Album concept by Karine Polwart;
Produced by Rab Noakes;
Studio production by Rab Noakes, Karine Polwart and Mattie Foulds;
Recorded by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland, Scotland;
Canada mixes [1, 3, 5, 11] by Mattie Foulds and Jamie Foulds at Soundpark Studios, Cape Breton;
Photography by Andy Buchanan and Louis De Carlo;
Design by DN MacFarlane at Tangent Multimedia

Faultlines won the Best Album award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2005, with the track The Sun’s Comin’ Over the Hill winning Best Original Song and Karine Polwart herself receiving the Horizon Award for best new artist.

* The release date 22 November 2004 is from Karine’s Bandcamp page. Wikipedia says it’s 19 January 2004.

Musicians

Karine Polwart: vocals, harmony vocals, acoustic guitar;
Mattie Foulds: drums, percussion;
Corrina Hewat: electro-harp, harmony vocals;
Kevin McGuire: double bass;
Steven Polwart: nylon, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo

with
Phil Bancroft: tenor saxophone;
Doug Duncan: trumpet;
Paul Harrison: Hammond organ;
Aidan O’Rourke: fiddle;
Dean Owens, Emily Smith: harmony vocals;
Julian Sutton: melodeon

Tracks

1. Only One Way (2.53)
2. Faultlines (3.16)
3. Four Strong Walls (3.16)
4. The Sun’s Comin’ Over the Hill (4.57)
5. Resolution Road (3.38)
6. Waterlily (4.35)
7. What Are You Waiting For? (2.47)
8. Skater of the Surface (3.27)
9. Harder to Walk These Days Than Run / Harder to Walk Jig (3.48)
10. The Light on the Shore (4.24)
11. Azalea Flower (5.19)

All tracks written by Karine Polwart except
Track 9b Corrina Hewat

[2-3] produced by John Leonard for the BBC;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Artwork by Sarah Roberts;
Layout by Mayfin Design;

Purchasable as an audio download from Karine’s website.

Musicians

Mattie Foulds: drums, percussion;
Kevin McGuire: double bass, vocals;
Karine Polwart: acoustic guitar, lead vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals;
Inge Thomson: piano accordion, melodica, triangle, vocals

Tracks

1. Holy Moses (4.31)
   preview track from Scribbled in Chalk
2. Only One Way (3.06)
3. Daisy (3.27)
   both live from Cambridge Folk Festival on 30 July 2005
4. Waterlily (6.21)
5. Light on the Shore (5.12)
   both live from Darvel Festival on 7 October 2005

All tracks written by Karine Polwart

Produced by Mattie Foulds;
Engineered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Extra recording by Jamie Foulds at Soundpark and Mattie Foulds at The Bothy;
Mastered by Calum Malcolm;
Strings arranged by Greg Laswon;
Original artwork by Sarah Roberts;
Booklet design by Fraser Watson at Mayfin Design

Daisy won the Best Original Song award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2007.

Musicians

Mattie Foulds: drums, percussion;
Kevin McGuire: double bass, vocals;
Karine Polwart: acoustic guitar, lead vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals;
Inge Thomson: piano accordion, melodica, triangle, vocals

with
Martin Green: Hammond, loop station, Moog, Wurlitzer;
Corrina Hewat: acoustic and electro harp, vocals;
Dave Milligan: piano;
Kerry Polwart: glockenspiel, vocals

Strings by Mr McFall’s Chamber:
    Greg Lawson, Robert McFall: violin;
    Brian Schiele: viola;
    Su-a Lee: cello

Tracks

1. Hole in the Heart (4.48)
2. I’m Gonna Do It All (4.56)
3. Daisy (3.27)
4. Maybe There’s a Road (4.17)
5. Where the Smoke Blows (3.16)
6. Holy Moses (4.30)
7. Don’t Know Why (4.39)
8. Take Its Own Time (3.45)
9. I’ve Seen It All (3.22)
10. Baleerie Baloo (3.27)
11. Terminal Star (4.38)
12. Follow the Heron (3.11)

All tracks written by Karine Polwart except
Track 2 Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart

