Twa Brothers by The Standing Stones is a folk-meets-dub single by Jimmy Cauty and Jem Finer with vocals provided by Scottish folk musician Alasdair Roberts. The song itself is a version of the traditional ballad “The Twa Brothers”.
Official Blurb
50 million years later . . . following an eternity of random mutations and confabulations of atoms, dust and light, Jimmy Cauty and Jem Finer found themselves in a field in Sussex, wrangling a prone twelve-ton hunk of slate into an upright position . . . The Gurdy Stone . . .
In a recent hiatus from megalith building they have founded a new band, The Standing Stones. Their first release sees them joined by the extraordinary Scottish folk singer, Alasdair Roberts, to record a version of the age-old ballad Twa Brothers.
Epic in length, clocking in at just over 10 minutes, Twa Brothers collides traditional Scottish folk singing with hip hop 808s and sirens, police radio traffic and NYC radio news broadcasts to create a hyper-quantised dystopio-folk-horror soundscape, blurring the temporal zones of the songs’ ancient origins with the near future.
Jem Finer’s hurdy-gurdy shredding and Alasdair Roberts’ vocals are combined to great effect by Jimmy Cauty’s mashup production style.
Recorded at Finer’s London studio (Local Sound) and mixed at Cauty’s mountaintop production facility (The Big Omaha) the record is released on the newly formed L-13 Light Industrial Recordings.
Tracks & Formats
L-13LIR24-2
| 12″ Single / October 2024 | ||
| A | Twa Brothers | |
Available as limited edition of 113 copies with a 3 colour screen-print artwork on heavy card inserted signed by Jimmy Cauty, Jem Finer and Alasdair Roberts plus folded A2 poster, and standard edition of 500 copies.
| Digital Single / 13 Sep 2024 | ||
| 1 | Twa Brothers | 10:37 |
| 2 | Twa Brothers (Radio Edit) | 4:27 |
The Radio Edit was not included as a B-side on the 12″ single and is available from the release’s Bandcamp page.
