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**theonsushv** · 06-02-2012, 05:14 PM

Also, this might not be appropriate to post here, but I needed to say it anyhow: if you are going to appropriate Irish myths in order to create a modern fairytale song-cycle whatever, THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT!!!

Hahahaha! ABSOLUTELY AGREED.

She takes folklore and folk music that has a very long history, and reworks it into something that that works within her musical language and retells the story in a very fresh way that feels at once modern and ancient. It's one of her finest songs.

There's a movie that centers around selkie folklore too: "the secret of roan inis"

06-02-2012, 05:14 PM	#3
theonsushv Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 574 Senior Member	Also, this might not be appropriate to post here, but I needed to say it anyhow: if you are going to appropriate Irish myths in order to create a modern fairytale song-cycle whatever, *THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT!!!* Hahahaha! ABSOLUTELY AGREED. She takes folklore and folk music that has a very long history, and reworks it into something that that works within her musical language and retells the story in a very fresh way that feels at once modern and ancient. It's one of her finest songs. There's a movie that centers around selkie folklore too: "the secret of roan inis"
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