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Ben Chatwin - Mirroring

“In old days, when the O’Dowds were Lords of Tireragh, the then chief, when walking early in the morning along the sea-shore, discovered amongst the rocks a mermaid lying asleep, enveloped in a gorgeous mantle, Now everybody—or at least everybody in that locality—knows that if one can only get possession of this special article of a sea-nymph’s costume she at once loses her aquatic nature both as regards form and disposition, and degenerates into an ordinary mortal!
O’Dowd, therefore, stepped forward stealthily, and became the happy possessor of the magic mantle. In this case the wooing was not long in doing, for the chief took the metamorphosed nymph home as his bride, and carefully concealed the gorgeous garment.
Retribution, however, finally overtook him. His seven children were nearly grown to maturity, when, one day his youngest born saw him abstract the mantle from its hiding-place to deposit it where he imagined it would be still more secure. The youth, struck by the manner in which—as he gazed on it—the garment flashed, glistened, and changed hues—ran off to describe its beauties to his mother, who, thereupon seized with a sudden yearning to return to her native element, inquired where her husband had left it. On resuming possession of her long-lost garment she bade her children follow her to the sea-shore, and being now reendowed with all the attributes of a mermaid, she touched each of her children in succession with her magic wand, and thus changed them into seven stones, while she herself plunged into the ocean, and has never again been seen in Tireagh.”

 
"Nei tempi antichi, quando gli O'Dowd erano i Signori di Tireragh, l'allora capo, passeggiando di buon mattino lungo la riva del mare, scoprì tra le rocce una sirena addormentata, avvolta in un meraviglioso mantello. Ora, tutti — o almeno tutti in quella località — sanno che, se si riesce a impossessarsi di questo speciale indumento di una ninfa marina, ella perde immediatamente la sua natura acquatica, sia nella forma che nel comportamento, e degenera in una comune mortale!
O'Dowd, quindi, si avvicinò furtivamente e divenne il felice possessore del mantello magico. In questo caso, la conquista non richiese molto tempo, poiché il capo portò la ninfa trasformata a casa come sua sposa e nascose con cura il magnifico indumento.
Le conseguenze di quell'atto, tuttavia, alla fine lo raggiunsero. I suoi sette figli erano ormai quasi adulti, quando un giorno il più giovane vide il padre estrarre il mantello dal nascondiglio per riporlo in un luogo che riteneva ancora più sicuro. Il ragazzo, colpito dal modo in cui — mentre lo osservava — il mantello brillava, scintillava e cambiava colore, corse a descriverne le meraviglie alla madre, la quale, colta da un improvviso desiderio di tornare al suo elemento natale, chiese dove il marito l'avesse nascosto. Riprendendo possesso del suo mantello a lungo perduto, invitò i suoi figli a seguirla fino alla riva del mare e, riacquistati tutti gli attributi di una sirena, toccò ciascuno dei suoi figli con la sua bacchetta magica, trasformandoli in sette pietre, mentre lei stessa si tuffò nell'oceano e non fu mai più vista a Tireragh."


The Mermaid Stones

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Dmitry Evgrafov & Vika Bogorodskaya — Ride

One Swallow

Arranged and Produced by Madeleine Cocolas
Artwork by Lucille Clerc
Mastered by Ben Wiffen

Bandcamp: https://bigoandtwigetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-exquisite-corpse
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6BGukvyyYZakaNCSlCprsS
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/stalactite/id1171077226?i=1171077248

We’re pleased to announce the first track from our new album  ‘The Exquisite Corpse’, created in collaboration with artists from one of our favourite record labels ‘Moderna Records’ and based on the surrealist game.

Taking Leah Kardos ‘Little Phase’ from our Summer Compilation as its starting point, the piece will be reworked by a series of composers and producers to create an album of tracks which continually evolve as each new version is passed from one artist to another, adding to and transforming material from the original piece. We’ll be releasing a new track from the album every 2-3 weeks so keep an eye on our social media for updates!

The Exquisite Corpse

Stalactite

Madeleine Cocolas - Stalactite

Live performance using Ableton Live's Looper.

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Impromptu No. 1

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Autumn

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Village Green Recordings is a British independent label reshaping the landscape of minimalism, classical and electronic music.