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Pollen, Blood, and Seaspray

from Kraina by Anselm McDonnell

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Text extracts from Sea-bedazzle by Euan Tait © 2021 Commissioned by Anselm McDonnell

“Stephen the archangel takes to the skies of the seas and sweeps all the souls from the deepest rocks and stills their weeping, their unjust ends, and sets them tenderly on the Strand to coo like sea-chickbirds and sing song-comfort to each other until the choke of their drowning is no more. Only shore-children, in their green-woollen hats, in the delight of seashells crunching underfoot, can see them; and their tender, amazed laughter is a mystery to their parents.

All houses are made from the light drawn from human hands, brick dust dissolves as the brickie builds, and brother Keane will come back years later when he is old, afraid and in pain and cry out ‘see!’ And his windows will wink and his facades shimmy-seduce and his slates get blown upright in the strongest winds from the east, just as the lover he came home to, each built day, comforted him by ruffling his hair.

Nothing can comfort Stephen. He has become the sea, and storms are his wings, the shattered heart who witnesses the sinking of the innocent in a great ship, a woolen doll floating on the surface of the December sea, the light as fluorescent as the flesh of houses.

When Stephen hears an old man is dying, he knows that pain like mist burning from the surface of the bay on a day no one could have imagined could be this hot. The houses are long drowned when Stephen leaves the shore. But he is legend-rain every bloomsday. He is light following a dark shower of pollen, of blood, of seaspray.”

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from Kraina, released February 23, 2024
Anselm McDonnell - electronics
Dermot Dunne - accordion
Nicole Rourke - spoken word
Laoise O'Brien & Ben Rawlins - recording engineers

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Anselm McDonnell Belfast, UK

Anselm McDonnell is a composer of Irish/Welsh heritage based in Belfast, who has composed over ninety pieces for orchestra, chamber groups, choirs, soloists and electronics. A diverse range of interests have led to the creation of work in collaboration with rap artists, lighting designers, theologians, poets, filmmakers, improvising musicians, fashion designers, dancers, and actors. ... more

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