Emily Portman's abbum Coracle was released on 22nd June 2015.
From folkradio.co.uk: The first song, Darkening Bell, is one of the album’s highlights, its subject matter a visit made by Emily and some friends to the ancient Gop Caves in North Wales. On the top of the hill in which the caves are located is Gop Cairn [see nearby sites list above], which is thought to have been constructed some 6,000 years ago – it’s also rumoured to be either Boudica’s grave, or the burial place of a Roman general – while the caves themselves have been said to lead into underground tunnels used by the Celtic warriors of the local Tegeingl tribe to mount guerrilla attacks on the invading Roman army in the 1st century AD.
It’s no surprise, then, that Emily’s lyric reflects the site’s richly inspirational history with a highly evocative word picture of one of its possible pasts. A distant banjo and slow, stately percussion sparkle like ancient gold behind the smoky strings of Lucy Farrell and Rachel Newton (Emily’s bandmates in her trio) before the tempo quickens to an intense and atmospheric conclusion.
Read more at
http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2015/06/emily-portman-coracle/
http://www.emilyportman.co.uk
Video for Darkening Bell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiqDIAH9R5g
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