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Men I Trust - Girl

Taken from Rachel's new album 'Changeling' out September 2014. Pre-order now at www.rachelnewtonmusic.com

Recorded by Mattie Foulds at MWAH, Heriot Toun. Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios. 

This track features Lauren MacColl on fiddle, Su-a Lee on cello and Mattie Foulds on percussion

Queen of Elfan's Nourice

01 Soundboards and Sockets 1

Pattern Damage

Forest Spirit (feat. Darkmarik)

Chances

Interlude

Midnight (feat. MUN SING)

Intro

False 02

Selfsame 04

Selfsame 02

Selfsame 01

Selfsame 04b

Selfsame 03

Hymnal

Oracle

Sunwise

A' Chailleach

Instant Holograms On Metal Film

Esemplastic Creeping Eruption

The Year of The Radical Romantics

Carbon Dioxide (Radical Romantics Session)

Now's The Only Time I Know

Now's The Only Time I Know (Therapy Session)

If I Had A Heart (Radical Romantics Session)

classic love

Classic Love (ep)

slow talkers '22

The Collection: The Best of the Early Years

Another Great Divide

Slow Dazzle

Heartbreak Hotel

Silent Shout

Marble House

Saudade

From Rachel's latest album Here's My Heart Come Take It. Released April 2016 on Shadowside Records. 

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Here's My Heart Come Take It Master

Gura Mise Tha Fo Mhulad

Promise Of Love

Hard to Find

VSQ Performs The Cure: Whisper

Boys Don't Cry

From the new album "A Dark Murmuration of Words" - https://smarturl.it/eb-words

Solastalgia (/ˌsɒləˈstældʒə/) is a neologism that describes a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change.

There was a watershed moment in 2019 when the critical degree to which we’ve ravaged our planet broke through into public consciousness. My immediate response was the feeling that I needed to go ‘home’ – I needed to be beside my family, to know they were safe, to make up for all the years I’ve spent away from them. I needed to be in the first landscape I ever loved: the Blackwood River (Gigellup buerle in the Noongar tongue) that runs through the deep hills of Bridgetown and past my view looking out the window of our family home in the south west of Australia. I needed to know that it too was safe.

The feeling wasn’t just physical, it was also temporal – ‘home’ meant being drawn back to my childhood: naïve and splashing in the river after school on hot, summer afternoons where crickets clicked a casual tempo and life felt immortal.

I started to ask myself whether or not the path I am on – the one I’ve been on for many years – is still the right one in light of the sombre and overwhelming revelation that our earth is very sick. Whether the journey is leading me where I want to go, whether I still have hold of the reins, whether it is time at last to return to my first home – a question that seems to have no answer, despite the number of songs I have dedicated to it.

A Dark Murmuration of Words

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Return Me

From the new album "A Dark Murmuration of Words" - https://smarturl.it/eb-words

“Whatever it is, if it’s affecting the sparrows, is it doing us any good? I think of the miner’s canary.” Dr Denis Summers-Smith

There are sparrows in the eaves above my bedroom window in Stroud, Gloucestershire. The window has a view above our tiny terrace garden and stretches out over one of the five valleys. In the mornings I enjoy sitting in the window bench seat, watching the sparrows dart from the eaves above me to the seed balls below. They are a common bird in this old part of town where the walls are made of Cotswold stone and the roofs of slate tiles – allowing for plenty of nesting places unlike newer, more sealed-up builds.

The song title came from some words I saw on an environmental campaign poster. It called to mind an old folk song by Pete Seeger ‘Where Have all the Flowers Gone?’ but also got me wondering if, despite the abundance of sparrows in my own town, their numbers were actually diminishing. I looked into it and found that over the last few decades the sparrow has gone from being one of the world’s most common and widespread birds to being Red Listed as a species of high conservation concern – in the UK alone, numbers in rural areas  have halved since the 1970s, whilst in towns and cities they have declined by 60%.

My thoughts returned to the sparrows outside my window - how sad it would be to look out and not see and hear their vibrant movement and chatter. I hope that day never comes.

'Where Have The Sparrows Gone?' is set in an apocalyptic future London, where sparrows were once as common as pigeons, and follows a mother and daughter as they flee the capital, now devoid of sparrows and the trees that were once their home.

Where Have The Sparrows Gone

Mona Bone Jakon

Lady D'Arbanville (Remastered 2020)

A' Chailleach

Brighde Chaimbeul