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Folk on Foot

Kerry Andrew/You Are Wolf at the Brockwell Lido

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8526 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Kerry Andrew has been described by Robert Macfarlane as “a writer and musician of frankly alarming talent”. She is a composer, novelist and vocalist who performs alt folk under the name You Are Wolf. In this episode she takes Matthew for a walk from her flat in South London, through surprisingly green parkland, to the historic Brockwell Lido where she persuades him to take a dip. Along the way she demonstrates her multi layered vocal technique and sings songs from her albums “Hawk to the Hunting Gone” and “Keld”.

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0:00.0

I'm grateful to our folk on foot guest for introducing me to this verse on her latest album.

0:22.6

What would the world be once bereft of wet and wildness?

0:26.6

Let them be left. Oh, let them be left.

0:29.6

Wildness and wet, long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

0:34.6

But how much wet and wildness will we find on a walk through South London?

0:38.3

You'd be surprised.

0:40.3

You'd be surprised. I'm Oh I'm I'm

0:55.0

I'm

0:56.0

I'm

0:57.0

I'm We're in Ruskin Park in South London on a sunny Sunday morning.

1:25.6

Good morning, thank you.

1:28.5

There's all sorts of wildlife here.

1:29.8

I've already seen a large rat run across the path

1:31.8

and three grey squirrels and a parakeet.

1:35.0

And there's a few humans too, some joggers and passers by.

1:38.9

But it's a little oasis of green and calm

1:41.9

in the midst of an urban landscape.

1:43.8

And we're here on our way to meet

1:46.9

Kerry Andrew, who's been described by Robert McFarlane as a writer and musician of frankly alarming

1:52.8

talent. She's an award-winning composer who focuses on experimental vocal and choral work. She's

1:59.7

recently published her first novel, Swan Song,

2:02.4

but we're here because she's also a folk performer

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