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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine
Stargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine
This piece falls on the hinge between Halloween and Adventwhen ghosts still walk, and hunger waits for the promised feast. The veil thins, the cupboards echo, and the songs we sing are half prayer, half warning.
A modern echo of the Cornish legend of Tom Bawcock, who once braved a winter storm and brought back enough fish to feed his starving village. The proof was baked into a single pieseven kinds of fish, their heads rising through the crust like small miracles.
Today, the seas are calm, but the hunger returnsthe nets are full, but many go unfed. SNAP cuts, rising costs, and quiet cruelty have brought waves of misery crashing on the beach.
They said no drums. So we sang with our mouths.
This film remembers an earlier feast of survival in another age of famine.
"The fish are singing through holes in the sky."
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iemitsu
(3,890 posts)1. Stargaze pie.
I love the images of stargazy pie Ive seen but I didnt know this history. Thanks. A wonderful video.
LearnedHand
(5,091 posts)2. Damn this is great!
Do you have links to more info about this band and this music? I cant find much at all.
Generic Other
(29,055 posts)3. I am the band
Thanks for your comments. I was playing with a style known as Scottish mouth music.
LearnedHand
(5,091 posts)4. Wow. Color me super impressed!
I really love the ethereal sound of this track. Is your music on streaming services?
Generic Other
(29,055 posts)5. I am using a song/music generator
This is one of the better experiments. Thanks for your kind comments.