The Warming is a track from the 'Canada EP', due for release on January 7th.

Canada EP

The Warming

The Wild Iris / Oblivion 

Composed by Bernadette Kellermann

Inspired by the following poem by Luise Glueck:
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The Wild Iris 

At the end of my suffering 
There was a door. 

Hear my out: that which you can call death 
I remember. 

Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting. 
Then nothing. The weak sun
 Flickered over the dry surface. 

It is terrible to survive 
As consciousness 
Buried in the dark earth. 

Then it was over: that which you fear, being 
A soul and unable 
To speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth 
Bending a little. And what I took to be 
Birds darting in low shrubs. 

You who do not remember
 Passage from the other world 
I tell you I could speak again: whatever 
Returns from oblivion returns 
To find a voice: 

From the center of my life came 
A great fountain, deep blue 
Shadows on azure seawater. 
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Performed by 

Bernadette Kellermann: Violin
Ian Dunnett: Piano

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Luigi Pasquini (HowToMakeSushi Recording) @ Electric Squirrel Studios, Glasgow.

The Wild Iris / Oblivion

Begin

Composed and performed by Bernadette Kellermann

Inspired by the following poem by Brendan Kennelly:
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Begin

Begin again to the summoning birds 
To the sight of light at the window, 
Begin to the roar of the morning traffic 
All along Pembroke Road. 
Every beginning is a promise Born in light and dying in dark 
Determination and exaltation of springtime 
Flowering the way to work. Begin to the pageant of queuing girls 
The arrogant loneliness of swans in the canal 
Bridges linking the past and future
 Old friends passing though with us still. 
Begin to the loneliness that cannot end
 Since it perhaps is what makes us begin, 
Begin to wonder at unknown faces 
At crying birds in the sudden rain
 At branches stark in the willing sunlight 
At seagulls foraging for bread 
At couples sharing a sunny secret 
Alone together while making good.
 Though we live in a world that dreams of ending 
That always seems about to give in 
Something that will not acknowledge conclusion 
Insists that we forever begin. 
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Recorded, mixed and mastered by Luigi Pasquini (HowToMakeSushi Recording) @ Electric Squirrel Studios, Glasgow.

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