A Pale Harvest: Ritual Dances Of Hookland County, by William Wright

A Pale Harvest: Ritual Dances Of Hookland County

by William Wright

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paulatwilson Beautiful and evocative, this album will transport you to another place, a forest filled with magic and mystery.

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1.	i. Equinox: Wren Danse 03:40	buy track
2.	ii. Hunting The Witch: Fire Danse 03:12	buy track
3.	iii. St Lazarus Eve: Stay Cold and Low 02:11	buy track
4.	iv. St John’s Eve: (field recording) 02:34	buy track
5.	v. The Festival Of Safe Return: His Breath Upon the Tide 04:12	buy track
6.	vi. Feast of St. Giles: The Parade Of Hoods 03:16	buy track
7.	vii. The Crow Feast 03:17	buy track
8.	viii. Feast of St. Nicholas: Carol Of The Boy Bishop 03:42	buy track

about

All of these pieces are a celebration of place, of memory and of the mystery of belief.

The histories of the world breathe through public and private ritual, and nowhere more than in the ghost soil of The County. I did my best to spend this year of dreams and contemplation somewhere between your England and my Appalachia, between imagined place and the physical world, between the shadows and the light, to find each dirge, reel, march, and dance. The road into that paranatural place is grown over and easy to miss, but an incomparable blessing when found.

The heart of this work pulses there. - W

credits

released August 1, 2019

Tracks 1, 2, 5, and 7 recorded at Weird World.
Track 3 - field recording courtesy of BBC Radio Hookland’s archive Pirate Broadcasts Of The 1950’s. Original source unknown.
Track 4 recorded at Queen of Heaven Church, Old Tarling.
Track 6 recorded at The Church of Our Lady Stella Maris, Spitstone.
Track 8 recorded at Weychester Cathedral, Weychester.

Mixed at Weird World, Knoxville
Composed by William Wright.
All performances by William Wright
Lyrics by William Wright
Art Design by Tuyen Ho
Libretto: The Hookland Bible, courtesy of David Southwell