This Remembered Earth

This precious, extraordinary, beautiful Earth. How might we create songs that cause our souls to weep from the wonder and pain of this remembered Earth? We carried these title words in our pockets for years, until one day we reached a winter edge where the songs began to flow with their own unbound freedom, while we ran behind plucking lyrics and melodies out of the soft and fierce weather. This ancient, magical surprising Earth. How might we craft music that causes our dancing feet to leap as we travel the wild forgotten ways of this remembered Earth?

As ever, we have sought our inspiration on Dartmoor’s high granite hills and Scotland’s craggy granite mountains. We found magic there upon the peaks and within the river valleys. Working with a braid of three albums during Winter and Spring 2024, we wanted these songs to be a beautiful balance of layered voices and intricate melodies. We stirred many instruments into the creation journey, including hand-carved wooden flutes, whistles, fujara, koncovka, kaval, jura guitar, acoustic guitar, strum stick, piano, keyboards, frame drums, stag & stallion drum, cahon, djembe, deer toe rattle, deer bone rattle and other antlered percussion, as well as lyrics in the 4000-year-old Proto-Celtic language. We wanted this to be a hymn of honouring to the Earth, as well as a lullaby and a lament and an invocation. We hope you will soar with us above these mountain peaks and share the wonder of being a part of this remembered Earth.

TRACKS: This Remembered Earth ~ Untamed Reel ~ Uro Sâlâbenâ ~ We Are An Act Of Rebellion ~ Wild Forgotten Way ~ Men Of Granite, Men Of Feathers ~ Antlered Friend ~ One Precious Hope ~ Mossheart

so kommano ûrâ-werito
This remembered earth, her oceans, her rivers
they are singing us home
this remembered earth, her mountains, her valleys
they are bringing us home
this remembered earth, your people, your children
we are yearning for you
this remembered earth, your dreamers, your pilgrims
we’re returning to you
holy holy earth, this remembered earth
holy holy earth, our hallowed mother…
(from This Remembered Earth)

We stand firm like a forest, link together root and branch
stop our nests of moss and magic being crushed and torn apart
we listen to the stirring in our deep courageous hearts
we honour all of life: this is an act of rebellion

We hear the storm descending, feel our spirits taking flight
our trust becomes the midwife to the power we birth inside
we meet the darkness coming through the rushing floods of time
we rise up and hold the light: this is an act of rebellion

Every stand we take is rebellion
every prayer we make is rebellion
every scar we wear is rebellion
every song we share is rebellion
we are an act of rebellion
(from We Are An Act Of Rebellion)

When the forest opens to our pain
we will carry its harsh lessons in our tears
when the ocean’s washed our lives away
we’ll still be trapped on this endless road of fear
we are walking seeking yearning moving on – do you see us?
we are losing leaving weeping moving on – do you feel us
when compassion opens to our pain
we will reflect its true welcome in our tears
when the ocean’s washed our death away
we may return from this endless road of fear
we are walking seeking yearning moving on – do you see us?
we are speaking calling praying reaching you – do you hear us?
(from One Precious Hope)