Produced by Mattie Foulds;
Track 1 recorded by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Track 2 recorded by Adam Beard at Sound Emporium, Nashville;
Artwork by Sarah Roberts;
Layout by Fraser Watson at Mayfin Design

Musicians

Mattie Foulds: drums, percussion;
Kevin McGuire: double bass, vocals;
Karine Polwart: acoustic guitar, lead vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals;
Inge Thomson: piano accordion, melodica, triangle, vocals

Tracks

1. I’m Gonna Do It All (radio edit) (3.59)
2. John C. Clark (The Gasman Song) (3.15)
3. I’m Gonna Do It All (CD ROM video)

All tracks written by Karine Polwart

Video

Produced by Mattie Foulds;
Track 1 recorded by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Tracks 2-3 recorded by Mattie Foulds at The Bothy;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Artwork by Sarah Roberts;
Layout by Fraser Watson at Mayfin Design

Musicians

Mattie Foulds: drums, percussion;
Kevin McGuire: double bass, vocals;
Karine Polwart: acoustic guitar, lead vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals;
Inge Thomson: piano accordion, melodica, triangle, vocals

Tracks

1. Daisy (3.27)
   from Scribbled in Chalk
2. Where the Smoke Blows (Bothy acoustic mix) (2.47)
3. Terminal Star (Bothy acoustic mix) (3.51)

All tracks written by Karine Polwart

Recorded at The Spare Room, Carlekemp Lodge and Castlesound Studios by Mattie Foulds, Calum Malcolm and Stuart Hamilton;
Mixed by Jamie Foulds at Soundpark Studios, Cape Breton;
Produced by Mattie Foulds and Karine Polwart;
Artwork by Sarah Roberts;
Booklet design by Fraser Watson at Mayfin Design

Musicians

Karine Polwart: acoustic guitar, lead vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals;
Kim Edgar: piano [1, 6]

Tracks

1. Dowie Dens of Yarrow (Roud 13; Child 214; G/D 2:215) (6.01)
2. Thou Hast Left Me Ever Jamie (Roud V456) (3.00)
3. Mirk, Mirk Is the Midnight Hour (Roud 22558) (3.55)
4. Birks of Invermay (Roud 3858) (3.00)
5. Will Ye Go tae Flanders? (Roud 8544) (3.57)
6. The Lea-Rig (Roud 8516) (3.18)
7. The Death of Queen Jane (Roud 77; Child 170; G/D 3:693) (3.45)
8. The Wife of Usher’s Well (Roud 196; Child 79) (6.49)
9. Can’t Weld a Body (4.04)
   preview track from the Radio Ballad The Ballad of the Big Ships

Track 1 trad. arr. Karine Polwart, Kim Edgar;
Tracks 2-3 Robert Burns arr. Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart;
Track 4 David Mallet arr. Karine Polwart;
Track 5 trad., John Faulkner, Billy Ross;
Track 6 Robert Burns arr. Karine Polwart, Kim Edgar;
Tracks 7-8 trad. arr. Karine Polwart;
Track 9 Karine Polwart, Jez Lowe

Bed tracks recorded by Calum Malcolm at Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland, except [4, 8] recorded by Stuart Hamilton;
Additional recording by Calum Malcolm at Heriot Toun Studio, Scottish Borders, and Crichton Church, Midlothian;
Produced and mixed by Calum Malcolm with Mattie Foulds and Karine Polwart,
Additional mixing [4, 8] by Jamie Foulds at Soundpark Studios, Cape Breton;
Masteres by Calum Malcolm;
Photography by David Angel;
Layout by Fraser Watson at Mayfin Design

Musicians

Karine Polwart: lead vocals, acoustic and tenor guitar, shruti box;
Mattie Foulds: drums, percussion;
Kevin McGuire: double bass, electric bass, vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, vocals;
Inge Thomson: accordion, bass melodica, kalimba, loop station, vocals

Tracks

1. The Good Years (3.46)
   originally recorded for Ballads of the Book
2. Sorry (4.18)
3. Better Things (3.52)
4. Rivers Run (3.08)
5. Painted It White (4.50)
6. Firethief (3.29)
   written for the Radio Ballad The Enemy That Lives Within
7. Behind Our Eyes (4.50)
8. The News (3.12)
9. Sorrowlessfield (4.39)
10. Tongue That Cannot Lie (8.19)

