Practice Freedom, by David Colohan

Practice Freedom

by David Colohan

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	1.	Walking Towards Water 00:48
	2.	Practice Freedom 03:54
	3.	In Tofkapi Gardens 00:50
	4.	Lately I've Been Overwhelmed 01:45
	5.	In The Hagia Sofia 01:28
	6.	Oh This World & The Next 02:05
	7.	Kadiköy Ferry (Europe Into Asia) 01:36
	8.	For Ana 00:52
	9.	Kadiköy Streets 00:45
	10.	With Hair Like Eucalyptus Mist Rising From The Valley 12:01
	11.	Call To A Prayer Eternal 01:29

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At the end of January 2015, I went to Istanbul to celebrate my 40th birthday. While I was there I recorded several poems. Enda Trautt joined me & provides accompaniment on two of them. Between the poems are field recordings made on that visit. Apart from these shorter poems, there is a longer one with a story behind it.

Before heading across Europe on tour with Innercity in 2014, someone under whose spell I had fallen asked me to cast a spell as I travelled. This took the form of a poem & I recorded one line of it in each of the places we played in - Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Bremen, Berlin, Lovosice in the Czech Republic, Bratislava in Slovakia, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, somewhere in Macedonia, Gračanica in Kosovo, Crepaja in Serbia, Maribor & Stranska Vas in Slovenia, Rijeka in Croatia, Ravenna & Milan in Italy, Lausanne, Switzerland, somewhere in France, somewhere in Luxembourg & finally, Brussels again, closing the circle.

The events that surrounded the recording of this poem became a much expanded extension of it & I recorded that in Istanbul. Later, a coda emerged & that was recorded here in Ballymahon. Some electric mandola punctuates the poem before that final part appears. In hindsight, the poem represents a visit to the Chapel Perilous, a strange time in my life that seems like a dream to me now.

For Bolshy, from Bockety.

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released May 3, 2022

She Sleepwalks Constellations, the cover image, first appeared in issue one of Ex Abyssō (2018)

Practice Freedom was first published in issue 4 of Serbian zine Black Syrup (2020)

With Hair Like Eucalyptus Mist Rising From The Valley was first published in the inaugural issue of In the Name of the Voice (2018)

Oh This World & The Next was first published in Folk Horror Revival: Corpse Roads (2016)

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'An eerie loveliness that should really be soundtracking a Werner Herzog film; indeed Popol Vuh’s work provides a useful reference point as, similar to Vuh, the music herein is almost religious in its solemnity and grace.' The Active Listener

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