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Green Man γ - Cadney All Saints

by Temple Music

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Green Man γ - Cadney All Saints 45:05
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All in, all in a Day The circled Sun The sightless Sky And whispered voices Here are, here are the Hours All placed in line Down echoed Years And whispered voices

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This album is part of a series of seven long pieces inspired and informed by different Green Man locations in the county of Lincolnshire, England; This volume is based upon a lonely and tree-encircled location, the air tumbling with the black tatters of rooks - the once important All Saints church of Cadney. Cadney sits in the wide clay valley of the river Ancholme a couple of miles south of the town of Brigg (named after the bridge across the river). The suffix 'ey gives some clue to the history of the area, meaning 'isle', and before the drainage schemes and the channeling of the Ancholme, this was indeed an island in the midst of fresh and salt water marshes and was ceded (under the name Ruckholme) to St. Gilbert, the founder of the Gilbertine Order, some time in the twelfth century. Here he built Newsteads Priory, where he lived until his death in 1189.
Based closely on the Cistercian Order, the Gilbertine rule was austere and based on manual labour - mostly farming. The son of a Norman baron and an Englishwoman, Gilbert was ideally placed to bridge the cultural gap, and here on the island in the darkness of the marshes between Lincoln Edge and the Wolds, in the Norman church of All Saints, he could hardly have failed to notice the pagan survival that watched over the congregation; the Green Man. Modern Cadney is peaceful (if not entirely somnolent); the priory now a farm; the Ancholme now slow flowing and calmly channelled under the vastness of the arching sky. Here the past seems distant, unfocussed; the present hardlyhere at all, the landscape dreaming under the cloth of fields and woods. Although the work of Gilbert - and almost the memory of him - are nearly erased by Time, the Green Man watches on.
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released October 23, 2016

Tracy Jeffery - Voice
Stephen Robinson - Bass, String Machine, Synths, Lapp Framme Drum, Cithara
Alan Trench - Guitars, Tibetan Bells, Sequencer, Synths, Lyre, Whistles, Mongolian One String Fiddle, Treatments

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Temple Music Lincoln, UK

Temple Music was started in 1995 as an offshoot of the English dark folk band ORCHIS and their interest in ancient Greek modal music, drone, magical trance states and krautrock. The permanent members are Alan Trench and Steve Robinson; creating shifting walls of noise; moments of arctic intensity; unsettling;demanding attention ... rhythm and chaos combined... ... more

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