All tracks written by Karine Polwart except
Track 1 words Edwin Morgan, music Karine Polwart;
Track 9 words Karine Polwart, music Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart

Video

The Karine Polwart Band perform Rivers Run in an upstairs room before their gig at Farnham Maltings in 2009:

Recorded at Cambridge Folk Festival 2008

Musicians

Karine Polwart: acoustic guitar, shruti box, vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and tenor guitar, ukulele, vocals;
Inge Thomson: accordion, flute, percussion, vocals

Tracks

1. Maid of the Loch (You and I and the Sky) (4.20)
2. What Will I Tell? (3.51)
3. Mirk, Mirk Is the Midnight Hour (Roud 22558) (3.56)
4. Lovelines (2.37)
5. 1,2,3,4,5 (3.44)
6. Wells for Zoë (3.33)
7. Dowie Dens of Yarrow (Roud 13; Child 214; G/D 2:215) (6.04)
8. Firethief (4.10)

Track 1 Karine Polwart, Sushil K Dade;
Track 2 Karine Polwart; original version is on The Enemy That Lives Within;
Track 3 Robert Burns arr. Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart;
Track 4 Karine Polwart, Gordie Sampson;
Track 5 Karine Polwart, Kim Edgar;
Track 6 Karine Polwart; original version is on Wells for Zoë;
Track 7 trad. arr. Karine Polwart, Kim Edgar

Note: I don’t have this elusive album but got the information from Discogs.
Alternate versions of tracks [1-2, 4-6] used to be available from Karine’s website but were left out of her site relaunch in October 2015.

This EP was originally on sale at Karine Polwart’s gigs only. It is now available as bonus tracks of the digital download of her album This Earthly Spell.

Engineered and mixed by Mattie Foulds at Mobile With a Home Studio (Heriout Toun & Pathhead);
[3-5] are live recordings from City Halls, Glasgow, at Celtic Connections Festival on 25 January 2009;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland;
Cathedral artwork by Sarah Roberts;
Design and layout by Mayfin Design

Musicians

Karine Polwart: acoustic guitar, shruti box, vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and tenor guitar, ukulele, vocals;
Inge Thomson: accordion, flute, percussion, vocals;
Kim Edgar: piano, vocals;
Mattie Foulds: percussion;
Jenny Hanson: viola, violin, vocals;
Dave Milligan: rhodes

Tracks

1. Medusa (5.19)
2. We’re All Leaving (4.45)

3. Beo Beo (live) (4.19)
4. Terminal Star (live) (5.51)
5. The Wife of Usher’s Well (Roud 196; Child 79) (live) (7.71)
   all three are live recordings from City Halls, Glasgow, at Celtic Connections Festival on 25 January 2009

Track 1 James Keelaghan, Karine Polwart;
Track 2 Daved Gunning, Karine Polwart;
Tracks 3-4 Karine Polwart;
Track 5 trad. arr. Karine Polwart

Video

The video shows another live recording of Karine Polwart singing Beo Beo and We’re All Leaving. (The upload from September 2009 unfortunately does not mention the venue):

Recorded and mixed by Mattie Foulds at Mobile With a Home Studio, Heriot Toun;
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios;
Cover image by Aidan O’Rourke

Musicians

Karine Polwart: vocals, tenor guitar;
Kris Drever: vocals, guitar;
Martin Green: accordion, Wurlitzer electric piano;
Aidan O’Rourke: fiddles

Tracks

1. Evergreen (4.09)
2. The January Man (4.01)
3. Midnight Feast (3.43)
4. From Rags to Riches (4.15)
5. Lord Yester (6.07)

Track 1 words Karine Polwart, music Karine Polwart, Kris Drever, Martin Green, Aidn O’Rourke;
Track 2 Dave Goulder;
Track 3 Lal Waterson, Oliver Knight;
Track 4 Robert Bell, Paul Gerard Buchanan;
Track 5 words George Weir, music Roy Williamson

