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Tribes Of Europe & Second Harmonic Generation - Crab Marsh

from You Don't Speak For Me by Tribes Of Europe & Barbara Stretch

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Tribes of Europe and Second Harmonic Generation come together to produce a short piece that expresses something of their experience of the Fens. Karsten (SHG) did most of the heavy-lifting on this track, choosing, editing and arranging the found sounds, whereas Martin (ToE) waltzed in at the end and added electric cello parts.

Martin says of the track, " Before starting, we spoke for weeks about what aspects of the Fens we wanted to embody. Then, when we finished I suggested the title of 'Crab Marsh', which Karsten liked. Crab Marsh is an area of marshland beside the River Nene about a mile north from where I grew up in Wisbech. It is allegedly haunted. My grandfather claimed to have been knocked off his bike by a strange white light that seemed to wrap itself round his bicycle pedals and stop them from turning, or maybe it was too much Elgoods bitter in The Shipwrights', anyway he'd never travel across it at night after that. Karsten's work got me thinking about the sound of the big Russian ships coming down from the Wash to Wisbech port in the fog during wintertime. The sound of the engines, fog-horns, metal hawsers and chains drifting across the flat land."

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from You Don't Speak For Me, released June 21, 2019
Koehler/Elsey

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Tribes Of Europe Cambridge, UK

Inner and outer space music for the good children of Earth and other planets.

Tribes of Europe is the alter ego of multi-instrumentalist Martin Elsey. Releases have enjoyed support from BBC 6music's Steve Lamacq. Radio 3's Late Junction and a host of specialist shows..

Collaboration is key to ToE's modus operandi, most recently linking up with late-70's feminist-rock iconoclast Barbara Stretch.
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