Summary: <p>Folk collective Spell Songs was born as a musical companion to the two books of meditations on nature by writer Robert MacFarlane and artist and naturalist Jackie Morris. The recordings are tender naturalist-chamber-folk spell-poems of wildness, beauty, loss, and hope, inspired by the creatures, art and language in <a href="https://www.thelostwords.org/lostwordsbook/">The Lost Words</a> and <a href="https://www.thelostwords.org/lostspellsbook/">The Lost Spells</a> books. Each spell is a summoning of sorts, conjuring an animal, bird, tree or flower - from Barn Owl to Red Fox, Oak to Bramble, Jay to Jackdaw - with which we share our lives and landscapes.</p> <p>The musicians wrote together on their “open plan” of musical ideas for <em>Spell Songs II:</em> <em>Let The Light In</em>, combining their guitar, harp, cello, keyboard, woodwind, kora, percussion and vocal harmonies. Spoken voice, whispers, accents, dialects, native languages, birdsong, the bark of foxes, the soft sound of a moth’s wing, the sound of a children’s climate strike; all increase the intimacy and power of the musical world conjured by<em> Spell Songs II.</em> Spell Songs performs excerpts from the new album; and Scottish singer Julie Fowlis and Senegalese-born kora virtuoso Seckou Keita chat about the project from London. -<em> Caryn Havlik</em></p> <p>Set list: "Heron," "Daisy," "Thrift"</p> <p>Watch "Heron": </p> <p>Watch "Daisy":</p> <p>Watch "Thrift":</p> <p>"Oak":</p> <p>"Bramble":</p>
