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Crowden

by Datsch

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1.
Qureat Alghurab 05:49
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From a great height The flat plain emerges My misty descent is close-winged, heart plunging Cold wind tearing, tearing my eyelids I see your quadrate form, field-bounded I target a low entry point An arabesque aperture in the understory I time the gyre of my momentum Diffusing to speedlessness Capping my inertia I am down in the spinney at Tinney Flustered, encloaked by the dapple spring-light Beams of flicker heat draw effusively Lines plenipotentiary and purposeful Qureat alghurab Anenome speaks to me Anenome entreats me Anenome defeats me Anenome completes me Scattering shards Sublimating simulacra Sweating the source code Ruminating the ramparts Culminating in the curious What are you called? How can I place you? White-glazed, blue-greened, purple veined At the foot of the ash culm Via the learning of names I increase my power Yet remain subsidiary, interstitial Here in the great glowing of name-space I can flower and re-flower, spring and re-spring Corner-side, root-sat Splaying my wings against the febrile ground Feeling the grains and nodules of worm-cast soil Entuning vibrations to calibrate your soul Internalising all your outer beauty and fierce fellowship Anenome nemorosa
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Gusstaka na Garvanah 05:16
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Deep in the shaw Co-creating silently Building up to forming a plan Pasting peculiar pockets Of half-remembered regions Gusstaka na Garvanah Plasmid patience following circular arguments Anhydrogenase reduces, digests, breaks the loop Creating sticky ends Endlessly copied and transformed From fragments and segments Electrophoresis reveals The distinctive banding of: Enchanter's Nightshade Speckled and splayed, half-unseen Tiny whites, tri-petalled Ever so slightly coppered, toasted by the sun Matt-leaved and splendorate Dull-veined but flowing rich with deep magic The sun has moved just two degrees and the time for spellcast has arrived I am poised with potential, part onlooker, part participant Holly looks on, a sharp-toothed canopy The little patch of enchantment As the spell's mysteries begin to take hold Dragging me down Under the flow Under the dreamline Under the spell Under the influence The Holly offers no help Just blank-faced shards and angles Motionless, emotionless and Deeper than the dark green gloss of its leaves Spikey yet spineless Gravitating to an isotopic continuum We are all changed but seemingly untouched As if we had already been spellbound and sepll-released And with a jaunty Parisian tail-flick I move on, untransformed Circaea lutetiana
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Wuya Xiao Senlin 03:43
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A copse in cold winter light Kelvinate corpuscles incriminating color temperatues 6,000 K of blue-grey Infinitely stranded, the network of evolution spans and insinuates an anti entropic directions into all beings Variation: multithreaded, green-leavened, birth-channeled and unbound Copiously corralled curated consequence Cro summons Cleve from the air, tapping into the unersal well of cleverness, channeling through wings and sternum through claws gripping the uppermost branches of the Elder. Cleve flows through tips and twigs and branches and boughs Wuya Xiao Senlin It all starts here, threaded with a needle of Stitchwort leaves, pointed, sharp Poly-veined, hyper hyphal Fullsomely forensic Mass distribution, complete convolution Omnidirectional fizzing of life-force From plant to plant, microbe to megafauna Soil-crumb to megalith The blind white purity of each four-petalled face Guiding the future, driving the present, built on the past Stellaria holostea
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Kraai Kreupelhout 03:30
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Symbiotic give and take Each transaction arrayed along a spectrum Clinging to coppice, stealthily submergedm cruising inelegantly through leaf litter and Homeric hurricanes of humus Toothwort Corolla irregular Imbricated in the bud Parasitical on the roots Concealed, bell-shaped and united Pastel-purple, colour barely there Cro smells something, nothing, the lack of chlorophyll The neutral ebb of root-sap Flowing, but not a fair exhange Hazel does not seem to mind Several crimson stigmas Enclosed in a bud-like involucre Tiny heralds of Spring's effusiveness Kraai Kreupelhout Defiantly effortlessly phytotrophic Unjudgemental of nutrient flows Cro wonders for the first time about having a place in a heirarchy Actions great and small Endeavours ,ighty and humble Honour accorded and received Privilege distributed It all seems purposeless to Cro Opaque and fabricated, a hollow echo in the face of seamless, instant expression Cro moved on, unhesitant Lathraea squamaria
