These were recorded, mixed and mastered by Jono Podmore (Metamono / Kumo) at Vanishing Point night promoted by Neil March at the Ivy House in Nunhead South London December 2018. 
They feature George E Harris and Alison O'Melia plus David Rothon, Mark Hill (from Metamono), Erik Moore and Agata Lisowska
Follow the link below to purchase full digital album
https://rookeryensemble.bandcamp.com/album/rookery

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Rookery Album

Rookery Live recording with 
George E Harris Alison O'Melia David Rothon Agata Liswoska
Erik Moore and Mark Hill 
at Demerara Records Vanishing Point 
at Ivy House NunHead South London December 2018
Recording by Jono Podmore
Photograph by Paul Cooke

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Paradise Walk

Rookery Live recording with 
George E Harris Alison O'Melia David Rothon Agata Liswoska
Erik Moore and Mark Hill 
at Demerara Records Vanishing Point 
Ivy House NunHead South London December 2018
Recording by Jono Podmore
Photograph by Paul Cooke

Optional Focus

Rookery Live recording with 
George E Harris Alison O'Melia David Rothon Agata Liswoska
Erik Moore and Mark Hill 
at Demerara Records Vanishing Point 
Ivy House NunHead South London December 2018
Recording by Jono Podmore
Photograph by Paul Cooke

Music by Rookery
Words by George E Harris 

Vs IN THE WINDOW
It’s not so fictional, holding on this thread.
Strengths in the bare cords laid open and in front.
The parts we perform in this ongoing play.
This theatre in knuckle rides looking to the sides in all.

Advance to the board,
Tears of edges, people at source.
Rationing of supply, sustaining the whys.
Question the facts as the rubble is piling.

Syncopated games in conflict aboard this mid-day journey.
Suns are high through the east and west horizons.
In the back talking over each other in co-ordinated chaos.
Conversational variants by land, sea and sky.
The secret payments in order to disrupt the given process.

Orders now projected from valleys afield, proverbial in bright eyes.
The v in the window could be a tick.
Real eyes are now needed in fluctuating appearances.
Headlong into abominable implications through manipulated discourse.
Payed for by the twisted minds, a few gaining on this climate of fear.

Routes in and routing out secrets of those vanished.
Power in the hand, performers in the fields.
Acting on lands, transversing the deep flow.
Whipping up the dust in a quake of murmuring shouts.
Oh, we have not finished it yet!

Also published as text in the publication
AND THEN IT COMES BLOWING 
poetic expressions of George E Harris  2017

Published by London Poetry Books / William Cornelius Harris Publishers https://www.londonpoetrybooks.com/product/come-blowing-poetic-expressions-george-e-harris/

Vs In The Window

Rookery Live recording with 
George E Harris Alison O'Melia David Rothon Agata Liswoska
Erik Moore and Mark Hill 
at Demerara Records Vanishing Point 
Ivy House NunHead South London December 2018
Stage Sound Engineered by Hugh Aynsley 
Recording by Jono Podmore
Photograph by Paul Cooke

Music by Rookery
Words by George E Harris
'Shipping Clerk' words also published as part of a book 
called 'Messing Up The Paintwork The Wit and Wisdom of Mark E Smith'
(featuring Original Dedication Poems and Words, Articles, etc 
from other wordsmiths)...
Published by Ebury Press 2018
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1116724/messing-up-the-paintwork/9781785039850.html

Shipping Clerk

Rookery Live recording with 
George E Harris Alison O'Melia David Rothon Agata Liswoska
Erik Moore and Mark Hill 
at Demerara Records Vanishing Point 
Ivy House NunHead South London December 2018
Recording by Jono Podmore
Photograph by Paul Cooke

Instrumental Original Concept by Alison O'Melia

st(A)rt

Rookery Live recording with 
George E Harris Alison O'Melia David Rothon Agata Liswoska
Erik Moore and Mark Hill 
at Demerara Records Vanishing Point 
Ivy House NunHead South London December 2018
Recording and Photograph by Jono Podmore

The Projectionist

Rookery Ensemble would like to say a few words in honour of Alison O'Melia founding member who passed away just before Christmas 2020 after a illness. We will miss you; love you in so many ways. Its still so hard to comprehend but we will follow the paths you set in music and sound. Your patterns of spirit are there rich with colour and transcend the mundane. We hold our hands up and touch those stars above in which way they shine xxx 

Rookery Ensemble were founded by
George Harris and Alison O'Melia 
they were previously called Brother G and The Trouble and World Of Surprises and started in 2011. Performing a number of concerts as a duo and ensemble.
They have ploughed several furloughs in the land of contemporary music. Currently based around George E Harris with Erik Moore and Mark Hill bringing in others in the hear and there. 
Through the lockdown in UK, Alison and George played a number of home performances for Crystal Palace Lockdown Live online which you can hear a best of album on soundcloud and bandcamp.  As well as view some on YouTube and the CPLL Facebook group page. The bandcamp album is available to buy and is raising money for St Christopher's Hospice. This was with the help of Erik Moore on various tracks virtually. 
Rookery Ensemble have just released their first vinyl album Islets Of Langerhans that was started with Alison and completed since her passing.  This album is available on Bandcamp as well as here and other streaming services and the sales are part going to St Christophers Hospice.
Other members of Ensemble  of late have been Hilary Robinson - Piano, Melodica and keyboards, David Rothon on various instruments including the Omni Chord, Pedal Steel and Melodica, Mark Hill - Electronics and Radio, Erik Moore - Bass, K- Keyboards and Percussion, Annabella Maneljuk - Melodica, Glockenspiel and Keyboards.
With previous  collaborations  from Agata Liswoska on Violin with occasional appearances by  Mitzy Valentine - Flute and Voice, Victoria Potterton on Trumpet and Voice. 
Rookery Ensemble continue to build on the fluid nature of the music through various incarnations and sounds.