Christmas Landscapes, by Jackdaw Shivers Press

Christmas Landscapes

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1.	Project 5am, Justin Hopper, Lucy Greeves - 5am Landscape 02:52	lyrics	buy track
Christmas Landscape by Laurie Lee Tonight the wind gnaws With teeth of glass, The jackdaw shivers In caged branches of iron, The stars have talons. There is hunger in the mouth Of vole and badger, Silver agonies of breath In the nostril of the fox, Ice on the rabbit’s paw. Tonight has no moon, No food for the pilgrim; The fruit tree is bare, The rose bush a thorn And the ground is bitter with stones. But the mole sleeps, and the hedgehog Lies curled in a womb of leaves, The bean and the wheat-seed Hug their germs in the earth And the stream moves under the ice. Tonight there is no moon, But a new star opens Like a silver trumpet over the dead. Tonight in a nest of ruins The blessed babe is laid. And the fir tree warms to a bloom of candles, And the child lights his lantern, Stares at his tinselled toy; And our hearts and hearths Smoulder with live ashes. [[final stanza omitted from 5am version]] In the blood of our grief The cold earth is suckled, In our agony the womb Convulses its seed; In the first cry of anguish The child’s first breath is born.
2.	Teleplasmiste, Justin Hopper - Teleplasmiste Landscape 04:00	lyrics	buy track
Christmas Landscape by Laurie Lee Tonight the wind gnaws With teeth of glass, The jackdaw shivers In caged branches of iron, The stars have talons. There is hunger in the mouth Of vole and badger, Silver agonies of breath In the nostril of the fox, Ice on the rabbit’s paw. Tonight has no moon, No food for the pilgrim; The fruit tree is bare, The rose bush a thorn And the ground is bitter with stones. But the mole sleeps, and the hedgehog Lies curled in a womb of leaves, The bean and the wheat-seed Hug their germs in the earth And the stream moves under the ice. Tonight there is no moon, But a new star opens Like a silver trumpet over the dead. Tonight in a nest of ruins The blessed babe is laid. And the fir tree warms to a bloom of candles, And the child lights his lantern, Stares at his tinseled toy; And our hearts and hearths Smoulder with live ashes. In the blood of our grief The cold earth is suckled, In our agony the womb Convulses its seed; In the first cry of anguish The child’s first breath is born.

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Two versions - a yin and a yang - of Laurie Lee's classic poem Christmas Landscape, one with minimalist piano music from Project 5am, one with analog-synth-darkness from Teleplasmiste.

The tracks are free to listen to or download; if you do choose to pay-what-you-want for the track(s), any funds will be added to our 2022 donation to Colchester Food Bank.

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released December 20, 2018

Greeves, Kofi-Haye, Hopper, Pilkington, York.

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