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Spirit of Place by Ian Blake
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fave it Ambient | World Fusion
8 tracks | 46 minutes
Released Sep 2006
on Ian Blake
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:59 The Old Road lyrics FREE 02:59 The Old Road lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:59 The Old Road
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:00 Ffynnon Fair lyrics BUY MP3 02:00 Ffynnon Fair lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:00 Ffynnon Fair
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:57 Ynys Enlli lyrics BUY MP3 02:57 Ynys Enlli lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:57 Ynys Enlli
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:03 Rollright lyrics BUY MP3 06:03 Rollright lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:03 Rollright
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 13:29 Out of the West lyrics BUY MP3 13:29 Out of the West lyrics "GIFT MP3" 13:29 Out of the West
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From sacred sites to suburbia, here's a trip down the Old Road: exotic instruments, sonic sculpture, landscape as soundscape from Albion to Australia.
Bio / Background
It's this CD's tenth birthday - a baby no longer! It's been released into the wild again, and I think it's worn well. Have a listen - the themes are landscape and that odd sense of sentience we call spirit of place.
You'll hear a host of sounds organic and electrical on this album, including lyre, fujara, bass clarinet, hot fountain pen, melodica, soprano sax, distressed banjo, cittern, and a collection of now-vintage synths and samplers...
Plus a guest appearance from my favourite local artistes: the frogs of Ginninderra Creek.
As Nick Beale said in an fRoots review, this is 'multi-faceted and highly inventive music...' .
Here's a quick tour of the CD: start with a pilgrim's path to the tip of North Wales and a drink from the well at Ffynnon Fair before the short voyage to Ynys Enlli, the island burial place of twenty thousand saints. Out in a small boat at evening, it looms like a sleeping dragon over there in the West. Do not disturb...
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