May Eve (1976), by Hermione Harvestman

May Eve (1976)

by Hermione Harvestman

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1.	May Eve - Part One 19:03	buy track
2.	May Eve - Part Two 18:15	buy track
3.	May Eve - Part Three 17:34	buy track
4.	May Eve - Part Four (Coda). 09:33	buy track

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May Eve came to me whilst out for a stroll on the evening of Friday April 30th 1976 when I had a notion to do a piece as a programmatic reflection of the countryside around my home and the joy I feel in being part of that landscape and the Genius Locii.

My idea was to record two 20-minute sequences, the second carrying on from the first, reincorporating several of the elements / loops & sequences established in the initial improvisation. This is what I eventually did, but after recording Part One, the tape ran out half way through Part Two, so I began the piece afresh.

What you have here is the new Part One and Part Two sequential improvisations, together with the old Part One, as Part Three, and the fragment of the initial Part Two as Part Four, by way of a coda. The four pieces are part of the same concept, organically different though carrying essentially the same DNA.

The concept notwithstanding, the music was all improvised as a sequence of happy wandering in real time evolving as a ceremonial aspect of wider cosmological process, as all such wandering must - communion, prayer and a reflective jubilation at the perfect joy of simply being alive.

Hermione Harvestman.

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released April 30, 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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