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
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about
Original song.
Sounds include evening birds & sheep on Godley Moor (20/02), with double bass & voice.
lyrics
On Imbolc - the 1st February 2021 - the sun was warm, and it seems the Cailleach was out gathering wood, plenty, for the long cold days that lay ahead to May and Beltane.
The sun through the trees, warming the ground,
She’s gathering wood into her arms,
And as she bends down she finds the warmth
On her back feels good, old friend long gone…
As deer roam, no wolf to fear
These things that she once held tightly
Slip through her fingers
Fall from her hands.
Storm gathering now, cold wind and rain.
Earth runs down the lane into the town
The sandbags piled up again
We wade through floods we have conjured,
Carelessly making,
Fall from our hands.