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Mapping

by ThrobTheorists

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1.
Ashey Down 03:39
Sea-mark, summit’s view Monochrome monumental History below
2.
Hooke's Way 03:45
Inverse square law: truth The way turns upon itself Road by river run
3.
Chale Green 02:00
Near the fatal coast The road goes on forever Hollow cup or bowl
4.
Concrete donkey sprint Duffle coated heroes run Not the good children
5.
Waters: a mirror Your limbs, naiad, hold softly We laugh, to see our love
6.
Built in a leap year Florence Balcombe’s home With secret garden
7.
Holding hands, we go Toward the point, southernmost Back of Wight ends
8.
Victorian teas Island free of rat-born plague Destiny’s encounter
9.
Rising, falling, arms Cruciform, sky battening Sweeping sentinel
10.
Which way to turn now? Sunblanched, indecisive halt Pathway, pond to dwell
11.
Appley Tower 02:03
Folly’s fort, a chess piece Poised: woodland edge and water Landscaped once; fool’s mate
12.
Your name, the flora Latin, yellow flowered gorse Ulex: sundrenched face
13.
Puckpool 03:02
Menagerie fort Whimsical, maudlin, caged ghosts Munitions dump
14.
Kite Hill 05:11
Climbing toward end Staring from the window, caught Untied at last—soar
15.
Wroxall 02:49
To Neil’s, one summer Lambent, late night, Siamese Stoned, flicker dancing
16.
The Duver 03:39
Pale blue horizon Endless the limen of sea Eternity’s beach
17.
Whale Chine 02:38
That sound, the clay, change Weather worrying, cleaving To consume your trace
18.
Riding the steep shute Bottomless: the vessel’s depth Swallow fall: the dive
19.
Shorwell 05:37
Shor well feeds Buddle Raven woods surround, enclose Thatch bristles, frost grasped
20.
Pixley Hill 03:01
Disquiet rat run Alice tracing pixie steps One hill to nowhere
21.
Lil's Layby 05:07
Forever ice cream That van, an icon, then gone That name, a fiction
22.
Sullen squat prison Empty fields, now emptied heads Nurturing no more
23.
Ghostly cricketers The Vine extends a welcome Boundary line, the bay
24.
Priory Bay 02:22
Concealed from tourists Axe heads buried in the woods Secret, sensuous
25.
High above, and arc Turn free to glide, St Catherine Calls, vertigo’s map
26.
Brading Down 03:15
Marbled white floats Chalkhill blue, escarpment scrub Blue bay horseshoe shine
27.
Arreton 02:40
Above, revenant Pale Pierrot lost in light Pellucid water
28.
Below Boniface St Lawrence and Bonchurch bound Pavilion cascade
29.
Emmet Hill 07:04
Road runs down the leaze Ancient ant way leading home Sudden curve—and gone
30.
The hill of the gods Confessor’s, cruciform Christ-transfixed lilly
31.

about

A double album, Mapping was initially conceived as a concept album negotiating the tensions and silences between personal memory and public history. Choosing thirty locations around the Isle of Wight, each holding powerfully resonant, if encrypted significance for the band members, the self-imposed remit was to write as many short numbers, but crafting each piece in a manner more suggestive of short chamber works, working between pre-ordained lines and moments of iterable improvisation.

Each song has a single verse, in form a short poem, most following the structure of a haiku (all the lyrics being available, along with other poems, as a book titled Mapping Memory & After the Ball, published by OneHand Press). The exception is the bonus track "Wool Gathering", which is an instrumental.

The poems are accessible separately, with their photographs, at the band's Flickr website.

All sales of the album, whether as the double LP download or as individual tracks, goes to Whizz-Kidz differently-abled children's charity, working hard to transform the lives of disabled children across the UK, supporting them to become confident and independent young adults.

credits

released June 3, 2014

ThrobTheorists are:

Kate Cervenka: vox, violin, viola, hardanger fiddle, accordion, melodeon, oud, oboe, flute, nyckelharpa, cello, saxophone, tabla, lute, sleigh bells, mandolin, finger cymbals, recorder, bell, ganza, sitar
Phillip Oswald: guitars
Russell Morphy Richards (aka Mystic Bass Choreographer): bass, ssab
Rob Thompson: drums, percussion
Phil Truckel: double bass
Jules Wolfreys: vox, guitars, darbuka, piano, keyboards, recorder, organ, percussion programming, Tibetan singing bowls, cowbell, finger cymbals, field recordings, ball bearings, ratiug, kick drum

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Katharina Ulex: church organ on ‘Godshill Churchyard’

Cameo appearances:

The Tea Shop, St Helens

St Helens Cricket Club

Yarmouth pier

Spring tides at Bembridge

An ice cream truck near Brading

A motorbike on Brading Down

The flora and fauna of Paradise Farm

The Geordifarian Choral Glee Club were unavailable at the time of recording (“howay man, this tune’s propa radgie! Wey aye, man, ras clat”)

What is the sound of one hand, thatching?

Guest appearance: Jacques Baudet-Concrète

All songs © Richards / Wolfreys, except:

"Salterns Road" (Richards / Ulex / Wolfreys)
"Whale Chine" (Richards / Ulex / Wolfreys)
"St Helens Green" (Richards / Truckel / Wolfreys)
"Sandown Airport" (Richards / Ulex)
"Brading Down" (Cervenka / Richards / Wolfreys)
"Arreton" (Cervenka / Richards / Truckel / Wolfreys)
"Ventnor Seafront" (Cervenka / Richards / Wolfreys)
"Emmet Hill" (Cervenka / Oswald / Richards / Truckel / Wolfreys)
"Godshill Churchyard" (Cervenka / Richards / Wolfreys)
"Woolgathering (Appledurcombe)" (Cervenka / Richards / Ulex)

Thanks to: Judy Rodrigues, Matt Wade, Melanie Seddon, Peter Hammill, James Fleming, Ruth Heholt, Heike Helmich, Fleur Cass, Kate Hext, Chris Wood, and Hugh Lupton

i.m. Steve Griffin, Tim Muncaster, Katharina Ulex, Stu Yates

Special thanks to Chris Wood for the alternative version of "Salterns Road"

All photos © Jules Wolfreys except:

Pixley Hill © Sam Richards
Carisbrooke Meadows, Hooke's Way © Russell Richards

Engineered, mix, and produced by Jules Wolfreys

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