.” All the more so as Marry discovered that “I could sing anything into David’s tunes, the words just wrapped themselves easily around the melodies, though I had to be quite inventive sometimes to accommodate certain structures - and that gave me a different voice.”

Starting with what became Sing Me Into Your Tune – completed in a matter of hours - Marry & David entered into an eager musical correspondence by email and by phone. “What was coming back from Marry convinced me that we were on the right path. I felt a more tonal, but still dreamlike, surreal and at times dark sound was emerging. It was fascinating and exciting sending ideas and waiting to hear what came back. I could still experiment and be playful but always had an ear on keeping to a more traditional structure. Marry was interpreting the pieces beautifully. The lyrics were complete. I felt we were working almost telepathically at times. Modern technology making it all possible.”

The match made, Marry went about assembling a team of musicians around her to best service the material. Having previously worked with Neill MacColl and Kate St. John on several projects including Hal Willner’s Rogue’s Gallery at Sydney Opera House, the Bright Phoebus tour and on the forthcoming Ewan MacColl tribute album Joy of Living (contributing The Exile Song), the pair were the obvious choice to produce the record, in turn enlisting the help of outstanding musicians Kami Thompson (The Rails), Michael Tanner (Plinth), Alison Cotton (The Left Outsides), Simon Edwards (Fairground Attraction) and Emma Black (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra).

“Neill is another brilliant musician who really listens and gives you space,” enthuses Marry. “His contributions are so tasteful yet subtle, his playing is awesome, he’s rock solid and I feel safe with him. Kate’s arrangements are so compelling and definitive, vividly bringing these stories to life. They are both inventive and intuitive players.”

The songs themselves cover a wide range of subject material from laments about disappearing village communities (Hoping to Be Saved) to the title track’s reflection on the duality of human nature. Two songs explicitly acknowledge the Waterson legacy: The words to The Honey and the Seaweed are fashioned from an original Lal Waterson lyric, written out of love for her friend and co-writer Christine Collins and set down in the late 60’s in a book containing early Bright Phoebus songs. Velvet Yeller meanwhile utilizes Mike Waterson’s recording of Tam Lin to startling effect. “I got to ‘sing’ with him one more time by weaving him into this tribute, which he read before he died,” says Marry of the song.

Two Wolves was mixed and mastered by Calum Malcolm (Sandi Thom, Lau, John Tavener) - last but by no means least in a dream team.

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released November 20, 2015

Features Kami Thompson, Michael Tanner and Alison Cotton.

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Marry Waterson England, UK

Singer-songwriter, animator & member of the Waterson family musical dynasty.
Serial collaborator with multiple BBC2 Folk Award
nominations.

"The whole nine yards"-Iggy Pop.

"Truly beautiful, strange and unique"-Mojo.

"One of the UK’s most talented folk singers, songwriters and video artists " -The Guardian ... more

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