Sound On Stone - 143CD (2023) | Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit

Sound On Stone - 143CD (2023)

by Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit

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1.	Look.....see 03:10	lyrics	buy track
LOOK.....SEE Look......see.... Look out beyond..... Beyond......to see closer.... To see closer.....within. Like a string extending.... Like elastic.... Springing back....springing back.... Bringing back.....to me. Stretch eyesight beyond. Stretching insight....further.... Than beyond. Take a journey with the wind.... Seeing all it leaves behind. Take a brother....take a friend. Seek an everlasting end. See an overflowing river.... Take a dip just where it blends With the sea! Look.....see... Look.....see... Look.....
2.	Riding 08:26	lyrics	buy track
RIDING I'm riding on your tail... I'm floating while you're sailing. You'll carry me on the wind of song... You'll save me when I fail. I'm riding....riding high.... Ride the miles and gain some.... Take a journey with the wind.... And leave it all behind. Riding on....Riding on. Riding on....Riding high.... Ride the miles and gain some. Take a journey with the wind.... And leave it all behind. Come rest in my heart. I'm riding on your tail... I'm floating while you're sailing. You'll carry me on the wind of song... You'll save me when I fail. Riding on....riding high.... Ride the miles and gain some.... Take a journey with the wind.... And leave it all behind......Riding high! I will sink in under your wing.... Bring me solace in my longing!
3.	It's rain and rain 06:46	lyrics	buy track
IT'S RAIN AND RAIN It's rain and rain and rain.... My love.... Since you left us high and dry. It's rain and rain and rain again. It's raining now upon my brow.... I feel you now....all around me. It's rain and rain and rain again.... Since you left us high and dry. Rain and rain and rain...my love... Wash away the tears I cry. Rain and rain and all day... I see you in my mind's blue eye. I never will forget.... I never will forget....My love. The world we knew as you and I. I see you in my mind's blue eye.... I never will forget....I never will forget.... My love.... The world we knew as you and I. It's rain and rain and rain and rain and rain my love. Since you left us high and dry. Since you went away..... Wash away the tears I cry.... I see you in my mind's blue eye.... Ain't going to forget.....My love...Never.... It's raining now. It's raining now upon my brow. Oh..oh....Oh..oh....Oh..oh. Low pitched and dense my sorrow sings..... The bell that solemnly rings..... No gentle mist to envelope me.... Lose me....in the fog..... Lose me.......!
4.	A song 06:20	lyrics	buy track
A SONG Our hearts are heavy..... In darkened places we falter. Sing high the song that purifies The soul engulfed by murky waters. The sigh of dawning.... A silent whisper surrounding. The wings of night...alighting...softly rising. Whimpering sun....morning is sounding. There is a vague stirring.... Not pin-downable. It alludes and is alluring. It enchants and dances In the air we breathe. There is a gentle lulling Almost discernable. It appears and disappears In the mist existing In the air we breathe. There is a waterfall calling Sharp upon the wind. It sings and is bringing Fine melodies that sigh In the air we breathe. Our hearts are heavy..... In darkened places we falter. Sing high the song that purifies The soul engulfed by murky waters.
5.	Calling from the roof top 06:01	lyrics	buy track
CALLING FROM THE ROOF TOP Calling from the roof top.... Oh...true love of mine. Falling from the rope across time. Rivulets of tears burn a gulley round my heart. A circular ravine of boiling brine. A single lilac-tinted petal Seats a golden butterfly. The pendulum can trace the purpling plume. A greying mist coils tightly in an atmosphere no less divine Than memories that linger in this room!
6.	Windmills of your mind 05:20	lyrics	buy track
WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND Round - Like a circle in a spiral. Like a wheel within a wheel. Never ending or beginning... On an ever spinning reel. Like a snowball down a mountain, Or a carnival balloon. Like a carousel that's turning... Running rings around the moon. Like a clock who's hands are sweeping Past the minutes of its face. Like the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space. Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.
7.	Improvisation 08:49		buy track
8.	Sound on stone 11:04	lyrics	buy track
SOUND ON STONE Oh....Oh....the earth..... Oh....Oh....the earth. How many have seated here.... Lamenting? How many...whispering.... Singing out.... Sound on stone? Sound on stone. Who stood alone? Who stood enraptured? How many echoes call... Sharp on the breeze.... Through sheltering leaves? How many reverberate here? How many? Oh....the earth. Unseen spirits entangling boughs. Threads of fern fronds Envelop the silent watcher. Turbulent air... Repairing with grace.... The damage there! Sound on stone... Sound on stone... Sound on stone!

about

"Sound On Stone is an act of love comparable to Alice Coltrane’s completion of tracks she and John had worked on together before his death. The results are profoundly moving, full of beauty and surprise." - Stewart Smith. THE WIRE

"Anyone who ever saw the two perform together will have been struck by the depth of their mutuality both as musicians and as partners. Sound on Stone is, inevitably, a poignant reflection of a true Couple in Spirit." - JAZZWISE

"A truly extraordinary piece..... The sound of healing." - Lois Wilson, MOJO

"I find this music to be consistently spiritual, uplifting, powerful and transcendent." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery NYC

"Sound On Stone is an act of love comparable to Alice Coltrane’s completion of tracks she and John had worked on together before his death. The results are profoundly moving, full of beauty and surprise." - Stewart Smith. THE WIRE

"Anyone who ever saw the two perform together will have been struck by the depth of their mutuality both as musicians and as partners. Sound on Stone is, inevitably, a poignant reflection of a true Couple in Spirit." - JAZZWISE

"A truly extraordinary piece..... The sound of healing." - Lois Wilson, MOJO

"I find this music to be consistently spiritual, uplifting, powerful and transcendent." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery NYC

During 2019 Keith, Julie and myself had discussed the idea of a new Couple In Spirit album for Discus Music. Rather than choosing one of the many possible live recordings of the duo, Keith and Julie were keen to make a new multi tracked studio recording, something they had not done for 30 years. The studio was booked for Spring 2020, and the project was opened for advance subscribers (whose generous contributions were quickly gathered, and who are listed elsewhere in these notes). The New Year arrived, lockdown kicked in, Keith’s already fragile health deteriorated, and tragically we lost Keith in the Summer of that year. Our plan unravelled.

Julie and I spent the next period concentrating on the issue of Keith’s choral work The Monk Watches The Eagle, a project which had been very dear to Keith’s heart, but during this time Julie conceived the idea that the planned Couple In Spirit recording could be completed in a different way. Several unissued live recordings of Keith’s solo concerts were available to us, and Julie’s plan was to use these as a basis for her own multi tracked music for voices and percussion.

Time passed, Covid issues still prevented us from quickly completing our already overdue JTMA Ensemble album Illusion, and it was not until 2022 that we were able to pick up the threads of Couple In Spirit with anything like clear heads. While the studio work itself was technically much simpler than the massive JTMA project we had just completed, Julie had to dig deep into her every reserve of strength and determination in order to make these recordings. We hope and believe that we have done justice to the music. Our heartfelt thanks go to our friends who made the recordings of Keith’s music available to us. – Martin Archer, November 2022

credits

released February 5, 2023

Keith Tippett – piano, zither, voice, music boxes and percussion.
Julie Tippetts – voice, zither, music boxes and percussion.

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