Album: Under Minnow road

As i walked along a road i had never been along before, i was struck by the road’s anachronistic patchwork of buildings and names, and i ended up having a thousand thoughts by the time i reached the end of the short little road. i wrote down these thoughts, and ended up with this album. ….. A mixture of my own personal history, and the feelings i had when on Under Minnow road, and also the place’s history i was walking through.

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Credits

pieces 1, 4, and 7 are written by Roo

Piece 3 is from 1684 , a folk song collected by Elias Ashmole

piece 5 lyrics by William Blake in 1804, melody by Hubert Parry in 1916 arranged by Roo

piece 6 the lyrics are by Roo, the melody is an arrangement of ‘Down on sandbank fields- a.k.a. ‘basket of eggs’- a Devon folk tune (collected by Maud Karpeles)

Piece 8 is a religious folk melody of an ancient hymn, collected by the cantor Eliezar Mordecai Gerovitsch at some point in the 1800s, (possibly a melody of medieval spanish origin!) arranged and adapted by Roo

Piece 9 is Devon Folk song, collected by Sabine Baring-Gould in the 1800s

All music recorded, mixed, and played by
Roo (singing, guitar, piano, banjo, percussion, flute, accordion, melodica)

Front cover drawing by Roo (drawn from memory and is a drawing of how i felt about the road, the day i got back from my first walk along Under Minnow Road)

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If you navigate to Bandcamp, hover over the song titles, and click on ‘lyrics’ of each song individually, you will find not only the lyrics but also some more information about the song.

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Released: July 20, 2023