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Creation Fragment

from Exotica Suite by Paul Isherwood & Wayne Burrows

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A cod sermon based on an Easter Island Creation Myth, re-imagined as a William Blake style c.18th century incantation.

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From: A Creation Fragment from Easter Island

The angry sky beats its chest, calms when it lays its hand on the round belly of the horizon, births all the berries that sustain us on our paths through the low hills.

The mother of wood is a quilt of drifting kelp who entangles her salt tendrils with a coconut shell and finds her belly fills with all the forests and trees of the world.

The tattooed cheek of the stone cliff is pressed to the open thighs of the wet sea, brings into being all the edible small plants and roots of the island.

The knots of roots above ground, the tangled nets and woven mats untouched by hands, snare the beautiful face and bright tongue of sunrise on the water to birth morning.

The silver lizard who takes her lover, the feather-grass, to a soft bed of sand, soon gives birth to the gannet, who abandons her to find a nest among white clouds at dawn.

The long tentacle of the anemone and the broken tail of a swift green fish lie together among sea-shells on the beach at noon to become parents of the crayfish tribe.

The grass takes its pleasure with a wet pond to birth the bulrush; lies later with a pigeon, as the seagull flies from their night bed to wrap its wings around a full moon.

For now the rain stands up in the ocean and comes towards us in long wet strides. For now the rain throws down its clear screens to veil all the beds of the island.

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from Exotica Suite, released July 10, 2015
Lyric & Voice: Wayne Burrows
Music: Paul Isherwood
Voice: Rebecca Lee
With: Dorian Conway & Adam Cann

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Paul Isherwood & Wayne Burrows Nottingham, UK

Paul Isherwood has released four LPs with The Soundcarriers: Harmonium & Celeste (Melodic), The Other World Of The Soundcarriers (Great Pop Supplement) and Entropicalia (Ghost Box).

Wayne Burrows' recent publications include The Holcombe Tarot (2014), Black Glass: New & Selected Poems and Exotica Suite & Other Fictions (Shoestring Press, 2015). ... more

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