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Anointed Queen

by Firefay & Alison O'Donnell

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vsp Taps into the ancient eeriness of folk music with Alison's tart vocals and Fairefay's musical settings. Great Acid Folk, Folk Rock, Progressive Folk or whatever you want to classify it as. Fans of Mellow Candle, Pentangle and Steeleye Span will dig it. Favorite track: Come All Ye Malcontents.
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1.
Big sister has a blue rinsed head. A goose down duvet on her bed ...
2.
Night Spell 02:20
Feel like shapeshifting. The beam is on the path ...
3.
Five little maids in their seersucker dresses. One will hoist a barrel and another will count ...
4.
White Lilies 05:09
When Juno laid the milky road the strongest son was at her breast ...
5.
Hart Fell 03:46
Many fair days I walk by the larch. Soft green needles don't hurt me ...
6.
Ear to the ground on a bed of broken brick. Incapable of sound the air is thick. The drum it split and blood lies spent and slick ...
7.
Come all you malcontents. Walk among the weeds on the garden path. Down from your crumbling towers, you are going to be led astray ...
8.
A sultry evening years ago I closed my eyes in a bed of fern ...
9.
The killer and his entourage sacrifice the bull. Lances in his powerful neck are pointing at the sky. His death in the afternoon is a bloody ancient art ...
10.
Hurry yourself alongside icy water raging out from the glen ...
11.

about

A collaboration between folk noir London-based group Firefay and Alison with the result taken up by Steven Collins of Stone Tape. Songs about homelessness, depression, the barbarity of bullfighting and running bulls in the streets, the London riots of 2012, the devastation of an air strike in WW11 and more.

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released January 1, 2014

Lyrics & vocal melodies Alison, some based on original themes by Carole Bulewski. Music Adam Bulewski, Alison & Matt Grabham. Alison vox, autoharp, Adam guitars & other, Anton Pazicky accordion, Samir Dawoud, Simon Davies & Ronnie Maxwell bass, Sebastian Kellig cellos, Paolo Italicum & Nigel Band drums, Carole Bulewski harpsichord, Chris Letch & Adam percussion, Matt Grahbam & Paulette Singer violins. Recorded & produced at Grove & Bush Studios. Alison recorded by Geoffrey Perrin & Jack Cawley in Dublin. Mastered by Adam at Grove. Photography & cover art by Flack. All songs PRS for Music except track 11.

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Alison O'Donnell Dublin, Ireland

Singer, musician, writer of songs & soundscapes. Collaborator in a number of bands across folk, trad, alternative & cross genres. Long career going back to Mellow Candle as a teenager. Student of United Bible Studies. Songs are meaningful and frequently pastoral and poetic, sung with passion and heart.
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