CD in Risograph printed, handmade cover.
200 numbered copies.
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Download available at: https://jetsamsound.bandcamp.com/
Walthamstow-based
group Jetsam are an eclectic contemporary ensemble who create and
perform original and commissioned works as well as contemporary
repertoire.
In
2012 they teamed up with author Gareth E. Rees for a collaborative
project inspired by his blog The
Marshman Chronicles and,
in particular, his short story
‘A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes’.
In
Rees’s work, the Lea Marshes are a fragmented world which disrupt
the walker’s sense of linear time. The landscape is an unsettling
mix of ancient wetland, overgrown Victorian ruins, wild flower
meadows, pylons, railway sidings and reservoirs. Kestrels hover over
grazing rare breed cattle. Shopping trolleys are sucked into the
river bank. A heron stands in a flooded World War II bomb crater.
All of this framed by London’s skyscraper skyline and the stadia of
the Olympic Park. This inner city wilderness tells a story about
London’s past, but it also suggests a future after mankind has
gone, when wild nature bursts through the cracks in the city to
reclaim it as their own.
In
a ‘A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes’. Jetsam’s atmospheric
orchestration, and Rees’s spoken word take you on a journey
through this troubled dreamscape.
The
album has been beautifully recorded at the Music Studios of The
University of Hudderfield, it will be limited to 200 numbered copies
in a Risograph printed handmade CD case designed by illustrator
Frances Castle.
Gareths
E. Rees' book Marshland:
Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London, will be published
by Hackney-based Influx Press
in November.
