A Sense of Doubt blog post #1551 - That one thing - Ancient Trees - Music 1905.20

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1551 - That one thing - Ancient Trees - Music 1905.20

Welcome to THAT ONE THING for the next five days, I am setting up my blog entries in advance and publishing them. They will all be titled THAT ONE THING as I share a single thing, which after today will be just an image and a few short remarks.

This week's series of THAT ONE THING is a respite from daily blogging as I put the finishing touches on my presentation on Jung, Middlesex, and gender and then take a day to recover.

Here's my official THAT ONE THING boilerplate:

THAT ONE THING BOILERPLATE: I am creating a new feature called THAT ONE THING for a series of blog posts that are set up ahead of time allowing me to take a break from the daily blogging grind to finish a project take a vacation, or for whatever reason I deem necessary. I like this idea better than setting up a series of complicated shares in advance. THAT ONE THING features an image, a song, a thing, and a few short (VERY SHORT) remarks about it. I feel this allows me better value than a share on which I do not comment. So that's the idea. ENGAGE. Here we go.

https://ayearinthecountry.co.uk/the-watchers-preorder/

The Watchers: Preorder now. Released 7th June 2019. Amongst Britain’s trees there are thought to be over 3,000 ancient oaks - those which date back 400 years or more - and of those trees more than 115 are 800 to 1,000 years old or more. They are part of a tree population that also includes ash trees that have lived for hundreds of years and a yew that is estimated to be between 2000-3000 years old or possibly many thousands of years older and that some consider to be the oldest living thing in Europe. These are living organisms which could be seen to be undertaking a very stately, still form of time travel, to be watchers and observers over the passing of the years, centuries and even millennia. Some of them have lived through invasions of their island home undertaken by wooden ships, sword and arrow, the final days and passing of the old ways and the times of magic and witchcraft, the coming of the industrial revolution and the dawning of the digital era. Throughout it all they have stood by and watched the endeavours of humans and the encroaching of their lands as the tales passed through traditional folklore evolved into the sometimes dizzying swathes of today’s cultural landscape, with these “mighty oaks” and their companions now coming to be living amongst the invisible hubbub of modern day wirelessly transmitted communications. The numbers of these longstanding inhabitants of this once largely green and unpaved land have dwindled due to the march of progress but a few stalwartly continue their journeys through time. The Watchers reflects on those journeys and these ancient trees’ residing over growing layers of history. Features music and accompanying text on the tracks by: Grey Frequency, Field Lines Cartographer, Widow's Weeds ft Kitchen Cynics, Depatterning, Phonofiction, Pulselovers, Sproatly Smith, Vic Mars, The Heartwood Institute and Howlround. "Despite being separate species with differing characteristic in their leaf, acorn and preferred soil type, the English Oak (Quercus robur) and the Irish Oak (Quercus petraea) have indistinguishable DNA. This is likely due to millions of years of cross breeding which has encoded hidden genetic expressions. 'Ook/Dair' traces these hereditary ghosts creeping in the biological background while expressing a coded comradeship between the species which have survived across time." Depatterning's text which accompanies their track Ook/Dair.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1905.20 - 10:10

- Days ago = 1416 days ago

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