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Generic Other

(29,055 posts)
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:27 PM Monday

Stargazy 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 Advent—when 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 pie—seven kinds of fish, their heads rising through the crust like small miracles.

Today, the seas are calm, but the hunger returns—the 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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Stargazy Mouth Music: A Song for the New Famine (Original Post) Generic Other Monday OP
Stargaze pie. iemitsu Monday #1
Damn this is great! LearnedHand Tuesday #2
I am the band Generic Other Tuesday #3
Wow. Color me super impressed! LearnedHand Tuesday #4
I am using a song/music generator Generic Other Tuesday #5

iemitsu

(3,890 posts)
1. Stargaze pie.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:41 PM
Monday

I love the images of stargazy pie I’ve seen but I didn’t know this history. Thanks. A wonderful video.

LearnedHand

(5,091 posts)
2. Damn this is great!
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 12:21 AM
Tuesday

Do you have links to more info about this band and this music? I can’t find much at all.

Generic Other

(29,055 posts)
3. I am the band
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 09:26 AM
Tuesday

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!
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 01:50 PM
Tuesday

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
Tue Oct 28, 2025, 05:53 PM
Tuesday

This is one of the better experiments. Thanks for your kind comments.

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