Winter Is Icumen In
Take a spin around the musical maypole with Verity Sharp as we mark the 50th anniversary of The Wicker Man, with a mixtape by the film鈥檚 associate music director, Gary Carpenter.
鈥淲elcome, fool. You have come of your own free will to the appointed place. The game is over.鈥
Take a spin around the musical maypole with Verity Sharp as Late Junction marks the 50th anniversary of cult classic The Wicker Man. With a soundtrack that weaves together traditional song, nursery rhymes, psychedelic folk, Robert Burns鈥檚 ballads and medieval polyphony, the film has set the tone and the bar for folk horror since its release in December 1973. Over the past 50 years, it has inspired countless artists, filmmakers and musicians, and become synonymous with a certain kind of sound and aesthetic.
As the seasons change and we approach the end of the wheel of the year鈥檚 current cycle, Verity reaches for some dark eerie folk, sonic rituals and pagan techno as well as ballads of seduction and fertility. Plus an exclusive mixtape from the composer Gary Carpenter, who worked as the associate music director on the film and assembled Magnet, the band that performed most of the soundtrack. Gary鈥檚 mixtape gives us an insight into the musical world that informed the soundtrack, as well as some of his own inspirations and favourites.
Produced by Katie Callin
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Magnet
Appointment With The Wicker Man
- The Wicker Man OST.
- Trunk.
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Gazelle Twin & NYX
Fire Leap
- Deep England.
- NYX Collective Records.
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Magnet
"Festival" / "Mirie It Is" / "Sumer Is A-Cumen In"
- The Wicker Man OST.
- Trunk.
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CIRCA ALTO
Ritual No. 2
- Rituals.
- L岽徤瘁礇岽纱岽 Series.
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Jack Webber
The Spirit of Reuben sings (1939)
- Spectra ex Machina: A Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena.
- Sub Rosa Label.
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Adela Mede
What The Heart Sees Not
- Ne L茅pj a Vir谩gra.
- mappa.
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Sombat Simla
Line Rod-fai - Train
- Master of Bamboo Mouth Organ - Isan, Thailand.
- Black Truffle.
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Chris & Cosey
Pagan Tango
- Pagan Tango.
- Wax Trax! Records.
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Manuel Chittka
IV
- Kroccoli.
- tsss tapes.
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Assiko Golden Band De Grand Yoff
Magg Tekki
- Magg Tekki.
- Mississippi Records.
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Gentle Stranger
Inner Winter
- Inner Winter.
- PRAH Recordings.
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Laura Cannell
Echoes in the Cathedral
- Midwinter Processionals.
- Brawl Records.
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Nick Hart & Tom Moore
The Colour of Amber
- The Colour of Amber.
- Slow Worm Records.
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R.A.N. (H脺MA UTKU)
Kul
- 艦eb鈥-鈥媔 Yelda.
- Karlrecords.
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A茂sha Devi
The Infinite Chemistry of the Betwixt (Tool)
- Death is 91热爆.
- Houndstooth.
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The Crossing
The Adoration: Staggering, Elegant, Beautiful Thing
- Sumptuous Planet: A Secular Mass.
- New Focus Recordings.
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Magnet
Gently Johnny
- The Wicker Man OST.
- Trunk.
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Magnet
Lullaby
- The Wicker Man OST.
- Trunk.
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Magnet
Opening Music / Loving Couples / The Ruined Church
- The Wicker Man OST.
- Trunk.
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John Tavener
A Celtic Requiem - Requiem Aeternam
- Celtic Requiem (Requiem For Jenny Jones).
- Apple Records.
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Ian Cutler
Azeri
- Azeri.
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Pentangle
Lyke Wake Dirge
- Basket of Light.
- Transatlantic Records.
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Nevill Coghill
The Prologue
- The Canterbury Tales.
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Magnet
Lullaby
- The Wicker Man OST.
- Trunk.
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Benjamin Britten
Corpus Christi Carol
- Corpus Christi Carol.
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Jeff Buckley
Corpus Christi Carol
- Grace.
- Columbia Records.
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Comus
The Herald
- First Utterance.
- Dawn.
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The Bothy Band
Butterfly
- The Bothy Band.
- Mulligan.
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John Tavener
A Celtic Requiem - Dies Irae
- Celtic Requiem (Requiem For Jenny Jones).
- Apple Records.
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Magnet
Sunset
- The Wicker Man OST.
- Trunk.
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Diamanda Gal谩s
Lord is my Shepherd
- You Must Be Certain of the Devil.
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Nkisi
Centripetal Vortex
- Avebury.
- purge.xxx.
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Lisa O'Neill
Lullaby of London
- Lullaby of London.
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Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
Surface
- Effect of Clouds.
- scatterArchive.
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Borange
Incantations of Prester John
- Yantakara.
- Nonlocal Research.
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McCorman
Respiro
- A Page Is Turned, A Mountain Collapses, A Guy Leaves.
- Kohlhaas.
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Burd Ellen
The Highland Widow's Lament
- Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter.
- Was Ist Das?.
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