Musicians

Karine Polwart: vocals, guitar;
Steven Polwart: guitar, ukulele;
Inge Thomson: accordion, flute, percussion, vocals

Tracks

1. Merry Xmas Everybody (2.39)

Track 1 Noddy Holder, Jim Lea

Filmed and edited by Forest of Black;
Sleeve design by Mayfin Design;
Photography by Reed Ingram Weir;
Studio sound by Mattie Foulds at Mobile With a Home;
Sound mastering by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios

Musicians

Karine Polwart: vocals, acoustic guitar, shruti box;
Steven Polwart: acoustic, electric and tenor guitars, ukulele, vocals;
Inge Thomson: accordion, flute, percussion, vocals

with guests
Kim Edgar: piano [7, 11];
Signy Jakobsdottir: glockenspiel, marimba, percussion [1, 8]

Tracks

1. Follow the Heron
2. Sorry
3. Rivers Run
4. We’re All Leaving
5. Medusa
6. Salters Road
7. Blood, Ice and Ashes
8. Waterlily
9. Daisy
10. Tongue That Cannot Lie
11. Now Westlin Winds (Roud 6936)
12. From Rags to Riches
13. Tinsel Show
14. I’m Gonna Do It All
15. The Lea-Rig (Roud 8516)
16. Faultlines / Where the Smoke Blows
17. Terminal Star

All tracks by Karine Polwart except
Track 4 Karine Polwart, Dave Gunning;
Track 7 Kim Edgar, Karine Polwart;
Tracks 11, 15 Robert Burns;
Track 12 Robert Bell, Paul Gerard Buchanan;
Track 14 Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart

Alasdair Roberts & Karine Polwart recorded by Mattie Foulds at Heriot Toun on 9 February 2011;
Drew Wright recorded at Verden Studios, Portobello, Scotland, March 2011;

Musicians

Side 1: Alasdair Roberts & Karine Polwart;
Side 2: Drew Wright, vocals, shruti box

Tracks

Side 1: Alasdair Roberts & Karine Polwart

1. Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (Roud 36; Child 46; G/D 4:842; Henry H681) (4.13)

Side 2: Drew Wright

2. The Dowie Dens o’ Yarrow (Roud 13; Child 214; G/D 2:215) (5.04)

Produced by Ian Cook;
Recorded by Mattie Foulds at Mobile With a Home, Heriot Toun, with additional recording by Iain Cook at Alucard Studios and by Jamie Savage at Chem 19;
Mixed by Iain Cook at Alucard Studios and by Iain Cook, Mattie Foulds, Stuart Hamilton and Karine Polwart at Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland;
Mastered by Jon Astley, Close to the Edge;
Photography by Paul Heartfield;
Design by Karine Polwart;
Layout by Van Gill Media

Musicians

Karine Polwart: acoustic and tenor guitar, Indian harmonium, shruti box, percussion, vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals;
Inge Thomson: piano accordion, glockenspiel, percussion, sansula, vocals

with
Iain Cook: piano, keyboards, percussion;
Steven Cowling: horn;
Leila Dunn: clarinet;
Mattie Foulds: percussion;
Sarah Hayes: flute;
Tom Poulson, Alex Trotter: trumpets;
Iain Sandilands: marimba, snare, vibraphone

Tracks

1. Cover Your Eyes (3.28)
2. King of Birds (4.09)
3. Tears for Lot’s Wife (3.59)
4. Don’t Worry (3.42)
5. We’re All Leaving (4.42)
6. Tinsel Show (3.35)
7. Strange News (5.08)
8. Sticks ’n’ Stones (5.19)
9. Salters Road (3.41)
10. Half a Mile (5.31)

Digital download bonus track

11. Handbasket (3.04)

Tracks 1, 3, 7, 10 Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart;
Tracks 2, 4, 6, 8-9 Karine Polwart;
Track 5 Karine Polwart, Dave Gunning

This is a compilation of Karine Polwart’s earlier albums to introduce her to non-UK markets.

