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The title track from Twelfth Day’s new mini-LP Shell Story, out 18 May 2015. Shell Story features three new tracks as well as four remixes from their 2014 album The Devil Makes Three.<\/p>\nThe title track from Twelfth Day’s new mini-LP Shell Story, out 18 May 2015. Shell Story features three new tracks as well as four remixes from their 2014 album The Devil Makes Three.<\/p>\n
The title track is based on a short story of the same name by George McKay Brown, from his collection Winter Tales. The story tells of old island wives coming down to the pier every day to feed scraps of food to the sea birds, believing that they are their husbands and friends lost at sea come back to see them. One old lady \u2013 Charlotte \u2013 goes to the pier every day, but never finds her man Jock. At the end, Jock finally comes to see her and old Charlotte can finally rest happily.<\/p>\n
Twelfth Day are fiddle player Catriona Price and harpist Esther Swift. They both sing \u2013 often in unison, creating a new voice that is neither one nor the other. They both write \u2013 together, weaving traditional folk with classical elements to create a music that\u2019s outside of genre. Lyrically they combine their own experiences, inspirations and dreams, informed by musical travels around the globe and their upbringings in Orkney and the Scottish Borders. They are inseparable.<\/p>\n
\u201c21st century art music for trad fans.\u201d \u2013 fRoots<\/p>\n
In live performance Twelfth Day describe themselves as a two-person quartet \u2013 using harp, fiddle and both voices to conjure a broad array of sounds, textures, rhythms and polyphony. Exploring and pushing the limits of what a duo can achieve is at the heart of everything they do.<\/p>\n
\u201cLush orchestral colours… Bang up to date.\u201d \u2013 The Sunday Times<\/p>\n
Their newest album The Devil Makes Three was released in 2014. Its 10 entirely self-composed songs and tunes (save for a snippet of a traditional lullaby) embody everything that Twelfth Day is: undaunted, adventurous, natural, virtuosic, and quite unlike anyone else.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurrender to their charms you must\u2026 It would be a sin not to.\u201d \u2013 Folk Radio UK<\/p>\n
Artist website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.twelfthdaymusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n Single title:<\/strong> Shell Story Search Terms:<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow these topics: clarsach \/ harp<\/a>, contemporary<\/a>, English language songs<\/a>, Featured release<\/a>, fiddle<\/a>, folk band<\/a>, Releases<\/a>, songwriter<\/a><\/p> The title track from Twelfth Day’s new mini-LP Shell Story, out 18 May 2015. Shell Story features three new tracks as well as four remixes from their 2014 album The Devil Makes Three. The title track is based on a short story of the same name by George McKay Brown, from his collection Winter Tales. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,57,43,7,12,44,4,62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-clarsach","8":"category-contemporary","9":"category-english-language-songs","10":"category-featured-release","11":"category-fiddle","12":"category-folk-band","13":"category-member-releases","14":"category-song-writer","15":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2015\/05\/shell-story-cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlbum title:<\/strong> Shell Story
\nRelease Date:<\/strong> 18\/05\/2015
\nSingle artist:<\/strong> Twelfth Day
\nSingle duration:<\/strong> 4:58
\nRecord Label:<\/strong> Orange Feather Records
\nCatalogue No:<\/strong> OFR004
\nWriters:<\/strong> Catriona Price\/Esther Swift
\nPublishers:<\/strong> Orange Feather Records
\nExplicit?: No<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"