Morvern Callar is Jane Abernethy, an artist in her own right, as well as a collaborator to the 50 mintues project. 50 artists are contributing a track of 1 minute in length to a charity album. The album is released on CD and Itunes tomorrow, the 30th October. Jane was kind enough to let me share her contribution - 1 of the 50. You can hear one track every week on Huw Stephen’s One Music show on Radio 1, he is slowly making his way through all the music. All proceeds from the album go to the Medical foundation for the victims of torture and the album features tracks from Piney Gir, Jeremy Warmsley, Emmy and Great and 47 other artists including Morvern Callar’s contribution that you can sample below.

“The Lover’s Stone” is a track about a ritual on the island of St Kilda, out in the Atlantic north east of the Scottish mainland. The island is now unhabited, but, as Jane explains “Before a couple would marry the man would have to climb ‘the lover’s stone’ and stand on one foot at the very edge and catch abird to show he could provide for a family…”. The song is a floating folk acoustic ship travelling between ports that welcome it, but are equally happy to see it leave.

MP3 Morvern Callar - The Lovers Stone (1 minute version)

Morvern Callar have more, longer but just as nice music @ myspace.com/hazeyjane

Buy the 50minutes album @ .exercise1.net/50minutes/ from tomorrow.

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