Musicians

Karine Polwart: guitar, vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals;
Inge Thomson: piano accordion, glockenspiel, percussion, vocals

Tracks

1. Rivers Run (3.08)
2. Medusa (5.17)
3. Take Its Own Time (3.45)
4. Daisy (3.27)
5. Dowie Dens of Yarrow (Roud 13; Child 214; G/D 2:215) (6.01)
6. Better Things (3.51)
7. Sorry (4.18)
8. The Death of Queen Jane (Roud 77; Child 170; G/D 3:693) (3.45)
9. Follow the Heron (3.11)
10. The Good Years (3.46)
11. Terminal Star (live at Celtic Connections on 25 January 2009) (5.48)

All tracks written by Karine Polwart except
Track 2 Karine Polwart, James Keelaghan;
Track 5 trad. arr. Karine Polwart, Kim Edgar;
Track 8 trad. arr. Karine Polwart;
Track 10 words Edwin Morgan, music Karine Polwart

Tracks 3-4, 9 are from Scribbled in Chalk (2006);
Tracks 5, 8 are from Fairest Floo’er (2007);
Tracks 1, 6-7, 10 are from This Earthly Spell (2008);
Tracks 2, 11 are from Build Your Own Cathedral (2009)

This is the studio adaption of Karine Polwart & Pippa Murphy’s highly acclaimed Wind Resistance theatre show, which premiered at Edinburgh International Festival in 2016.

Produced by Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy;
Recorded by Stuart Hamilton;
Additional recording by Mattie Foulds;
Mixed by Andy Bell;
Mastered by Dean Honer;
Cover artwork by Laurence Winram;
Photography by Sandy Butler;
Graphic design by Robin Beatty

Musicians

Karine Polwart: vocals, guitar, shruti box, sansula, synthesiser;
Pippa Murphy: sound design, piano;
Corrina Hewat: harp;
Sandra Mackay: Gaelic vocal [2, 7];
Kevin McGuire: bass;
Calum McIntyre: drums, percussion, glockenspiel, marimba;
Kate Young: wailing [2, 7]

Tracks

LP Side 1

1. All on a Summer’s Evening (4.18)
   including Skippin’ Barfit Through the Heather (Roud 9750)
2. The Moor Speaks (4.37)
   including My Little One Shall Sleep and He Shall Havethe Birth from Alexander Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica (Volume V)
3. Lark in the Clear Air (2.57)
   including The Lark in the Clear Air (Roud 24791)
4. Labouring and Resting (3.14)

LP Side 2

5. Tyrannic Man’s Dominion (7.16)
   including Now Westlin Winds (Roud 6936)
6. Place to Rest and Mend (3.41)
7. A Benediction (3.53)

LP Side 3

8. Small Consolation (6.23)
9. White Old Woman of the Night (2.53)
10. Sphagnum Mass for a Dead Queen (4.47)
    including The Death of Queen Jane (Roud 77; Child 170; G/D 3:693)
11. Lullaby for a Lost Mother (1.39)

LP Side 4

12. Remember the Geese (3.14)
13. Molly Sime’s Welcome to Salter’s Road (6.32)
14. We Are All Bog Born (1.03)

Music by Pippa Murphy and Karine Polwart;
Words by Karine Polwart except noted above

Video

Karine Polwart performs Labouring and Resting:

All on a Summer’s Evening, video by Marry Waterson:

Produced by Karine Polwart with Inge Thomson and Stuart Hamilton;
Recorded and mixed by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland;
Mastered by Dean Honer;
Photography by Sandy Butler;
Graphic design by Robin Beatty

Musicians

Karine Polwart: Indian harmonium, tenor guitar, piano, vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals;
Inge Thomson: piano accordion, glockenspiel, percussion, sansula, synthesisers, vocals;
Kevin McGuire: double bass;
Calum McIntyre: kit, percussion;
Richard Medrington: spoken vocals [10];
Magnus Robb and Sound Approach: snipe drumming sample [7]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Ophelia (5.52)
2. Laws of Motion (5.18)
3. I Burn But I Am Not Consumed (5.25)
4. Suitcase (3.32)
5. Cornerstone (4.39)

Side 2

6. Matsuo’s Welcome to Muckhart (5.14)
7. Young Man on a Mountain (4.00)
8. Crow on the Cradle (4.25)
9. The Robin (5.01)
10. Cassiopeia (4.42)