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Crowden 04:13
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A curious clump, quite querulous and catch-all Clanking and tympanic, tall limbs tousled and tumbled Uppermosts gale-battered and spirally upswept Negligibly nestled at the base of the boughs Shielded from shouty sheets of rain rod rattling and torrential raging roars Cro can hear a whisper to the thunder Like and eye opening in the darkness The pale-lipped White Helleborine defies the shade Exquisite tenderness and delicate dissonance A pure un-white, smudged yet clean The Beech strews tresses of three-cornered mast down onto its protegee, garlanding the glade A feast for yellow-necked woodmice and stock dove alike Crowden Cro tries to assimilate the vibrance of the Helleborine, to taste the nutty wholesomeness of the beechmast, but to no avail Cro's dark eyes fall but do not grasp Cro is patient, persistent, peerless, and tries and tries and tries some more But still no flavour, no resonance Cro shrugs, flies on Sometimes the world is transparent to us; we have no receptors Sometimes giving up is neutral, easy, a word scratched out in soil, erased by the wind Cephalanthera damasonium
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Metsäsaarekkeella (feat. Katri Matikainen) 03:33
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Slumbering forms Nukkuu, nukkuu, kivimuurit mullan alla Long-buried stone walls Triumphs of architecture Crumbled to forgotten nothingness Murenee unohdukseen Metsäsaarekkeella Karviainen kasvaa, varis Raakkuu, raakkuu Keisari vanhan ja uuden Raakkuu, raakkuu, raakkuu Bell-shaped Thorn-guarded Green-hairy Never-fruits Metsäinen saari pellon keskellä Kohtalon edessä se nöyrtyi Raita tuhottiin perhosen alta Häiveperhonen, oi parka Kohtalon varis kumartumaan joutui, joutui, joutui, joutui, joutui... Metsäsaarekkeella In the Crowden Karviainen kasvaa, varis Gooseberries grow Raakkuu, raakkuu Crow caws, caws Keisari vanhan ja uuden Emperor of old and new Raakkuu, raakkuu, raakkuu Metsäinen saari pellon keskellä The grove is an island in the field Kohtalon edessä se nöyrtyi Humbled in the face of destiny Raita tuhottiin perhosen alta Goat willow was destroyed beneath the butterfly Häiveperhonen, oi parka Oh poor, poor Purple Emperor Kohtalon varis kumartumaan joutui, joutui, joutui, joutui, joutui... The crow of destiny had to bow, had to, had to, had to ... Ribes uva-crispa Ribes grossularia
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Krähen Wäldchen (feat. Elaine DiMasi) 03:41
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Sea cliffs rise out of the perspective-wide ocean plain Chop-sided island cloaked in spindrifts of salt spray Foraminifera ooze sediment, creating vast beds of calcerous coccoliths Millennia-buried deep underground But the currents still flow Timewards, Clevewards We'll walk and hear the ferns and thickets Lay eyes on a bowing stem Stop our feet like brambles Redirect our rambles Radiärsymmetrische Blüte Radially symmetric flowers Mit fünf Kronblättern With five petals Und vielen Staubblättern And many stamens Bramble 380 microspecies With which Cro requires leisure and enthusiastic diligence to familiarise Krähen Wäldchen In the dene of the crow Wind-beat Whitebeam is flashing as in gusts Bristol, Wilmott's, Robertson's, Houston's and Observatory A blinking background, pulsating codes and temporal transients Modulating the transmission of: Beaming Brombeeren and Blackberries Bouncing beauties bursting barriers and breaking the boundless burdens Cro just likes the taste Rubus fruticosus Agg.
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Kauve Ka Jungal 04:36
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Under a tranquil canopy Cubes of clarity are carved into by curious Cro Wrenching beakwards, in search of Prismatic loveliness Cro's deepening desire for shards of beauty is always close Never-closer, almost unfelt Purple pleasure but unscented, dog-named A reporoach for its want of perfume Kauve ka jungal Deep deep deep deep Deep in the thick of the thicket Violet Sepals acute, awl-shaped bracts, stem channelled Dog Violet, Blue Mice, Shoes and Stockings Sycamoe fights and flights Tall-tangled and artless, flaunting and gaunt Cro maps their differences and learns their habits Swallowing swan song and superficial architecture Cro beams Byzantine belligerencies to counter The flow of insipid indolence A cartography of creativity and calibrated critiques Viola canina Viola riviniana
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Hutan Gagak 04:29
