€25,00
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why we love this
An imaginative quest takes flight as the realm of sound merges seamlessly into a world woven with words. Filled with the profundity of awe, it carries you on a gentle current, guiding you towards uncharted realms where possibilities abound.
about the record
Music and Poetry of the Kesh is the documentation of an invented Pacific Coast peoples from a far distant time, and the soundtrack of famed science fiction author, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home. In the novel, the story of Stone Telling, a young woman of the Kesh, is woven within a larger anthropological folklore and fantasy.
The ways of the Kesh were originally presented in 1985 as a five hundred plus page book accompanied with illustrations of instruments and tools, maps, a glossary of terms, recipes, poems, an alphabet (Le Guin’s conlang, so she could write non-English lyrics), and with early editions, a cassette of “field recordings” and indigenous song. Le Guin wanted to hear the people she’d imagined; she embarked on an elaborate process with her friend Todd Barton to invoke their spirit and tradition.
- A1 - Heron Dance 2:00
- A2 - Twilight Song 1:01
- A3 - Yes – Singing 2:00
- A4 - Dragonfly Song 2:00
- A5 - A Homesick Song 2:00
- A6 - The Willows 1:40
- A7 - Lullaby – Lahela 2:00
- B1 - Long Singing 2:00
- B2 - The Quail Song 2:00
- B3 - A Teaching Poem 0:56
- B4 - A River Song 2:00
- B5 - Sun Dance Poem 1:54
- B6 - A Music Of The Eight House 2:00
€25,00
in stock
- A1 - Heron Dance 2:00
- A2 - Twilight Song 1:01
- A3 - Yes – Singing 2:00
- A4 - Dragonfly Song 2:00
- A5 - A Homesick Song 2:00
- A6 - The Willows 1:40
- A7 - Lullaby – Lahela 2:00
- B1 - Long Singing 2:00
- B2 - The Quail Song 2:00
- B3 - A Teaching Poem 0:56
- B4 - A River Song 2:00
- B5 - Sun Dance Poem 1:54
- B6 - A Music Of The Eight House 2:00
why we love this
An imaginative quest takes flight as the realm of sound merges seamlessly into a world woven with words. Filled with the profundity of awe, it carries you on a gentle current, guiding you towards uncharted realms where possibilities abound.
about the record
Music and Poetry of the Kesh is the documentation of an invented Pacific Coast peoples from a far distant time, and the soundtrack of famed science fiction author, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home. In the novel, the story of Stone Telling, a young woman of the Kesh, is woven within a larger anthropological folklore and fantasy.
The ways of the Kesh were originally presented in 1985 as a five hundred plus page book accompanied with illustrations of instruments and tools, maps, a glossary of terms, recipes, poems, an alphabet (Le Guin’s conlang, so she could write non-English lyrics), and with early editions, a cassette of “field recordings” and indigenous song. Le Guin wanted to hear the people she’d imagined; she embarked on an elaborate process with her friend Todd Barton to invoke their spirit and tradition.
