Name: The Bane Tree by Thefieldbazaar
Duration: 4 min 29 s
Description: Originally released on the cult `(episodes from) The Field Bazaar' album of the same name and recently featured on The First Active Listeners Acid Folk Sampler.

@salem-1976: thank you very much - I am glad you not only appreciated it but that it raised a chuckle (was that for the final sample?)

Poem written and performed by Bob Beagrie, piano score composed by Glenn Maltman, recording and production by S,J. Forth.

Prodigal

Watching gnats dance
against continents of cloud-
they won’t stray far,
the garden fence greening

you roll sea smooth stones
around the hollows of your mouth
spit out magic for the mic

to bring the great forest
inside the home, you took,
within a box of relics

burnished autumn packages, 
a fox fur carried 
by geese flying south
necks stretching

into next year’s final frost, 
when you will have to turn back
(running time run out),

where a toppled statue of power
someone’s father, lies in the rain, 
waiting for the flood, your head 

stuffed with translucent cities
a street of storytellers, a black desert
you’ll say was once a fertile plain
littered with wild flowers, 

whatever pilfered beliefs 
fill your pockets
we’ll plant in our garden,

a tower block’s stairwell and a broken lift 
sit in each cochlear, the dodgy clutch
of my car slips, the engine stalls
traffic backs up


seasons shift,
the incinerator drifts off
its dinner, gulls whirl like its snores,
 
flying widdershins about a fairy ring 
on a sponsored roundabout,
combing a breadcrumb path 
through ground mist;

though we both know you’ll always 
take the slow road; trying to forget 
the direction, denying the truth of maps -
you’ll drag the story back

to where you suspect there’s a rabbit off
in a waterlogged field that cradles
dripped flames of shepherd’s delight;

a nightjar’s nest, a single egg,
the shell beginning to crack
like the home that waits for your hand
upon the door knob, your foot upon the step.


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Originally released on the cult `(episodes from) The Field Bazaar' album of the same name and recently featured on The First Active Listeners Acid Folk Sampler.

The Bane Tree

O Campo Bazar was a Portuguese Twilight Zone/Tales of the Unexpected style programme which should have disappeared without a trace as was the TV company’s wishes had it not been for the release of ` (episodios de) O Campo Bazar’. This was a promotional gimmick marketed as `a sampler of instrumental works created especially for the programme’ and has since become a ultra rare curio hiding out with the national collection of Hen’s Teeth.

The original press release states that `the stunning full colour sleeve features O Campo Bazar in horrifically realistic costumes’. This is the only reference ever given to the performers who were - and still are - a mystery. Released in Portugal in 1973 on the Gravacoes Freeworld label this collection of sinister synth led soundscapes is long overdue a rerelease.

Several years later the cult status and mythos of the group/artist brought about the release of `The Bane Tree’– again on the Gravacoes Freeworld label. The artist(s) name had been translated into English - The Field Bazaar - and the (episodes from), which was a clear indication of its TV series roots, had also been translated and kept. It has the feel of being demos and unused tracks from the original recordings although the music is more acoustic and pastoral sounding with greater use having been made of sound effects. The performers remain unknown.

Recently artwork for a previously unknown  (episodes from) The Field Bazaar album `A Tale of Witches, Woodland and half-remember melodies…’ - Unreleased and assumed lost - was discovered in a box of old picture frames at a church jumble sale in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire. A ¼ inch tape also surfaced in 2012 which is now believed to be tracks from the recording sessions for this lost album. So far a tweaked and updated tune `The Musgrave Ritual’ is the only track to have materialized from this lost album. The title again references Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and includes a reading of the ancient ritual from the Sherlock Holmes story of the same name.

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