Sedayne : Harvest Myth 2012
The fiddle part was field recorded in a wee medieval chuch somewhere
near Dunstable on the morning of Sunday the 16th of September 2012, in
passing, on a Zoom H4; the drone part was added on the morning of
Thursday the 20th of September in the Barley Temple, Lancashire in real
time against the (mostly) unedited fiddle improvisation. The theme is
an old one - Harvest Myth - which came to me in a dream some 24 years
ago. In the dream I worked in the fields with my ancestors, and this
was the melody of their work song, which I made a recording of soon as I
woke up. It's been with me ever since, revisited some years by way of
renewal and continuity, as is the case here.
The image comes from Whipsnade Zoo, nearby, later on the 16th. I
love the colours and patterns of autumn, but the older I get I find
myself shrinking more & more from the coming darkness. This music,
poised on the equinox and anciently dreadfilled with the prospect of
winter, is but one way of dealing with it...
Sedayne : violin / shruti box / drone : ka-pro, doromb, birds, beasts, flanger, delay, overtone flute.
