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Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds

by Various Artists

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Lyrics Well I heard the curlew was a bad omen And I’ve rarely heard a stranger thing For there’s a path that opens through conscience When they’re calling out, caught in the simmerdim And this time of year I miss the feeling The nights were once sure to bring When I’d lie awake with the windows open With an urge to set out and take their voices in And sure, there’s a part that’s haunting How the past finds ways back in But it’s just how life recycles From the marshes they rise again And their songs swim towards the surface And bubble up over the brim But sounds live on after sounding And ideas aren’t bound by the skin And soon the fields again fall silent And the Devil’s Bit starts setting in Before the dark unrolls I start to long for the simmerdim And high above the runway You’ll hear the seven whistlers welcoming Return to cycles of simmerdim
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Lyrics The curlew flies the skies alone She goes wherever she’s inclined Over stubbled field and heathered hill In search of what there is to find. She plays her flute across the marsh Her plaintive sounds draw near then fade A straight and even course she steers Towards the creek to feed and wade. She whistles her notes across the dunes The rising moon shines in her eye In the greyness of the dusk she calls The couch-grass whispers in reply. She pipes her tune across the moor The wind blows soft in harmony Into the gathering night she wings She is alone and she is free.
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Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds’ is a unique double album, multi-artist project of newly-commissioned works and soundscapes, inspired by one of the UK’s most iconic and endangered birds, the Eurasian curlew.

The project is the brainchild of the Orkney-born musician Merlyn Driver, who, with the support of the RSPB, has made this extraordinary project possible.

100% of net profits from each purchase of this Album will be donated to RSPB, a registered charity in England and Wales, number 207076, and in Scotland, number SC037654

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released May 13, 2022

Produced by Merlyn Driver, in partnership with the RSPB
Mastered by Simon Scott
Artwork by Tara Okon
Design by Mat Martin Studio

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Curlew Sounds UK

Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds’ is an album project for curlews, created by Merlyn Driver in partnership with the RSPB. Proceeds directly support the RSPB’s Curlew Recovery Programme


Twitter: @curlewsounds

Instagram: @curlewsounds

rspb.org.uk/curlewsounds

www.curlewsoundsproject.org
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