“Ten Tongues” is the second single released (Jan 23) by Hack-Poets Guild (see previous posts). This time the song is lead by Marry Waterson who made this lush video as well! The stunningly gothic track is inspired by ‘eyewitness’ accounts from a collection of “Stray Notes of Oxfordshire” set down in 1905 found in the Bodleian Library: Would be robber and murderer, ‘Price’ was hanged from a gibbet for his crime, it’s said that birds made a nest in his skull and so the villagers rhymed “Ten tongues in one head, one went out to seek for bread, to feed the living and the dead.” AVAILABLE NOW ON ONE LITTLE INDEPENDANT RECORDS
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LISTEN TO TEN TONGUES HERE: https://hack-poetsguild.lnk.to/tentongues
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PRE-ORDER ALBUM ‘Blackletter Garland’ HERE: https://hack-poetsguild.lnk.to/blackletter-garland
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ARTWORK BY DESDEMONA McCANNON
“Marry’s voice is to the forefront of her compositions… which draw astounding poignancy as much from their source texts as from their mournful demeanour and lush, autumnal colourings.” David Kidman for Folk London