page_title: Faerie Stories
section_title: Recording and music
hierarchical_section_title: Faerie Stories / Recording and music
caption_attribution_description: English: Cottages, Mortonhall estate Cottages sitting by a now disused walled garden. Viewed from Mounthooly Loan.
context_page_description: Faerie Stories is the second album by Scottish Celtic fusion group Peatbog Faeries, released in 2001 on Greentrax Recordings. The album was reissued in 2008 as a digipack. The album is large departure from the sound of their début album Mellowosity, and sees the band explore a largely electronic sound mixed with their traditional Celtic fusion sound. Influences of electronic genres such as electronica, house, dubtronica and trip hop, in addition to even dub music and African music can be heard on the album fused with traditional Scottish Celtic music.
  Co-produced between the band's percussionist Iain Copeland and Calum MacLean, working under the pseudonym Jason Famous, the album was recorded in 1999 across three Scottish studios but was not released until June 2001 as the original record label intended to release the album, the New York-based Astor Place Recordings, went bankrupt and closed. Despite the delays, the album was released to a very positive critical response, and became one of Greentrax Recordings' best ever selling albums. It was re-released in 2008 on the band's own label Peatbog Records.
context_section_description: The tunes on the album were conceived and arranged on the band's native Isle of Skye and were demoed in keyboardist Nurudin's house on Cabana's Roland VS880 and a small Mac. Ben used his Roland VS1680 to record the majority of his parts in his Edinburgh cottage. Recording of the album took place at three Scottish studios; Lealt Falls in the band's native Isle of Skye, Apollo Recording in Glasgow and Mortonhall Cottage in Edinburgh. "Get Your Frets Off" was recorded in all three studios before, according to the liner notes, the band "sacked everything except the toilet and rebuilt it" for the listener's pleasure. "Cameronian Rant" was remixed in Abbey Road Studios, which also led to the "Beatles reverb" on the track.
  The album is often seen as a more experimental album than Mellowosity (1996), their previous album. Faerie Stories is noted for its more electronic style, combining genres such as electronica, funk and dubtronica. One review noted that with this changes, "musically Faerie Stories is light years apart from their 1996 début album Mellowosity. Indeed, many of the album's tracks feature programming from both the album's production duo of Calum MacLean, working under the pseudonym "Famous", and the band's percussionist Iain Copeland, in addition to keyboard work from Nurudin.
  Opening track "Martin Roachford's/The Oyster Woman's Rant" runs at over seven minutes. The opening sound of water is a recording of a small river in Glen Douglas. "The Folk Police" was written by the band's Peter Morrison during his youth, and was described as being given a "new name and a new lease of life" with its appearance on the album, whilst "Cptain Coull's Parrot" was written in honour of a parrot belonging to the band's manager's brother, a boat skipper, who taught the parrot "unrepeatable statements". The title track features briefly features a recording of birds in its intro that were recorded at Ronnie Rae Junior's house in Nice, France. The track was originally called "So You That That Was Mellow", in reference to the reaction from the band's record label Greentrax Recordings in reaction to the band's preceding album, Mellowosity. "Caberdrone" almost was not  featured on the album until the band re-listened to it and thought "that's great". The closing track, "Alexander MacAskill of Berena, Harris" features a fusion of African music, dub music and pipes. The track which precedes it on the album, "Weirdness", is a minute long instrumental interlude which is described in the liner notes as simply "weird noises" created by the band.
caption: Part of the album was recorded at a cottage in Mortonhall, Edinburgh, like the one pictured.
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