The Spell by Fresh Handmade Collective

The Spell is cast for a perfect foot treatment. If you've come in off the street past urban blackbirds singing in the rain and rush hour buses carrying tired commuters home, we hope to massage the pressure away and lift you up off your feet so you can fly away across roof tops and fire escapes to join migrating swallows and swifts returning home on the coastal road.

"Migration on foot or wing is an annual theme for bird sound recordists. We run around these spring soundscapes and autumn cries. The dry song of a yellowhammer encourages the listener to walk away from the maddening crowd." - Mark Constantine

"This was a collaborative effort with contributions from all the musicians involved in the spa music collective - we wanted to write original music themed around moving forward and travelling light on your feet. It takes you along coastal paths, past childhood oaks and hidden streams to the remote places where ravens and buzzards call." - Simon Emmerson

Physical CD - https://uk.lush.com/products/spa-music/spell-cd

Lush Spa Treatment - https://uk.lush.com/products/spa-treatments/spell-spa-treatment

Tracklist

1.	The Spell	3:33

2.	Blue Tit, Yellowhammer, Corn Bunting and a Partridge	0:39

3.	Coastal Road	7:11

4.	Swallows and Swifts	1:55

5.	Sweet Polly Oliver / Hermit Thrush	8:13

6.	Walk Back	6:04

7.	Walking To The Shore / Chesil Beach	5:14

8.	End of the Day / Urban Blackbird	6:52

9.	Fire Escapes	4:06

10.	Ravens and Buzzards	0:38

11.	Where Ravens Feed	6:43

12.	Nocturne	4:31

Credits

released June 12, 2020

Musicians: Ted Barnes (guitar track 1), Eliza Carthy (vocals, fiddle, tenor guitar), Martin Carthy (guitar track 6), Simon Emmerson (guitars and cittern), Ted Emmerson (guitar track 3), Richard Evans (bass, guitars, keyboards), Ali Friend (guitar track 1, double bass, thumb piano, glockenspiel, vocals and toys), Andy Gangadeen (drums), Simon Massey (programming, extra keyboards), Barney Morse-Brown (vocals, cello), Sheema Mukherjee (vocals, sitar), Ben Murray (vocals, piano, accordion), Jackie Oates (vocals, fiddle, viola), Simon Richmond (piano, keyboards, programming, sound design).

Track 11 contains lyrics form Where Ravens Feed, Graeme Miles, Fellside Records.

Track 12 orchestral arrangement Richard Evans. Strings recorded in Budapest. Conducted by Peter Pejtsik.

Mixed by Simon Massey, except for track 7 and 11 mixed by Richard Evans.

All bird sound recorded by The Sound Approach:
Mark Constantine, Magnus Robb, Arnoud van den Berg.

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