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Most pleasant to have another recording from Gemma Williams, following her lovely 'Driving Down' CD on Autumn Ferment. The tape starts with her singing a magical folk song and then we are treated to field recordings of birds singing away which pushes all the right buttons for me. Then the gentle vocal re-emerges and it is as if she is singing away in some enchanted wood. Vocally we are reminded of Joanna Newsom. I like to imagine Gemma surrounded by forest creatures at this point. Hand feeding squirrels, stroking hedgehogs and such like. Limited edition of 100 hand numbered copies with download.
Sleeping Under Dark Suns is a story of sleeping women in myth. Women that sleep or go under. Women that grow mute or die. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Lilith, Eurydice, the Honeybee in winter’s dreaming time. Two ten-minute compositions, the second a collaboration with the dark and murky Talvihorros. Slumberous, somnolent, drowsy dears. Where are our women? What have they done? Out in the woods, up in the towers, down in the dungeons, we’ve been eating apples, and loving men, swooning under their stern gazes, and giving up ghosts. I wanted to find out why…
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