Gordon Bok - Another Land Made of Water '1979

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“Im not really sure what this is; I do know that it is a study in
impermanence, and I think it behooves us all to study impermanence very
carefully, these days. And its a story about a storm on an island, where I was
young.“
- Gordon Bok

Another Land Made of Water is perhaps the most developed example of Gordon
Bok’s experiments combining spoken-word storytelling, poetry, and
sweeping musical arrangements inspired by Anglo-American traditional music and
maritime song. Thought of best as a concept album or a cantefable, Another
Land... is an obscure, personal narrative of an ethereal and almost otherworldly
encounter between the narrator and a group of “sea-people.” The
music, recorded by a large group of professional and non-professional musicians
in Bok’s circle, includes both family members and familiar performers
from the Folk-Legacy label (Ann Muir, Ed Trickett). It is rich and warm,
instrumental and choral, and at times sung in an invented language of the sea
people. A truly unique release, Another Land... presents Bok at his most
creative, fanciful, and wistful.

Tracklist: 
1.01 - Gordon Bok - The Island (7:16) 
1.02 - Gordon Bok - Sagudana (3:50) 
1.03 - Gordon Bok - Watertime (5:36) 
1.04 - Gordon Bok - Namana Seira (3:22) 
1.05 - Gordon Bok - Trading (3:43) 
1.06 - Gordon Bok - Song for Vela (5:32) 
1.07 - Gordon Bok - Southwest Wind (4:20) 
1.08 - Gordon Bok - Tilderai / Lidalan (4:00) 
1.09 - Gordon Bok - Storm Passing (3:54) 
1.10 - Gordon Bok - The Wind Calling (5:02)

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