OLD
SILVERHEAD - Songs and Initiations of
Womanhood
Carolyn Hillyer
Rites
of passage, initiations and celebrations serve to concentrate
and value growth and changes in our lives; give our journey
different meanings; build a vision of the whole. As women
we mark the passing of time through transformations on our
bodies, with the flow and ebb of bleeding, the shape - shifting
of face and womb and breast. We travel on unfamiliar territories
of mind and mood. And as we see those who have walked this
way before us, so we also watch those that follow on behind.
The Women's House exists inside the spirit of our gatherings,
a place of the imagination and the heart, as physical as
we choose to make it. The Women's House holds the remembered
voices of our foremothers, ancient as the land, our common
bonds as women and our universal prayers. Within the House,
held by the circle or the spiral or the line, we speak alone
or within our group voice, we sing and chant and dance and
drum.
In this, her fourth solo album, Carolyn has sought a route
to the core of the experiences and transitions that define
our passage through womanhood. It is a journey of ritual
and song, sixteen pieces of music that travel from the tender
unveiling of GIRLSEED, through the dangerous lands of MIDWOMAN,
towards the culmination of wise knowing and unpredictability
of OLD SILVERHEAD herself. Many of the songs and chants
are created for singing with others, for threading into
group music, for dancing in circles. Carolyn uses her familiar
blend of earthly and unearthly in her exploration of woman's
shamanic heart.
Total album duration 76 minutes.
Old Silverhead is available on CD for £13
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