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Symphony No 1 in Coal Minor (Finaleo)

from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album) by Bardonthewire

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The finale reprises and develops the allegro into the sonnet section via the ghost valley and disco themes of the adagio and dance movements. Or to put it another way, we finally 'go for a walk together. Up the Mountain." The epiphany on a bridge in Wales, hemmed in and called elsewhere by green mountains, is my favourite Phezants backing track with the sonnet superimposed. It fitted like a glove. The imagined 'girl' in line 14 is the one singing the harmony and we have been married 40 years as this album is released. Nice.

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1. Up The Mountain.
2. (coda) Isla's Song (Star The Dark)

The river’s prophet tongue I now understand:
I am heir to my druid realm at last.
Girl’s curves hover, almost in my grasp,
The boys step back a bit; I have command.
Down Jerusalem Lane, mine’s the upper hand,
A Carpenter of Fate in the Christmas
Sun - then the mocking mud, led on by a judas
To his Hotpoint, house, wife, ‘friends’, looks that brand.

No escape, through a room that madly pulsates
To Pen y Maen bridge, tracing beneath it
Green microdot fields, hills’ pie in the sky,
Victorian railings, Dad’s Thought Police eye.
I need a real home, away from this place:
A girl, a room, a bed, tavern, music…

© Gareth Calway (first published in 'Exile In His Country,' Bluechrome, 2006)

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from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album), released November 22, 2019

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Bardonthewire England, UK

Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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