Using voice, guitar and other sounds, Mary explores the subtle and sometimes surreal territory between folk song and art song. Drawing on her background in chamber writing and her deep love for the freer, more haptic spirit of traditional field recordings, she sets old and new songs to work alongside each other, so she can play with certain tensions that are perpetually at work in the world: the past and the present, the natural and the civilised, the extraordinary and the familiar, the symbolic and the real…