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Lost In The Cedar Wood (Lp) (Lp)

Johnny Flynn & Robert MacFarlane

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Format: LP

Cat No: TRANS541X

Format Details: Lp

Format Details: Lp

Release Date:  08 October 2021

Label:  Transgressive Records / Cold Bread

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  196006409234

Genres:  Folk  

Release Date:  08 October 2021

Label:  Transgressive Records / Cold Bread

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  196006390006

Genres:  Folk  

Release Date:  08 October 2021

Label:  Transgressive Records / Cold Bread

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  196006390570

Genres:  Folk  

  • Description

    Johnny and Robert began work on the album in the first weeks of the pandemic, wanting to make music that sang of those dangerous, disorienting spring days; when birdsong was brighter -- and the sense of bewilderment more powerful -- than any of us had known before.They drew inspiration in part from The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving work of world literature; an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia that contains the earliest version of the Flood Myth.To Johnny and Robert, Gilgamesh resonated eerily with the present moment -- and it catalysed their song-writing. For Gilgamesh is a story of friendship, love, loss, grief, bad governance and good dreaming; of natural disaster and environmental crisis. It also contains the first recorded act of human destruction of the natural world: when Gilgamesh and Enkidu travel to the Sacred Cedar Wood, slay the guardian spirit of the forest, and cut down the trees with their axes, thereby bringing catastrophe upon themselves.Johnny and Robert wrote the album between March 2020 and February 2021, during a year in which we all wandered unsure of our path, lost in the cedar wood. The songs were composed in large part as a correspondence, through a back-and-forth of notebook pages, voice-recordings and WhatsApp-messages, at a time when lockdowns made meeting in person impossible. The first eight songs were recorded in an off-grid cottage deep in a Hampshire forest, with the sounds of chainsaws felling trees drifting in through the windows along with the birdsong.The result is an album at once urgent and ancient, which fuses poetry, landscape, myth and music into something unique. These are songs that ring with hope, love and sadness -- and one need not know anything about The Epic of Gilgamesh to be touched by them.

    Description

    Johnny and Robert began work on the album in the first weeks of the pandemic, wanting to make music that sang of those dangerous, disorienting spring days; when birdsong was brighter -- and the sense of bewilderment more powerful -- than any of us had known before.They drew inspiration in part from The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving work of world literature; an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia that contains the earliest version of the Flood Myth.To Johnny and Robert, Gilgamesh resonated eerily with the present moment -- and it catalysed their song-writing. For Gilgamesh is a story of friendship, love, loss, grief, bad governance and good dreaming; of natural disaster and environmental crisis. It also contains the first recorded act of human destruction of the natural world: when Gilgamesh and Enkidu travel to the Sacred Cedar Wood, slay the guardian spirit of the forest, and cut down the trees with their axes, thereby bringing catastrophe upon themselves.Johnny and Robert wrote the album between March 2020 and February 2021, during a year in which we all wandered unsure of our path, lost in the cedar wood. The songs were composed in large part as a correspondence, through a back-and-forth of notebook pages, voice-recordings and WhatsApp-messages, at a time when lockdowns made meeting in person impossible. The first eight songs were recorded in an off-grid cottage deep in a Hampshire forest, with the sounds of chainsaws felling trees drifting in through the windows along with the birdsong.The result is an album at once urgent and ancient, which fuses poetry, landscape, myth and music into something unique. These are songs that ring with hope, love and sadness -- and one need not know anything about The Epic of Gilgamesh to be touched by them.

    Description

    Johnny and Robert began work on the album in the first weeks of the pandemic, wanting to make music that sang of those dangerous, disorienting spring days; when birdsong was brighter -- and the sense of bewilderment more powerful -- than any of us had known before.They drew inspiration in part from The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving work of world literature; an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia that contains the earliest version of the Flood Myth.To Johnny and Robert, Gilgamesh resonated eerily with the present moment -- and it catalysed their song-writing. For Gilgamesh is a story of friendship, love, loss, grief, bad governance and good dreaming; of natural disaster and environmental crisis. It also contains the first recorded act of human destruction of the natural world: when Gilgamesh and Enkidu travel to the Sacred Cedar Wood, slay the guardian spirit of the forest, and cut down the trees with their axes, thereby bringing catastrophe upon themselves.Johnny and Robert wrote the album between March 2020 and February 2021, during a year in which we all wandered unsure of our path, lost in the cedar wood. The songs were composed in large part as a correspondence, through a back-and-forth of notebook pages, voice-recordings and WhatsApp-messages, at a time when lockdowns made meeting in person impossible. The first eight songs were recorded in an off-grid cottage deep in a Hampshire forest, with the sounds of chainsaws felling trees drifting in through the windows along with the birdsong.The result is an album at once urgent and ancient, which fuses poetry, landscape, myth and music into something unique. These are songs that ring with hope, love and sadness -- and one need not know anything about The Epic of Gilgamesh to be touched by them.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ten Degrees Of Strange
      • 2. The World To Come
      • 3. Gods And Monsters
      • 4. Bonedigger
      • 5. I Can't Swim There
      • 6. Nether
      • 7. Flood In The Desert
      • 8. Tree Rings
      • 9. Enkidu Walked
      • 10. Home And Dry
      • 11. Ferryman

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Nether
      • 2. Flood In The Desert
      • 3. Tree Rings
      • 4. Enkidu Walked
      • 5. Home And Dry
      • 6. Ferryman

      Side 2

      • 1. Nether
      • 2. Flood In The Desert
      • 3. Tree Rings
      • 4. Enkidu Walked
      • 5. Home And Dry
      • 6. Ferryman

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Nether
      • 2. Flood In The Desert
      • 3. Tree Rings
      • 4. Enkidu Walked
      • 5. Home And Dry
      • 6. Ferryman

      Side 2

      • 1. Nether
      • 2. Flood In The Desert
      • 3. Tree Rings
      • 4. Enkidu Walked
      • 5. Home And Dry
      • 6. Ferryman