The Seal-Woman

"The Seal-Woman album by Catherine Carby on Fair Music Project"

Release Date: 2025-06-20T00:00:00.000000Z

  • Prelude
  • Interlude: ‘An Eriskay Lullaby’ (Taladh Eirisgeach)
  • Sure, here on this lone rock in the sea am I… (Cailleach)
  • Ho Dhilsead! To the Kyles and the ships o’ Dhiarmad! (Fishermen, Cailleach)
  • Pillow’d on the sea wrack brown am I… (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister)
  • Mach keel yoro, heeree ahoo-o... (Cailleach, Fishermen)
  • Was I sleeping or dreaming, or did I hear the Seal-Women singing? (Cailleach)
  • Ailean Duinn, thou lure o’ liltin’... (Cailleach) / Swan o’ the west... (Swan-Maidens)
  • Iuraibh o hi... / For the isles my heart is weary, ho ro… (Fishermen)
  • Horororo, far o’er the sea... (Cailleach)
  • But short the time ere ebbing tide… (Islesman, Fishermen)
  • My thousand blessings on thee, Cailleach… (Islesman)
  • Shall I again upon this isle behold the vision… (Islesman)
  • O Mhairead Òg! (Islesman)
  • Bheir mi ò ro bham o… (Islesman)
  • Mind’st thou, Cailleach, that fateful night… (Islesman)
  • Ionn da, Ionn do… (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister, Cailleach, Fishermen)
  • Welcome art thou, dame… (Seal-Woman, Cailleach, Fishermen, Islesman)
  • Far sails the boat… (Seal-Sister, Seal-Woman)
  • Hu ru rithill iu riuaro… (Seal-Woman, Islesman)
  • Avore, my love! Avore, my joy! (Water-Kelpie)
  • So sweet is Morag… (Seal-Woman)
  • Strange longings have I and forebodings on me tonight... (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister)
  • The sea! The sea! from its purple ridges… (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister)
  • Sleep beneath the foam o’ the waves… (Seal-Sister)
  • My child! my child! But what bring’st thou? (Seal-Woman)
  • Sea enchantment! Loveliest blood-drop! (Islesman, Seal-Sister, Seal-Woman)
  • Run thou now within. Ionn da, Ionn do… (Seal-Woman)
  • O pale dark woman of the sea… (Islesman, Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister)
  • Now goes she from us, dream of my heart! (Islesman, Seal-Woman)
  • The sea calls me deep from its purple ridges… (Seal-Woman, Seal-Sister, Islesman)