Sam Lee Songdreaming Vinyl LP 2024

1. Bushes and Briars
2. Meeting Is A Pleasant Place
3. McCrimmon
4. Leaves of Life
5. Green Mossy Banks
6. Aye Walking Oh
7. Dreams of the Returning
8. Black Dog and Sheep Crook
9. Sweet Girl McRee

Partly sourced from an old Devon Gypsy folksong, perfectly anointed with enough melodic and lyrical orientation, comes this timeless ordinance for the act of singing with the land.‘Meeting’ is a charm or spell song to render the ground beneath us transparent to time, history and politics. This evolving of an old Devon mantra asks the land, and the many generations who have held songful allegiances to it, to chorus along. But ‘Meeting’ also calls in a new idea of companionship for the journeys we make. It imagines what stewardship for the land could be today, inherently petitioning for a permissive ‘open for all’ state in how we understand our place in nature. ‘Meeting’ is an anthem for a future that holds a naturecentric ideology at its heart. It asks what equality could feel like within the custodianship of our common stories both ancient and modern, and what guardianship of a nature-enriched and nature-centred England, Britain and World could be. To see it we must first sing it.