Music and Poetry of the Kesh, by Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton

Music and Poetry of the Kesh

by Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton

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clathrate Co-created by the writer of the novel it's based upon, it's stunning otherness also has an authentic feel because she was the child of anthropologists.

stas sh. inyesur inye poud wey shewey 🤍 Favorite track: A River Song.

Per Larsson Wonderful music with a purpose and atmosphere all it's own.

purplefinch I found this cassette tape in a used bookstore many years ago. Always Coming Home is one of my favorite books in the world, and I was so bummed when my one tape player broke and I couldn't listen anymore. THANK YOU for re-releasing this magical, evocative, strange music! A wonderful way to celebrate the life of the late Ursula Leguin.

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1.	Heron Dance 04:08	buy track
2.	Twilight Song 01:00	buy track
3.	Yes—Singing 02:35	buy track
4.	Dragonfly Song 05:22	buy track
5.	A Homesick Song 02:17	buy track
6.	The Willows 01:40	buy track
7.	Lullaby—Lahel 04:09	buy track
8.	Long Singing 05:48	buy track
9.	The Quail Song 02:10	buy track
10.	A Teaching Poem 00:55	buy track
11.	A River Song 03:14	buy track
12.	Sun Dance Poem 01:53	buy track
13.	A Music of the Eighth House 05:42	buy track

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Music and Poetry of the Kesh is the documentation of an invented Pacific Coast peoples from a far distant time, and the soundtrack of famed science fiction author, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home. In the novel, the story of Stone Telling, a young woman of the Kesh, is woven within a larger anthropological folklore and fantasy.

The ways of the Kesh were originally presented in 1985 as a five hundred plus page book accompanied with illustrations of instruments and tools, maps, a glossary of terms, recipes, poems, an alphabet (Le Guin’s conlang, so she could write non-English lyrics), and with early editions, a cassette of “field recordings” and indigenous song. Le Guin wanted to hear the people she’d imagined; she embarked on an elaborate process with her friend Todd Barton to invoke their spirit and tradition.

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released March 23, 2018

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