Emily Barker: A Dark Murmuration Of Words

Emily Barker: A Dark Murmuration Of Words (Deluxe Edition)

Emily Barker: A Dark Murmuration Of Words (LP)

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Cat No: ES158CD

Format Details: Deluxe Edition

Format Details: Lp

Release Date: 04 September 2020

Label: Everyone Sang

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5065001118616

Genres: Folk Singer Songwriter

Release Date: 04 September 2020

Label: Everyone Sang

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5065001118623

Genres: Folk Singer Songwriter

Release Date: 04 September 2020

Label: Everyone Sang

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5065001118630

Genres: Folk Singer Songwriter

Description
1st Single 'Return Me' is Emily's response to her progressive awareness of the threat to the environment, which awakened a need to re-invest in her own source and creativity. 'Return Me' is Barker's first solo release since her exquisite album 'A Sweet Kind Of Blue', and harks back to her signature song 'Nostalgia' (theme to BBC series Wallander). Written by Emily Barker, Solastalgia (/?s?l?'stald??/) is a neologism that describes a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change.There was a watershed moment in 2019 when the critical degree to which we've ravaged our planet broke through into public consciousness. "My immediate response was the feeling that I needed to go 'home' - I needed to be beside my family, to know they were safe, to make up for all the years I've spent away from them. I needed to be in the first landscape I ever loved: the Blackwood River (Gigellup buerle in the Noongar tongue) that runs through the deep hills of Bridgetown and past my view looking out the window of our family home in the south west of Australia. I needed to know that it too was safe. The feeling wasn't just physical, it was also temporal - 'home' meant being drawn back to my childhood: naive and splashing in the river after school on hot, summer afternoons where crickets clicked a casual tempo and life felt immortal.I started to ask myself whether or not the path I am on - the one I've been on for many years - is still the right one in light of the sombre and overwhelming revelation that our earth is very sick. Whether the journey is leading me where I want to go, whether I still have hold of the reins, whether it is time at last to return to my first home - a question that seems to have no answer, despite the number of songs I have dedicated to it".

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Deluxe Edition. A Dark Murmuration of Words contends with a modern era built on racial and gender inequality, poverty and slavery, environmental exploitation and the climate crisis, finding them all connected by the dark shadow of patriarchy, pursuits of power, and the suppression of history. "Finding meaning becomes challenging with the deafening clamour of social media in this age of fake news," she says, "but it's important to try discerning the patterns, learning to pay attention to things closer to home as well as to overwhelming global issues." Referencing Emily Dickinson's assertion that "If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves," Barker draws connections between the familial, the local, and the global: a mother sings to her unborn child, asking for its forgiveness on "Strange Weather", "Where Have The Sparrows Gone?" looks outside an apartment window and imagines a post-apocalyptic birdless London, and a monument to a Confederate general comes alive for a "how-I-got-away-with-it" confession on "Machine." Throughout A Dark Murmuration of Words, all of our choices, our unspoken prejudices, our carelessness, connect us to the whole, but becoming aware and honest on a local, personal scale, can begin to effect change, allow for healing, and tease out beauty from chaos. "Like the starlings in a murmuration, where the movement of each individual bird is related to just seven of its closest neighbours," Emily Barker says, "none of us are aware of the fluctuating shapes being created by the flock."

Description
1st Single 'Return Me' is Emily's response to her progressive awareness of the threat to the environment, which awakened a need to re-invest in her own source and creativity. 'Return Me' is Barker's first solo release since her exquisite album 'A Sweet Kind Of Blue', and harks back to her signature song 'Nostalgia' (theme to BBC series Wallander). Written by Emily Barker, Solastalgia (/?s?l?'stald??/) is a neologism that describes a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change.There was a watershed moment in 2019 when the critical degree to which we've ravaged our planet broke through into public consciousness. "My immediate response was the feeling that I needed to go 'home' - I needed to be beside my family, to know they were safe, to make up for all the years I've spent away from them. I needed to be in the first landscape I ever loved: the Blackwood River (Gigellup buerle in the Noongar tongue) that runs through the deep hills of Bridgetown and past my view looking out the window of our family home in the south west of Australia. I needed to know that it too was safe. The feeling wasn't just physical, it was also temporal - 'home' meant being drawn back to my childhood: naive and splashing in the river after school on hot, summer afternoons where crickets clicked a casual tempo and life felt immortal.I started to ask myself whether or not the path I am on - the one I've been on for many years - is still the right one in light of the sombre and overwhelming revelation that our earth is very sick. Whether the journey is leading me where I want to go, whether I still have hold of the reins, whether it is time at last to return to my first home - a question that seems to have no answer, despite the number of songs I have dedicated to it".
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