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A Desolation

by Clive-Upon-Sea

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1.
"you play your cards like the lucky one"
2.
Heartwood 04:01
an advent hymn, of sorts
3.
"o the birds sing in sorrow/ o the birds sing in sorrow/ o the birds sing in sorrow/ in my lovely, lovely house"
4.
Sea-watching 04:22
Grey waters, vast as an area of prayer that one enters. Daily, over a period of years I have let the eye rest on them. Was I waiting for something? Nothing but that continuous waving that is without meaning occurred. Ah, but a rare bird is rare. It is when one is not looking, at times one is not there that it comes. You must wear your eyes out, as others their knees. I became the hermit of the rocks habited with the wind and the mist. There were days, so beautiful the emptiness it might have filled, its absence was as its presence; not to be told any more, so single my mind after its long fast, my watching from praying. Sea-watching, R.S.Thomas
5.
Evaporates 03:57
"and its one for sorrow/ two for sorrow/ three for sorrow/ four for sorrow/ five for sorrow/ six for sorrow/ seven for sorrow/ eight for sorrow/ nine for sorrow/ten for sorrow/ eleven for sorrow/ twelve for sorrow"
6.
"in glasswater woods/ in glasswater woods"
7.
“Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies -“ #373, Emily Dickinson
8.
"...And maybe make an image of my wandering, a little image-shrine by the roadside to signify to traveler that I live here in the wilderness awake and at home." Allen Ginsberg

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"Now mind is clear
as a cloudless sky.
Time then to make a
home in wilderness...."

credits

released March 21, 2024

CLIVE-UPON-SEA is:
S Oliver - vocals, guitar, piano

with:
Dave Bradley - guitar, bass, synths, vocals
Dave Oliffe - drums, bass, synths, vocals, handclaps, woops and hollers

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY S OLIVER
ARRANGED BY SO, DB, DO

Except track 3: written by Wren Oliver, Arranged by DO.

Recorded at various locations at the edges of the cambridgeshire fens and the irish sea.

Initial recording by DB @ Sciencebase Studios

Additional recording by DO @ Giant Audio

Mixing, Mastering, Production by DO @ Giant Audio

Management/ Bookings: Ian Morgidge @ Best Kept Medium Town

Endless gratitude to My Two Daves aka Daves Of Thunder aka The Best Daves Of Our Lives aka Two Dave is gonna be the Dave that he's gonna throw it back to you aka etc

For
K, C, J & W


"...And maybe make an image
of my wandering, a little
image-shrine by the
roadside to signify
to traveler that I live
here in the wilderness
awake and at home."

A Ginsberg

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