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  • Postcards from Godley Moor, Spring 2021 is an 8 track album, 45 minutes long, and the last in a series of 4 seasonal releases from Alula Down.

    The album is released as digital download only accompanied by a strictly limited edition of 50 7”x5” art cards. The art card sales include a free digital download of the album.

    The collection of 8 Spring Postcards are a combination of original text and artwork and are printed on 100% recycled, uncoated 350gsm unbleached card.

    The album tracks are a collage of local field recordings, traditional & new original songs, and improvised / semi-improvised instrumentals. The album was created during the Spring of 2021, between the cross quarter days of Imbolc and Beltane. This album was preceded by Postcards from Godley Moor over Summer, Autumn and Winter 2020 - 21.


    Profits from the sale of the cards will go to Global Greengrants (www.greengrants.org/who-we-are/) supporting solutions for those whose lives are impacted by environmental harm and social injustice

    Includes unlimited streaming of Postcards from Godley Moor, Spring 2021 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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about

Original song.

With evening birdsong (2/04), nylon strung guitar, voice, Danelectro dc59, harmonium, melodica.

lyrics

Based on the story fragment “The Morning of the Empress” by Walter Benjamin. Written between 1906-12 and unpublished in his lifetime. Included in the collection The Storyteller, Verso 2016



The empress of April
Beautiful and ailing
Returned each evening
To the same sacred question

It kept her from sleeping
And on her morning walks
She asked the question
Of the orchids and cowslips

Until one evening in spring she constructed
A scale out of tin bowls, tin bowls and yarn
To examine the weight of the world
And this was her question.

credits

from Postcards from Godley Moor, Spring 2021, released June 4, 2021

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Alula Down Hereford, UK

mark waters & kate gathercole

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