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Suddenly Cro Suddenly know (s) Suddenly how to Access the flow Sees future sees past As if Cro could always do this A memory, a wish, a dream Hutan gagak Resonance is strong here Instant summer, a wing beat of cold winter Followed by ice ages Then prehistorical cycads, ferns, horsetails and supercontinents Cro stops crowness Cro halts movement Under-curls legs and sits on the ground Meditating, cro-ditates, all ears open Cro opening as if a flower After the quietness Green Hellebore reveals itself Fading in and out of perception Palmate-leaved Green-petalled Poison-honeyed Early flowering Injure-foot-green The towering Norway Maple readies itself to Fling down redgreen winglets, decoratively, over the scene Cro feels changed now, stranged now Is adjacency required? Or is Cro touched and inspired? An infinity of possibility Has opened up Forward, back, sight, sound smell, even travel A time-travellind crow Helleborus viridis
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Karasu No Zokibayashi 04:08
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Elegance and beauty are in the dark round eye of the beholder Smooth and pure, texturalised and maculate Black pebble, white pebble encounter each other Repelling and attracting Cro is always drawn to beauty, wherever it may fall In the corner of the copse A five-stem yew Burnished by mastodons Shrugged of stormfall becch boughs Wafting yellow-clouded Guarding, guarding small beauties Leaf merged around stalk Stalk piercing leaf Cradling the precious delicate white flower of Spring Beauty Cro cannot create Cro is already purple-fringed blackness beauty Karasu No Zokibayashi Cro feel wu-wei Cro becomes three-legged, yatagarasu Feel the qi of nature Present the qi Let nature flow through Cro-men, omen, a rare sand land, distant A change stirs within Cro stamps a clawprint in the soft dark canvas of a molehill Cares, with a diagonal stroke of the beak, a slash aboe the claw First glyph, first art? Cro contemplates, critiques Rejects, restarts, reconsiders, renews, accepts -- creates! Claytonia perfoliata
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Kageya Kadu 04:24
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Longtime looking, Cro searches for ideas and information Nuggest of mind-nutrients, morsels of memory and math Cro looks northside dark colder mossworn striated elm-bark no food here today Cro looks southside warm yellow sun-hot Cro looks windward nothing here today westward windswept unkempt snack-free zone Cro look lee, there! In the pocket, in the eddy-calm Two early grasshoppers make a long-awaited meal But what was the question again? Twayblade unfrayed concave wide-splayed leaf blades Kageya kadu A simulacro approaching requisite density Full-bore stomach rumbling A twisting gnawing tumbling A vast emptiness, cavernous inside Cro Hunger-Elm fastidious and flaccid Burgeoning and belly-ached Cro realises that food and thought and entirely different concepts Staves off the pangs with ascetic determination Accessing the prallel worlds with perpendicular words Skimming the arrays to find the version where food is Right here right now, easy-grabbed beak-bountied, belly burstful Then back to world A.prime.stop.zero Cro thinks is is a great Trickster trick Cro sits by the orchid, breathing in world-density Before long Cro realises: The hunger is not gone -- you can't take metabolites between worlds: The small plain orchid's lesson Neottia ovata
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Corvus Silvam 02:45
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Drenched in dark-light dew glow flew Cro Twisting downwards to the understory 'Twas the first visiting to the particular peculiar copse Cro feels unbelonging Alien feeling, not-invented-here This unsettles Cro The always-feels-at-home Cro On the incarnadine edge A Yellow Balsam dangles, oblvious A fellow alien form, displaced and immigrant Wandering and hopeful, unjudged Cro cannot process this anomaly Uncomfortable and non-sequitur Cro looks around for an escape plan Poplar gives a route up its obloid trunk Cro follows, scamper-flapping, beak skywards Bursting through twig tips and canpy Wings almost-eagle, Cro soars Ever skyward, homewards, the the embrace of sky Higher and higher, black heat of sun on wing, deep blueness Wide eye scatter, muscles lactic-sore Forgetting the future, scanning the horizons Deftly distinguishing the half dome Cro can see green everywhere until the edges of view Eyes strain for distant colour -- ocean blue Eyes strain for truth -- the next clue Impatiens noli-me-tangere

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Crowden is an album of 12 songs about a copse, each of which highlights a plant as seen by a crow character who is called Cro. Each song is called simply 'Crow's Copse' but in a different language each time, in alphabetical order so using Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hindi, Japanese, Indonesian, Kannada and Latin

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released July 6, 2022

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Datsch England, UK

Datsch takes musical snapshots of the flora of the Surrey Hills, England as seen through the eyes of a mythical crow called Cro. Through-composed, unstrophic unrhymed free verse and prog-folkish with deep harmonies and wayward guitars.

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