A poem from my collection The Long Stillness, available to buy here: http://katiemetcalfe.bigcartel.com/product/the-long-stillness

My Own

Anorexic

Arctic Fever is a spoken word/dark ambient album featuring the poetry of Katie Metcalfe intertwined with the music of Crown of Asteria. Centered around the thawing of the Arctic, Arctic Fever portrays how the catastrophic changes are impacting the peoples, flora and fauna of the far north. While the listener will have an insight into what is happening now in the north, they will also have the opportunity to envisage what life was like at the top of the world, before the Arctic was cursed with whisky, organised religion, diseases and heat. Arctic Fever is a homage to the Arctic, and all who dwell there, those who are experiencing, in real time, the sea ice lessen, the permafrost weaken and the north they have forever known disappear. 

Track List: 
Our Circle Is Contaminated 05:13 
Mother Ice Bear 02:19 
Moon Whale 01:44 
People Who Change Nature 04:30 
Inuit Teachings 02:11 
Powerful Echo 03:48 
Beluga 02:50 
Your Last Howl 03:08 
Nanuq Is Gone 03:07 
Speak Your Hurts 02:27 
This Is Not My North Anymore 03:11 
The Ice Is Dead 02:58 

Released December 21, 2017 

All words by Katie Metcalfe. 

All music by Meghan Wood.

Katie Metcalfe katiemetcalfewiting.com 

Crown Of Asteria crownofasteria.bandcamp.com

Arctic Fever

Beluga

Powerful Echo

Inuit Teachings

People Who Change Nature

Moon Whale

Mother Ice Bear

Our Circle Is Contaminated

I couldn't have created Cave Mouth without the incredible Meghan Wood of Crown of Asteria who provided the music, production and support to bring it to life.

Some background information: I was trying to get my 11 month old daughter Saga to sleep one night and I was feeling horribly depressed. I had tried Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Swedish and English for half an hour but it wasn't working, so I started stringing some lyrics together and Cave Mouth manifested. I scribbled the lyrics in my notebook and vowed to do something with them before I let myself talk myself into believing it was a waste of time and that I wasn't good enough.

The next day I recorded the lyrics, liked what I heard and thought 'this could be something.' So I sent them to Meghan before I had time to overthink things. Thank fuck she loved them and agreed to work her magic with me.

Now, I'm living in a busy house right now, and singing into a mic in the spare room while everyone else potters about and your baby is asleep in the next room isn't an ideal situation for recording music, but I did the best I could under the circumstances despite feeling a tad embarrassed in case someone said 'what's that damn racket?'

I can put my spoken word out there without batting an eyelid, but my singing is another story...so please bear with me. This is all totally new but I'm excited and looking forward to, as one of my friends said, 'training my voice to get stronger.' I want to encourage ANYONE who wants to give something a go, but doesn't think they're good enough, to just try. You might be full of a magic you never knew existed.

Cave Mouth - Demo

Lyrics and vocals: Katie Metcalfe
Music and production: Megan Wood (Crown of Asteria)

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