...the whole of The Great Park's (from the artist himself--limited time, so act NOW)
catalogue is free for a limited time at http://thegreatpark.bandcamp.com
if you don't know his work try 2014's 'Kitchen' and backtrack to 2008's
'We could have we should have we didn't'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CntdXBKc8BQ
The Coalman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0vK3Zb ... freload=10
I Do Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDlI_c5 ... freload=10
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE, from The Wife...brilliant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV03vUoGhSo
I see searchlights see dogs on chairs, heads full of trouble needing someone to blame they say where you gonna run to where you gonna hide this time, where you gonna run to where you gonna hide this time
Well I know a safe house and it's not too far and there we can lay low while this blows past, four stone walls to wait within, one thick door to crouch behind. And it's there we can run to and it's there we can hide this time.
When I was young beneath the table or up deep in the loft my brother turned me out said you've grown too soft ,you need working on boy before I call thee mine. And I don't care where you run to, I don't care where you hide this time.
And so I head for the black hills my back feels full of shot ,an angry mess below my neck all kindness forgot, knotted muscles, stutter fuck it, stretched strained sinew whines. Where are you gonna run to, where you gonna hide this time ?
But half a mile from the paddock I see a horse up in a tree, a flayed set of legs, a thing I cannot believe, but a crow upon a matted mane and a crow upon a pony's eye.They both say where you gonna run to and where you gonna hide this time.
And the cattle here are starving and they will not feed a child, they haddle in the red barn and are frightened of the light, you'll do good to keep your head down son they crumble as I stumble by. And think about where you gonna run to, think about where you gonna hide this time
And my stitches they are mending but they're not mending fast ,they buckle in the gray skin they bite and leave a mark and they whisper to one another all along their crooked line, they say where's he gonna run to where's he gonna hide this time
Well I got me some answers but I couldn't be more wrong and every field I look into is burnt and scrubbed corn and every gate is broken and every fence just sticks and twine and I don't know where I'll run to I don't know where I'll hide this time
Well I am running from Sebastian, I am running from his wife, I am running from the Blacksmith who says he saved my life, I am running from the winter, the freight train, the lover and the liar and I am running from the fireman, the coal man and the colt, Mrs O the vicar standing on tiptoes singing her frail lungs away hallelujah glory be on high,
and I am running from superstition, from mischief and the law and her heart that couldn't beat true and the knocking at the door, I am running for the running, the doing, the going and the flight. And I am running from the cold cave the blackwater park, I am running from whatever creeped in when we left the door ajar, I am running from tinny sparrows, paper birds and dogs that bite
I am running from the palace pier the king's square and the ford, wilbury and the chapel house and the ghost of Elin Lord, the broken bottle the empty chair the wide crow black sky. I am running from the sudden storm, the cold father gone, the Englishman down in my blood and the shame and the scorn. I am running from the good book the one sure straight line.That tells me where I can run to and where I can hide this time. It tells me where I'm gonna run to and where I'm gonna hide this time.
THE GREAT PARK-Stephen Burch
''The Great Park is the music of Stephen Burch .
Stephen Burch was born in the south of England, but spent most of his early life traveling around before his family settled in rural Ireland. On their farm is an old abandoned cottage, nearly collapsed but with one room dry and warm enough to work in. It was here that he began making music under the name 'The Great Park' - with the idea of setting songs and music in a particular location of the imagination.
The first songs were written and recorded with a vintage acoustic guitar and the family's upright piano. Percussion was found in the sounds and textures of brooms, of pots and metal chains. The music grew influenced by the natural landscape and the stories and folk tradition common to southern Ireland. Images of fields, of farm houses, animals, pursuit and persecution abound - characters appear and reappear in different songs - dense journey songs - the unifying theme is that of grave drama and possiblity within 'The Great Park'.
Stephen is currently based in Berlin.''
Taken from the album '' Stitch '' (2012). For any further information please visit:
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• http://www.last.fm/music/The+Great+Park
