MUSIC & POETRY OF THE KESH by URSULA K LE GUIN / TODD BARTON
| SKU | 102997 |
| Artist | URSULA K LE GUIN / TODD BARTON |
| Title | MUSIC & POETRY OF THE KESH |
| Label | FREEDOM TO SPEND |
| Catalog # | FTS 9LP |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 13 - 2018 |
| Format | Vinyl - USLP |
| € 23,99 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Heron Dance
- Twilight Song
- Yes-Singing
- Dragonfly Song
- A Homesick Song
- The Willows
- Lullaby-Lahela
- Long Singing
- The Quail Song
- A Teaching Poem
- A River Song
- Sun Dance Poem
- A Music Of The Eighth House
Description
Deluxe spot printed jacket with illustrations from the book Always Coming Home, a facsimile of the original lyric sheet, liner notes by Moe Bowstern, a download code and a limited edition letterpressed bookmark. Edition of 1000 copies.
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.
