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ursula k le guin / todd barton - music & poetry of the kesh - freedom to spend - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Heron Dance
2. Twilight Song
3. Yes-Singing
4. Dragonfly Song
5. A Homesick Song
6. The Willows
7. Lullaby-Lahela
8. Long Singing
9. The Quail Song
10. A Teaching Poem
11. A River Song
12. Sun Dance Poem
13. A Music Of The Eighth House

Deluxe spot printed jacket with illustrations from the book Always Coming Home, a facsimile of the original lyric sheet, liner notes by Moe Bowstern, a download code and a limited edition letterpressed bookmark. Edition of 1000 copies. Music and Poetry of the Kesh is the documentation of an invented Pacific Coast peoples from a far distant time, and the soundtrack of famed science fiction author, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home. In the novel, the story of Stone Telling, a young woman of the Kesh, is woven within a larger anthropological folklore and fantasy.

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The ways of the Kesh were originally presented in 1985 as a five hundred plus page book accompanied with illustrations of instruments and tools, maps, a glossary of terms, recipes, poems, an alphabet (Le Guin’s conlang, so she could write non-English lyrics), and with early editions, a cassette of “field recordings” and indigenous song. Le Guin wanted to hear the people she’d imagined; she embarked on an elaborate process with her friend Todd Barton to invoke their spirit and tradition.