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Steerage 12:16
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Idle Sharks 11:03
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Scattershot 08:44
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In sea-cold Lyonesse, When the Sabbath eve shafts down On the roofs, walls, belfries Of the foundered town, The Nereids pluck their lyres Where the green translucency beats, And with motionless eyes at gaze Make minstrelsy in the streets. And the ocean water stirs In salt-worn casemate and porch. Plies the blunt-snouted fish With fire in his skull for torch. And the ringing wires resound; And the uneiarthly lovely weep, In lament of the music they make In the sullen courts of sleep: Whose marble flowers bloom for aye: And—lapped by the moon-guiled tide— Mock their carver with heart of stone, Caged in his stone-ribbed side.

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Track 2 featuring Matthew Grigg (guitar)
Track 4 featuring Harry Furniss (cornet)
Track 6 featuring Ellen Southern (voice)

A (loose) concept album based around the myth of Lyonesse (also referred to as Lethesowe), a kingdom which, according to legend, consisted of a long strand of land stretching from Land's End at the southwestern tip of Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly. It was lost after being swallowed by the ocean in a single night. Lyonesse's most significant feature was a castle-like cathedral that was built on top of what is now the Seven Stones Reef, and it is said that the tolling of the bell can still be heard from beneath the waves as the sun sets on the offing.

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released September 20, 2022

Tracks 1,3,5 written and performed by Andrew Cooke.

Track 2 written by Andrew Cooke & Matthew Grigg
Track 4 written by Andrew Cooke & Harry Furniss
Track 6 written by Andrew Cooke & Ellen Southern

All tracks mixed and mastered by Andrew Cooke

Track 2 and 4 recorded at Jutebox Studio, Bristol, UK with Thomas Bryan

Album artwork by Ellen Southern

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SALTINGS Bristol, UK

SALTINGS is a pastoral-horror-soundscape project, founded by Irish-born composer Andrew Cooke. Working by himself or collaborating with others, Andrew draws on the unsettling literary influences of authors like M.R. James and W.G. Sebald to tentatively create audio-worlds of controlled darkness; hushed plateaux of eerie tranquility and black horizons full of whispering, half-dreamed creatures... ... more

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