Tracks 1, 3, 7, 9 words Karine Polwart, music Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart;
Tracks 2, 4 Martin Green, Karine Polwart;
Track 5 Karine Polwart;
Track 6 words Karine Polwart, music Martin Green, Karine Polwart;
Track 8 Sydney Carter;
Track 10 words Karine Polwart, music Karine Polwart, Steven Polwart, Inge Thomson

Video

Karine Polwart sings Ophelia:

Karine Polwart, Inge Thomson and Steven Polwart at the Hudson Records Listening Club on 3 May 2020:

Produced by Karine Polwart;
Recorded by Paul Savage at Chem19;
Mastered by Ian Carter;
Artwork by Jen Frankwell;
Sleeve layout by Jono Das

Musicians

Louis Abbott: kit, percussion, glockenspiel, guitar, Omnichord, vocals;
Calum McIntyre: kit, percussion, glockenspiel, marimba, vibraphone, vocals;
Karine Polwart: Indian harmonium, tenor guitar, synthesiser, vocals;
Steven Polwart: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals;
Graeme Smillie: piano, Thodes, keyboards, bass;
Inge Thomson: piano accordion, glockenspiel, percussion, synthesiser, vocals

Tracks

Side 1

1. The Whole of the Moon [Waterboys, 1985] (5.52)
2. From Rags to Riches [The Blue Nile, 1984] (4.19)
3. Dignity [Deacon Blue, 1987] (4.40)
4. Since Yesterday [Strawberry Switchblade, 1984] (4.23)
5. Swim Until You Can’t See Land [Frightened Rabbit, 2009] (4.50)
6. Chance [Big Country, 1983] (4.15)

Side 2

6. The Mother We Share [Chvrches, 2013] (3.14)
7. Don’t Want to Know [John Martyn, 1973] (4.30)
8. Whatever’s Written in Your Heart [Gerry Rafferty, 1978] (4.25)
9. Machines [Biffy Clyro, 2007] (3.54)
10. Women of the World [Ivor Cutler, 1983] (4.35)

Video

Karine Polwart sings Women of the World:

Karine Polwart sings The Mother We Share:

Produced by Karine Polwart;
Recorded and mixed by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland;
Mastered by Sam Proctor at Lismore Mastering;
Original artwork by Jenni Douglas;
Graphic design by Van Gill Media;
Art direction by Karine Polwart

Folk Radio UK review by Billy Rough

Musicians

Karine Polwart: vocals;
Dave Milligan: piano;
Stephen Deazley: harmony vocals [9]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Craigie Hill (Roud 5165) (5.43)
2. Heaven’s Hound (3.43)
3. The Path That Winds Before Us (4.13)
4. The Parting Glass (Roud 3004; G/D 8:1531; Henry H769) (3.41)
5. The Old Men of the Shells (5.48)

Side 2

6. The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (3.26)
7. Siccar Point (5.57)
8. Talk to Me of Mendocino (3.17)
9. Travel These Ways (3.17)
10. Ae Fond Kiss (4.28)

Tracks 1, 4 trad. arr. Dave Milligan, Karine Polwart;
Track 2 Michael Marra;
Tracks 3, 9 Karine Polwart;
Track 5 Alasdair Roberts;
Track 6 Richard Fariña;
Track 7 Dave Milligan, Karine Polwart;
Track 8 Kate McGarrigle;
Track 10 Robert Burns

This is the studio adaption of Karine Polwart & Pippa Murphy’s highly acclaimed Wind Resistance theatre show, which premiered at Edinburgh International Festival in 2016.

Produced by Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy;
Recorded by Stuart Hamilton;
Additional recording by Mattie Foulds;
Mixed by Andy Bell

Musicians

Karine Polwart: vocals, guitar, shruti box, sansula, synthesiser;
Pippa Murphy: sound design, piano;
David Milligan: piano [2]

Tracks

1. Ballon de Paris (2.52)
2. Wind Blown (4.45)
3. Night Bees (3.36)
4. Lightseekers (5.37)

Words by Karine Polwart, music by Pippa Murphy and Karine Polwart