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Icehouse Blues

from Drome by Duir!

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    "Few of us can see the world from the planets AND in its atoms; it demands a perspective that can see both the detail and the breadth, see both the history and the present, see both the reality of the world and also its supernatural echoes around us. ...Duir! are the only artists I can think of who do it so well in music and words."
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A map dated 1905 reveals that there were once two icehouses in the cliff-edge village of Leadenham. Imagine a search party of yore that can only operate during the hours of darkness. Their nocturnal quest reveals that there are flaws in our comprehension of time and therefore, their search for their lost ones operates only in multi-dimensional space. Were the icehouses portals to other dimensions? It is likely, for on the heath there appears to be no fixed universal scale.

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We heard their voices, but they were nowhere to be seen
Our patrol is searching for the lost ones of the heath
But this is no ordinary, three-dimensional hunt, for those that we seek; are lost in time
For out here, on this starless night there appears to be no fixed universal scale.
I thought I heard their voices, over by the Leadenham icehouse; but I was mistaken
The night can play strange tricks with sound; especially up here on the blasted heath
We pursue a hunch, and drop down the tangled embankment onto the old railway track
I hear the sound of an approaching engine, but no trains have run on this line for over fifty. years
I contemplate on the speed of sound and ponder on the life-span of this industrial resonance
Am I really hearing ghosts? Or maybe, it’s just another trick of the night
But I must not be distracted from my heathen quest. After all, time is not on my side.
We thought we’d made a breakthrough, over by the old Stone Pit Plantation
But we mistook a burning pile of rags, dumped beside the guide stone, for a campfire
It is an easy mistake to make especially when our quest is constantly being hindered by modern-day misconceptions of space and time
We know however, that our quarry is close by. For even the lost, seldom venture far
Hidden in plain-sight, we can sometimes hear their laughter, even on dark, dank nights like these.
The sun is about to rise, so we must abandon our quest and return to our barracks - concealed beneath the escarpment known as the Lincoln Edge
It is a Jurassic way that leads to no good
But it is the only path we know and tomorrow night we will continue our search -
until our lost ones are safely back within the fold.

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from Drome, released September 20, 2021
Words and Music by Terry Welbourn

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Duir! Nottingham, UK

DUIR! is a musical collective based in the East Midlands, UK that utilise spoken word, music and song to bring alive the folk memories of Lincolnshire and its environs. Their inspiration stems from myths, legends, folk-tales and topographic features of this rural country.
DUIR! comprise of, Simon Brighton, Stephen Coalwood and Terry Welbourn.

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