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Where Two Rivers Meet

from The Stout Guardian Of The Door (Remastered) by Duir!

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    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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The turf-cut labyrinth at Alkborough is known as Julian Bower. Below this spiral path, the Rivers Trent and Ouse meet to form the great Humber. This is a very special place.

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Freshly cut grass.
I bathe in the warmth of an infant April sun
where an ancients' hand once cut deep this spiral path.

I gaze out, far beyond this grassy ridge and out across fertile marsh
where treasure lies buried deep beneath this silted land.
Touched by this gentle sun, I smile
for it is here that two great rivers meet.

Beyond, the coloured fields form a giant patchwork,
stretched taught, blanketing the gentle, curving Earth.
And in the clear, blue sky above, silent forces work:
changing, pulling and influencing this land.

If I let go of all that I know, I too can become a part
And feel the gentle, covert energies that influence our lives.
A place where words are just useless tools.
Drifting clouds cast fleeting shadows across the ridge
and here I await the perfect light - one that will illuminate the path.

Like those Trojan thieves who laid claim to our spoils
they leave us cold under their dark shadow.
A wave released by a spring moon
will wash away these roman claims of wealth and greed.
Washed clean again - erect and true that mirrors an ancient's hand,
that points to a place, where the two great rivers meet.

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from The Stout Guardian Of The Door (Remastered), released April 20, 2020
Music and Words by Brighton/Welbourn

KEVLAR bales: Drums
TEMPLAR Brighton: Guitar
DOGGEN foster: Bass
welbourn TEKH: Spoken Word

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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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