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'Songs for the Trees' with Kate Daisy Grant
Special pre-release edition
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'Songs for the Trees' with Kate Daisy Grant
Special pre-release edition
by Kate Daisy Grant & Nick Pynn
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An album of original songs and instrumentals inspired by, and for, the trees of the Ogham (Druidic) calendar.
The album will be officially released in 2025.
In Welsh, there is a word 'hiraeth' that can be translated to mean 'a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past'. These songs are reaching back into our collective memory, the green folklore and spiritual dependency on trees - using our living minds to contact the old ones, and to hear the whispers from the bones.
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13 tracks featuring some lavish arrangements witk Kate on vocals, piano, cello and autoharp, and Nick on fiddles, violas, mandocello, dulcimer, oud, tiple, mandolin and guitars. Jim Mortimore guests on double bass, Martyn Barker on drums and percussion, and Philippe Barnes on flute.
'Songs from the Trees' can be ordered as download or Limited Edition CD from Bandcamp