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Holes

Covered In Holes (Live from the garden)

110623

Elephant Feet

Jet lag insomnia led to me to record this at 4am

In Somnia We Rust

https://repeater-radio.com/shows/velvet-sheep/

Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves The Sunshine  00:00:20 - 00:04:20
Eric Chenaux Trio - This Ain’t Life  00:05:37 - 00:15:54
Martin Arnold - Stain Ballad  00:17:36 - 00:30:35
Dumbo Tracks - What If feat. nothingspecial  00:30:59 - 00:34:59
Gulp - Search For Your Love  00:34:52 - 00:39:10
Vashti Bunyan - I’d Like To Walk Around In Your Mind  00:40:05 - 00:42:20
A Lily - Sirna l-Qamar  00:42:17 - 00:46:40 
Rookery Ensemble - The Conversation  00:48:50 - 00:54:55
Honeymoon Killers - Basket Case  00:55:04 - 00:58:20
Sally Barry - Come in Electronica  00:59:02 - 01:03:43
Lau Nau - Ystäväni Nosferatu  01:04:34 - 01:09:32
Air Waves - The Roof (Blue Hawaii Upside Down Mix)  01:09:26 - 01:13:01
The Raincoats - You’re A Million  01:14:20 - 01:18:13
Comet Gain - Dreams Of A Working Girl  01:18:09 - 01:21:05
Moonshake - Beautiful Pigeon  01:22:21 - 01:25:49
Chris Corsano - The Full-Measure Wash Down  01:25:43 - 01:29:22
G O L - No Bounds  01:30:51 - 01:35:58
Nathan Bowles Trio - The Ternions  01:35:52 - 01:44:05
Gemma Rogers - Coming For The Top  01:44:28 - 01:47:30
The Lovely Eggs - Nothing: Everything  01:47:28 - 01:54:31
OSEES - Earthling  01:55:19 - 01:58:51

Velvet Sheep with Nick Hutchings | #85 200724

ARKESTRATION
Sonia Edgy - vocals
Loz Speyer - trumpet, flugelhorn
James Allsopp - tenor sax, bass clarinet
Gabriel Keen - piano, synth, alto sax
Olie Brice - double bass
Gary Willcox - drums

Recorded live April 2018 by Tom Bra
At Ridley Road Market Bar, Dalston, London E8

Space is the Place (Sun Ra) - Arkestration

From the first album - 5 string litungu, gongs, santoor, bells, metallophone, vocals, shakers

Maggie

Musuc for recent Kathakali performance.  Keith Bray Bansuri Flute and Mohan vocal.

Everyone needs a positive force in their life
A child needs a mother or a father to say
Well done, you’re brilliant 
But it’s not just children who need it 

Everyone needs to feel they are part of their world 
A sense of direction and a place to belong
To feel they are valued
And are worth somebody’s attention

Positive Force

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/

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Vs In The Window

Lyrics

St Louis, Missouri 
Three brothers playing games 
One looks through his father’s drawers 
A fatal mistake 

Parents startled to the sound of bang 
Rushed up, saw one son on the ground 
Another with a gun in his hand 
He thought it was a toy 

Wake up America 
Ban the gun 
How much longer can this go on? 
This senseless killing 
Ban the gun 
It’s time to right this wrong 

Down in Parkland Florida 
High school in a safe town 
Torn apart by a young man 
Angry with the world he shot 17 down 

The classroom’s now quiet 
Mourning the innocent 
They all saw it coming 
History repeats 

Wake up America 
Ban the gun 
How much longer can this go on? 
This senseless killing 
Ban the gun 
It’s time to right this wrong 

500,000 young voices unite 
Marching and roaring in rage 
500,000 young voices unite 
Marching in hope for a change 

500,000 young voices unite 
Marching and roaring in rage 
500,000 young voices unite 
Marching in hope for a change 

Wake up America 
Ban the gun 
How much longer can this go on? 
This senseless killing 
Ban the gun 
It’s time to right this wrong 

Wake up America 
Ban the gun 
How much longer can this go on? 

Wake up America 
(Ban the gun) 

Wake up America 
(Ban the gun) 

Wake up America 
(Ban the gun) 
It’s time to right this wrong


credits
released February 6, 2019 
Music by Ella Patenall 
Lyrics by Ella Patenall and Nasreen Toorabally 
Recorded and co-produced by Paul Riches
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Wake up America! (Ban the Gun)

Object

One forget two
Too forlorn to

Like chalk on the paper, you can’t see
Mist in a valley, mystery
Fog as far as the eye can see
Got myself into bad company

Screaming with no volume, no sound
Wish my head could turn it all around
A smile is just a frown laid on its head
Tell me how love wins all in the end

Tell me how love wins all in the end
Tell me how we’ll always be good friends
Tell me how ours is a bond that never breaks, it never ends

It’s You.

You said, “darling, please, don’t turn away”; 
And then you turned away
You read stories in the lines of my hands, behind my eyes
Don’t you understand?
It’s You

It’s You.

It's You

Instrumental Track Created by Jerry Hope of the Dust Collectors around 2006 or before.

Folky Stuff

Shipping Forecast - Jerry Hope

Eulogy for Peter

Jerry Hope solo spoken word in studio recording

Solo performance

Hindsight - Jerry Hope

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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.

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