Dark Summer Glimpses, by Hermione Harvestman

Dark Summer Glimpses

by Hermione Harvestman

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1.	Prelude : A Sear Autumn Glimpse in the Bramble Realm 02:57	info	buy track
2.	Raga : A Wistful Remembrance of a Late Summer Hazy Harvest Home 33:49	info	buy track
3.	Pastorale : Jennifer on Horseback 06:49	info	buy track
4.	Norturne : A Shrieking in the Trees (Glimpses of the Celestial Plough) 09:03	info	buy track
5.	Misterioso : The Nature Table (Hawthorn Berries and the Fading Blossoms of May) 16:11	info	buy track
6.	Coda : I Sowed the Seeds of Love 06:19	info	buy track

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1) PRELUDE : It begins here somehow - just a glimpse in between realms, where the seasons touch and glow in the ancestral soul of the hunter-gatherer.

2) RAGA : In my dotage, I am wistful for new beginnings which only come out of a vivid sense that the old year turns at last to death. Of course this was what it was all about anyway, and it gets more so as you get older.

3) PASTORALE : I made this music for Jennifer's 21st birthday in 1984 by way of romantic remembrance of those misty morning glimpses circa '75/77 when she was happy to be a vision cantering on the fells without a care in the world.

4) NOCTURNE : This particular night I was walking home from a friends, through the woods, and looked up to the sound of an owl, a shrieking in the trees, to see The Plough there, fleeting midst the treetops and the clouds. I stood a moment arrested in dread awe; this music is that moment magnified.

5) MISTERIOSO : It is on the Nature Table I place newly gathered hawthorn berries alongside the fading blossoms of May - a dialogue of being and becoming which inspires a darker wonder as the year turns ever and onward.

6) CODA : This is not, of course, folk music (no matter how vague the proscriptions of the 1954 Definition) rather freely improvised electronica touched by a melody from 81 years earlier that wasn't sung as folk music either. Dedicated to Mr John England, who in all probability couldn't have cared less.

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released August 22, 2014

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Hermione Harvestman UK

'I feel like Wainwright - we are both hermetic ramblers. He made his books for when he was no longer capable of rambling his beloved fells, and I made my music for when I'm no longer able to ramble the by-ways of Albion - but only to listen, and think "Was that really me? That solitary figure who stood in a landscape dreaming of ages past in dread fear of the future."

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