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TEMPLE MUSIC - Alpha - Barton upon Humber - St Peter

Format: CD-R Label & Cat.Number: Shining Day SHINE 07 Release Year: 2008 Note: first in the GREEN MAN PROJECT series; hand made (painted) sleeve, hand-screened discs, only 50 made!! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €9.00 More Info "The Green Man Project is presented as a private limited edition CDR (50x each volume), housed in individual, hand printed ‘art’ wraparound sleeves with information about each location. Each piece is different, as is each location; each is dense, shifting, unexpected, rhythmic, arrhythmic, modal, tonal, abrasive, ethereal... each is as different and yet the same as the Green Man himself. Take yourself on a journey of a different sort with Temple Music… The Green Man is a symbol familiar to many; it cuts across a vast swathe of interests - folklore, pagan, esoteric, architectural - and is found in a number of different contexts. Place names (farmsteads, woods), inn and pub signs, company logos and, overwhelmingly, churches, all contain references to, and images of, the Green Man, Primary and seconday schools alike set it as an art project. So ubiquitous is it, in fact, that most people will not have to have it explained to them - you can simply refer to the Green Man and they will know what you are talking about. Or, at any rate, they will know the symbol... So what exactly is the Green Man a symbol for? In broad terms, there is an agreement that he is part of our pagan past, a symbol of death, rebirth and renewal, the spirit of the Woods - Jack O? The Green, Robin Hood (Wood), the Lord of Misrule, the Corn King. A British, Celtic or Norse god brought into the churches (where he is often found in conjunction with Sheela-na-Gig) to properly sanctify them by our superstitious forebears. So broad are the terms of reference, so much does the Green Man seem to represent and signify, it seems that he is what you make of him and what you want him to be... All the World is drown’d Roots of Trees are drown’d Ocean breathes and sleeps Leaf and Branch are drown’d Here I breathe and sleep Tracy Jeffery - Harp, Vox Stephen Robinson - Bass, 3 Drone Harmonium, Lapp Frame Drum Alan Trench - Lyre, Dulcimer, Guitar, VSS30, Birds, Rainstick www.myspace.com/templemusick" [label info] www.shiningday.pl