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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.
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stas inyesur inye poud wey shewey 🤍 Favorite track: A River Song.
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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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The Willows 01:40
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Long Singing 05:48
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A River Song 03:14
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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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