13-track, CD album. Comes in a card, laminated gatefold sleeve with track-detail insert. It has a running time of approximately 47mins.
"It certainly doesn't disappoint" Andrew Young - Terrascope
"this is not traditional folk music, but then neither is it modern folk music, nor prog, nor ambient (nor any other labelled genre). That said, given the different emphases in each track, there are aspects of each. In many ways, though, it could be said that the album is more traditional than most folk music" - Mike Wistow folking.com
A New Broom Sweeps Clean!
DUIR release a re-imagining of their ‘classic’ 2007 album. Remastered by COMPUTER coalwood, 'The Stout Guardian of the Door’ has received a spring clean and its re-release adds further weight to the expanding DUIR catalogue.
Originally started in the autumn of November 2003, shortly after the release of 'A Giant' by The Sons of T.C.-Lethbridge. Stout Guardian was based upon observations made on fieldtrips to places of interest in Lincolnshire. The recordings take the form of a journey from Terry Welbourn's birthplace in Grantham, north; along the limestone escarpment known as the Lincoln Edge, to the River Humber.
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A walking song. A journey along the Lincoln Cliff Edge powered by Doggen's strolling bass-line
lyrics
Under heavy skies, I walk west along Green Man Lane to the village of Navenby. I leave behind the unrelenting Ermine Street and walk on to the winding, un-romanised road, that follows the cliff edge, a path known as the Jurassic Way.
I pause on my journey at the church of St. Andrew at Boothby Graffoe for here, the sweeping views across the Trent flood plain, are truly breathtaking on this dramatic day. As I observe fast moving clouds skiding above the Trent basin, I am convinced that this Christian shrine, once replaced a Neolithic long-barrow, that, in true Lincolnshire style, was positioned on the slopes below the summit of this limestone ridge.
The cliff path leads me on to one of my favourite places, high above the South Common where the river Witham can be observed running through a gap in the limestone cliff on its journey east to the sea. A sacred pool, now known as The Brayford, was formed when the Witham, hitting the northern bank of the cliff, was forced east to eventually flow out into the flat lands and beyond to The Wash. The first settlements were established around this pool, which is now central to the hub of learning in this expanding city once known as Linden - the people of the pool.
But it is from here on the southern bank of the Lincoln Gap that I stare out across the Witham flood plain over to the magnificent Norman cathedral, set high on the northern bank. The cathedral is not, as many believe, sited on the highest point of the ridge, for this unique spot is accredited to a Norman motte, situated yards to the west, set within the walls of Lincoln Castle.
Since my visit to Maiden Bower – a motte and bailey castle in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, I have been convinced that Norman mottes may have a more ancient origin. A sacred mound accommodated and adapted by a later culture for a secular activity. Without the obstruction of the castle walls, this magnificent mound would have been visible to northbound travellers as they reached the Lincoln Gap.
The Gap was a portal to the great eastern marshlands and its presence for the northbound traveller, was an obstacle to breech before they could continue their journey north along the Jurassic Way. In the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, great timber causeways would have existed spanning this great divide. Evidence of one of these remarkable feats of engineering has been unearthed below the village of Fiskerton on the northern bank. Dendro-chrono-logical analysis has been produced, that suggests that the felling of trees used in the construction of the causeway was coincidental with mid-winter lunar eclipses. This reveals to us that the Fiskerton causeway was much more than a functional bridge.
I am agog at the splendour of the settlement that is now my home. I visit this vantage point daily and witness this breathtaking view in different lights and weather conditions and create in my mind’s eye, an imaginary time-lapse film that traces the steady growth of this city from the early prehistoric camps by the Brayford Pool up to the sprawling city that I witness here today. How many have stood on this ridge and thought the same? How many will stand and contemplate the future.?
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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