EP+1 Release: 15 July 2025
Acoustic settings of poetry by John Donne, Henry Vaughan, George Herbert, Alexander Montgomerie, and Thomas Campion.
Instrumentation
Guitars: Lowden, Fender, Gretsch
Bass: Yamaha
Winds: Flute, Kratt Master Key
Other: Small percussion
Production
Recorded in Queen's Loft, Celestia
Mastering: LANDR
Cover image: "Lomond", oil on linen, Léa Kristmanson (2025) from her series, "The Pathless Woods".
'Jacobean' Tracks
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Jacobean
"What the children know, as the centuries flow, as we turn to coal, still the ember glows..."
Song
"And swear, nowhere, lives a woman true and fair."
John Donne (1572-1631)
Night
"His still, soft call, his knocking time, the soul's dumb watch, when spirits their fair kindred catch."
HenryVaughan (1621-1695)
"Poetry on the edge... of love, pandemic, New Worlds, new technologies, fossil fuel, tobacco, unstable politics, colliding faiths, rising censorship.... Four hundred years later, Jacobean verse remains contemporary....
Mark Kristmanson
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