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Causeway

from Drome by Duir!

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    13-track, single CD album. Comes in a card, laminated gatefold sleeve with artwork by celebrated photographer Andrew. The CD comes with track-detail insert and has a running time of approximately 46mins.

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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 tight, compact blast of glam-folk with post-punk attitude. DROME reveals a topsy-turvy journey through Lincolnshire tradition, told through spoken word and song and where fact and fantasy become embroiled in time-shifting theatre.
    Put aside the disquiet of the present and allow yourself to be briefly distracted and indulge with them on a journey through a timeless landscape where fact and fantasy become intrinsically linked. Through their endeavours DUIR have, in effect, sought to create their own, timeless DROME.

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The Iron Age tribes that inhabited the land to the east of the Lincoln Gap once built a giant, wooden causeway that spanned the river Witham. Dendrochronologists suggest that the timbers used were felled during lunar eclipses. This suggests that the causeway was much more than a functional bridge.

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A lazy river in winter flood, sluices through still water pools of wonder
And the fingers of a wooden platform, reach out into shallow flow
Trapped amongst the swaying reeds, a votive glint reveals itself - A gift
The pollen of a bygone time, captured in soil horizons of yore is cast downstream
Where eagle-eyed mud-larks, trample through the silted pastures of shallow men.

Amidst a stew of animal bone and pot shards, splinters of oak and willow.
Fragments from ancient boats become trapped in tertiary trenches, carved - in lazy river flow
For there were those that came to dredge and those that chose to dunk – and those that passed over the brushwood path and simply left no trace.
Along the northern bank, ‘marsh forts’ preside over ancient, alder wetlands and beyond...
The Car Dyke.

The short ferry disturbs the reeds and ancient, liminal structures creek beneath the peaty wash
And as I wander through a land of lithic scatter, I am lost in an upstream world of peak and flow – a wetland, awash with wonder.

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from Drome, released September 20, 2021
Music by Steven Bothamley
Words 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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