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Goose Barnacle Goose

from Dabbin​/​Goose Barnacle Goose by nigtjrrs

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The first two tracks by nightjrrs now in vinyl
    First aired at Frieraum

    Andy Hopkins: sonics, electric guitar, spoken word
    Nicola Reed: Keyboard
    John Chambers: Acoustic guitar

    Released by Matchbox Classics MC11
    Recorded by Lee Shackley in Whitehaven
    Mastered at Heavy Rain Sound Studios by Andris Kiss
    This is where it began

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about

A fanciful, widespread view during the middle ages was that barnacle geese came from the goose barnacle. The two are strikingly similar in colour and appearance. In this piece the movement from one to the other (and back) is played out. The barnacle goose gathers in huge numbers on the Solway, Cumbria. The piece is as much an examination of the power of transformation in the human imagination, rather than the reality. Something more akin to a cave painting than a scientific account. The piece starts with the 'Goose Theme' - a violent start dominated by cymbals and dissonance, mirroring the start to life of the barnacle goose (in reality - as well as myth). Then the scene shifts in 'Inimical' with field recordings of rooks and other corvids, over which there is some spoken word and a portrayal of threat. We stay on the Solway for the third part 'Plewit', which moves into 'Where Geese Go', which kickstarts the 'flight' section of the piece. 'Ghost Goose' reprises the theme, whilst building up banks of feedback which shift and change through the arpeggios of 'Red Beacons' then 'fsa1' and 'fas2', in which keys complete the journey and transformation.

lyrics

lyrics
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Inimical'

over / / over / / by turns of night // over the red beacons //
goose / / barnacle / / goose //
from rock pool / / to ditch pool // back //

they do not dream of you / / in their strata //
moon cloaked / / deep croak / / penetrating stone and mortar // penetrating dream //
bring with them winters / / their geologies / / their oneiric kin / /

they transform / /


'fsa2'

they transform / /
translated wanderers / /
over the red beacons / /

like geese / /

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from Dabbin​/​Goose Barnacle Goose, released July 14, 2021
Andy Hopkins Guitars and Vocals
Nicola Reed Keyboard
John Chambers Acoustic Guitar

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nightjrrs Carlisle, UK

Nicci Reed: Keyboards and vocals
Andy Hopkins: Guitars, sonics, loops and vocals
John Chambers: Guitars and vocals


nightjrrs create music through complex layering of sound, music spoken word, found sound and song. The material often relates to the environment, time and place in a post industrial world. ... more

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