This is the third track to be released on patreon in June 2022
"Here is a version of events that never made it to the final double album of Sundark and Riverlight, for reasons that are forgotten to me today. This version was composed in the world of the medieval celtic funeral march, a retelling of the great love and loss of Lewis and Damaris. In this recording, I am singing the the vocal and playing one of the viola parts live along with the woodwind quartet in the beautiful "wooden room" and its wild and warm acoustic at Real World Studios, the second viola part recorded immediately after just breaking into a tongue language that I haven't been possessed by since my recordings of Paris. Something supernatural and of the earth was in the room that night.
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The photograph used in the artwork above was taken by my father by Damaris grave in St. Georges Church, Brede on the very day I discovered her and the vicar told me her legend, a story i feel i've retold too many times to retell here, the one that starts there amongst the graves of my english ancestors, The Apps.
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Toward the beginning as we recorded the vocal, I suddenly began singing a part of "Black is the Colour", the irish folk song that I always felt some link between Lewis's story and its very old and beautiful words, a song I had started singing on my support shows on the Amy Winehouse Back to Black tour many years before, a portent curfew bell that tumbles out my tongue sometimes, without warning.
lyrics
"Went to the cross
For to mourn and weep
Pray to the lord
Why don't your soul
He keep"
Goddamn
Damaris
It's Lewis
Black rain
Floods the downs
Ferrets burrow
Moles make mound
Round your bones
Deep underground
But nobody knows
Nobody knows
How I wait for you
Summer, Spring Autumn, Winter
Here perishing
Gypsy, stray
Bleak orphan
No one could say
The land you came from
But deep in my arms
You belonged
But nobody knows
No body knows
How I wait for you
Summer, Spring Autumn, Winter
Here perishing
My god damned
Damaris
Killed with last kiss
God damned
Damaris I loved you
Goddam these tears
This religion
Thought I was more
Than just my father’s son
Who says in limbo
Be where you’ve gone
But nobody knows
No body knows
How I wait for you
Summer, Spring Autumn, Winter
Here perishing
My god damned
Damaris
Killed with last kiss
God damned
Damaris I loved you
And now I kiss
I kiss the earth
Oh rise up rise up
Rise up now
From the earth
And I smash my fist
Into the earth
Oh rise up rise up
Rise up now
From the earth
I loved you
You
You
Black rain
Floods the downs
The black rain
Black rain
credits
released November 19, 2023
Written and Produced by Patrick Wolf
Arranged for Wind Quartet,
Two Violas, Bodhran and Vocal By Patrick Wolf
Bassoon - Katie Lawrence
Clarinet - Anthony Lawton
Bass Clarinet - Emma Frampton
Cor Anglais - Craig White
Viola + Vocals by Patrick Wolf
Bodhran - Eamon Murray
Recorded at Real World Studios 2012
supported by 4 fans who also own “Damaris (Sundark & Riverlight Outtake)”
Green Altar has special place in my heart, such a beautiful song with touching words. It came out shortly before our wedding and we had our first dance to it, weeks after the wedding we saw and met chelsea and she congratulated us, this song always stirs up all the emotions moises9598
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