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Redemption Of The White Tailed Sea Eagle

from We Are Not Where You Are by Jamie Flett

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I made this specifically for an open call for submissions to be included on a compilation of music released in connection with Remembrance Day for Lost Species ( www.lostspeciesday.org ) and an earlier version of the track was included: remembrancespecies.bandcamp.com/album/remembrance-species-2020 Most of the music on the compilation is concerned with species that we’ve lost through extinction but having contributed a ‘Requiem’ for the extinct Monk Seal (also to be found later on this album) to a previous compilation I wanted a less morbid story to tell this time if possible. The ‘redemption’ for the Sea Eagles is that they were indeed extinct in this country for the last century or so but they’ve been successfully reintroduced, which is a slightly more optimistic slant in these trying times.

An even earlier demo of the track is on YouTube here: youtu.be/yHGFvZ53Yyo You can hear in that clip it was built on repetitive loops of guitar harmonics that create a pinging, tinkling percussive rhythm which suggested a fairly straight drum groove to back it up and then I jammed some guitar on top of that. In the demo it’s acoustic guitar but ended up being electric in the later recording, and I had some fun with more harmonics and string noise that I ring modulated with one of my favourite FX pedals to make them unearthly. Those jammed chord changes gave me a shape for a song structure and some lyrics that I wanted to use that, to be honest, weren’t written about a Sea Eagle originally but did have something to do with imaginative freedom and the natural world and I had a go at trying to avoid the cliché of going on about being as free as a bird while sort of suggesting a sensation close enough to that to allow me to relate it to the Sea Eagles. The loops, drums, electric guitar and bass seemed to be grooving along quite nicely but I reckoned a wee lift was required on some of the changes so some household items like pans, lids, metal ornaments and cutlery were turned into percussion instruments to supplement the rhythm.

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Between the air and me
A synergy
And my gravity
Asking how to be ?

The possibilities
I will sing the sea
Just feel the breeze

Asking how to be ?
I will sing the sea

My time, time for me
How fine, to sing the sea
Feel the breeze
Feel the beach's beat
Just feel the breeze

The possibilities
I will sing the sea
Just feel the breeze

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from We Are Not Where You Are, released June 2, 2023

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Jamie Flett Glasgow

Music maker from Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland, now living in Glasgow.
Since my first collection of skewed, folkish blues songs: ‘Cold But Bright’ I’ve tried to resist the artificial limitations of defining myself as a ‘singer-songwriter’ (admittedly, while writing and singing songs.) This has resulted in attempts to investigate some remoter sonic territories.. As well as more songs. ... more

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