From The Cutty Wren 10″ Lathe-cut vinyl (ltd. ed.) EP by Willie Gibson & Helen McCookerybook available here (including digital download):
williegibson.bandcamp.com/album/the-cutty-wren.
Just digital download here:
helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/album/the-cutty-wren

Video by Ruth Tidmarsh/Planetruth Pictures.

Music Maters: Musical Ecosystems
Saturday 8th May 2021
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vfrk

“And, Kate talks to lecturer Helen Reddington, author of a new book She’s at the Controls: Sound Engineering, Production and Gender Ventriloquism in the 21st Century, and is joined by sound engineers Jo Langton and Úna Monaghan to discuss the role of female studio professionals in the UK music industry.”

Show repeated at 10 pm on Monday 10th May 2021.

The Cutty Wren EP

“The first collaboration between ex-Monochrome Set[?]/The Chefs singer Helen McCookerybook and analogue synth composer Willie Gibson is one of the more spirited examples of the by now overfamiliar folk meets electronics template. The three tracks commence with an eight minute version of the traditional song ‘The Cutty Wren’, set to what sounds like Jean-Michel Jarre. ‘Fatberg’, an ode to the mountain of congealed oils and garbage that recently blocked London sewers, braids together several nagging melodies in the idiom of New Order circa 1981.”

Dan Barrow, in the The Wire magazine (Electronics) Issue 447: www.thewire.co.uk

[?] McCookerybook has worked with Lester Square (ex) of The Monochrome Set but hasn’t been in them (although she is now an honorary member).

A very limited edition (15) Lathe-cut 10″ vinyl record, and also available as a digital download.

“The Cutty Wren by Helen McCookerybook (whimsy of Vashti Bunyan, zesty harmonies of France Gall) and analogue synthesist master Willie Gibson (stomping synths of the Art of Noise, hints of elegiac Wakeman), is an eclectic three track EP that nods to folk, electronica and prog rock, whilst artfully assimilating McCookerybook’s soul-mining vocals, graceful harmonies and wit. …”

Released on Gare du Nord Records and distributed by Kudos Records:
garedunord.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/gdn45041/willie-gibson-helen-mccookerybook-the-cutty-wren-ep

Buy limited edition Lathe-cut 10″ vinyl record: williegibson.bandcamp.com
Buy digital download: helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com