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Songs for Mariann Voaden

by Ian Humberstone

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    Double 10" vinyl in gate-fold sleeve with research booklet. Packaged in hand-stamped and numbered manilla paper bag. From the Folklore Tapes reissue series. Includes download code for both records. Edition of 500.

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'Songs for Mariann Voaden' is one half of the first Folklore Tapes release 'Two Witches'. From the Folklore Tapes website:

‘Two Witches’ is where [Folklore Tapes] began. This inaugural volume resulted from a postal correspondence between David Chatton Barker and Ian Humberstone in 2011, and was released as a split cassette housed in a hollowed-out hardback book later that year. The original recordings have been remastered for this lavish reissue, which is presented as a double ten-inch vinyl sited in a gatefold sleeve, complete with expanded research notes and artwork. This release is the definitive edition and marks the beginning of a wider reissue series for Folklore Tapes’ back catalogue, further editions of which will arrive throughout 2015.

The release itself provides a sonic impression of two long-forgotten figures from Devon lore: Hannah Henley and Mariann Voaden. Though they never met, both women lived in rural Devon during the nineteenth century and fostered highly idiosyncratic careers in the provision of charms and curses, at a time when belief in the reality of witchcraft was in decline. Hannah and Mariann were thus engaged in an age-old profession experiencing its death throes, the last in a long line of wizened crones to provide their neighbours with folk-remedies and blessings, to threaten them with hue and cry.

Building upon the scanty historical record, these recordings recreate the world of Hannah and Mariann as a living soundscape, giving flesh to the bare bones of their stories.

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released November 1, 2011

Recorded to four-track cassette tape in Edinburgh, June 2011. Written, performed and produced by Ian Humberstone (clock, clarinet, drums, organ, vocals; 1-8), with Malcolm Benzie (violin; 1, 2, 5). Mastered by Nico Marcel.

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Ian Humberstone Edinburgh, UK

Musician and writer based in Edinburgh. Recording sound to magnetic tape since 2005.

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