Spell Songs: Spell Songs II: Let The Light In

Spell Songs: Spell Songs II: Let The Light In (LP)

Spell Songs II: Let The Light In

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Cat No: QRLP005

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Format Details: Lp /

Release Date: 10 December 2021

Label: Quercus Records / Thirty Tigers

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5051078990828

Genres: Folk Singer Songwriter

Release Date: 20 May 2022

Label: Quercus Records / Thirty Tigers

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 793888922112

Genres: Folk Singer Songwriter

Description
Musical Companion piece to The Lost Words and The Lost Spells books. Ensemble musicians drew inspiration from the creatures, art, and language in the critically acclaimed The Lost Words and The Lost Spells books, written by renowned author Robert McFarlane and award-winning artist Jackie Morris (Penguin Books).

"One of the other powerful things about Spell Songs, and about the Lost Words and Lost Spells books, is that they are pieces of art made with a very strong sense of ethics underpinning them and there's a political intent around drawing attention to how humans cohabit with other forms of life but the works are not polemical, they're not lectures, they're not arguments, they're not hectoring, they are kind of slower and subtler creatures, so that's a big part of the Spell Songs power" - Karine Polwart.

Each "spell" conjures an animal, bird, tree or flower - from Barn Owl to Red Fox, Grey Seal to Silver Birch, Jay to Jackdaw - with which we share our lives and landscapes. Moving, joyful and funny, The Lost Spells above all celebrates a sense of wonder, bearing witness to nature's power to amaze, console and bring joy.

Description
Spell Songs offers a musical voice to the forgotten and often endangered natural world that surrounds us. It comprises an ensemble of musicians collaborating with E.M Forster Award-winning author Robert Macfarlane and award-winning illustrator Jackie Morris; to create a listening experience that intersects music, literature, language and art, as a call to reawaken our love of the wild.

The Spell Songs ensemble includes and features Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter and Jim Molyneux - all renowned musicians in their own right. Together, their music blends a diverse array of sounds from instruments like the kora, electroharp, cello, Indian harmonium and more, which are gorgeously layered with musical and linguistic influences spanning from Orkney to Senegal.

'Spell Songs II: Let The Light In', produced and recorded by Andy Bell of Hudson Records at Real World Studios, is the follow up to the group's 2019 self-titled album, which The Guardian called "a brave and magical creation" and accompanied 'The Lost Words' and 'The Lost Spells' best-selling books, created in response to the loss of nature words from our children's everyday vocabulary.
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