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A darker approach to the old Scottish folk song 'The Deil's Awa' Wi' The Exciseman' (The Devil's Away With The Exciseman) originally written by the poet Robert Burns in 1792 whilst in employment as an Exciseman.

The song describes a Scottish town receiving a visit from the Devil himself who comes fiddling through the streets and abducts the Exciseman (At that time an officer of the state who would collect taxes and arrest smugglers and those committing fraudulent offences.)

The song suggests that perhaps the Exciseman found himself under a dark enchantment of the Devil's fiddling and danced off with him, much to the glee of the local citizens who would happily never see the Exciseman again.

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from The Devil And The Exciseman (The Deil's Awa' Wi' The Exciseman), released January 13, 2022
Written,recorded and engineered by William Westwater at Mandrake Studios Scotland near Edinburgh in Jan 2022.

Lyrics by Robert Burns with some editing by William Westwater

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Dark Sinfonia are an avant garde macabre folk band formed in 2012 by William Westwater of Fear Incorporated,and and Stephen Curran from Sensory Savage. The band write songs themed upon folklore, the occult, darkness, magic and death.

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