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The Northern Siren

by Eleanor Conlon & Rosie Moon

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Here is a life 03:57
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The map of loneliness 03:32
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3.
A silk merchant 04:12
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It would be good to be a stone 02:37
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The smallest spark of hope 03:58
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A place without walls 02:31
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The bargain is struck 04:07
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Clouds with thoughts 03:27
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In and out 03:17
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Fate flies in circles 02:04
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To begin again 03:59
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The Northern Siren 04:33
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13.
The siren song calls 01:57
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Need is a whirlpool 02:39
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A lighthouse with the lights out 04:50
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Breathe the tide together 05:02
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Sea change 02:20
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To catch the uncatchable 02:50
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A true love knot 03:52
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A wild thing that will always stay wild 04:31
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21.
Sea and sky and silence 03:34
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From visionary poet Eleanor Conlon and renowned double-bassist Rosie Moon, The Northern Siren is an epic narrative duet that merges experimental musicianship and soaring spoken word performance in a haunting, thrilling, contemporary folk romance.

Through Conlon’s extraordinary voice, which surges from seething whispers and sensuous moans to towering, growling, tempestuous howls, The Northern Siren follows a doomed heroine from the cloying claustrophobia of the city out into the wave-battered wildness of
herself.

She is ushered on her way by Moon’s virtuosic playing, which sees the double-bass transform and metamorphose from a rich and resonant bowed instrument into a pumelling percussive partner, imitating alarms, trains, rain, the human voice and the ethereal.

Between Conlon’s poetry, evoking Kate Tempest, Langston Hughes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Seamus Heaney, and Moon’s playing, representing a masterclass in experimentation encompassing baroque, contemporary, folk and jazz, The Northern Siren is a singular, mythic odyssey.

A two-woman orchestra, the pair summon a storm of fragility, mystery, tragedy and fatal desire in a surging siren song, exploding the tensions between transient modernity and the eternal enchantment of the tides…

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released September 4, 2020

Lyrics, Vocals and Drums by Eleanor Conlon, Music and Double Bass by Rosie Moon. Produced by Sean Hargreaves at North Seven Studios.

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Eleanor Conlon & Rosie Moon London, UK

A touring two-piece comprising poet/vocalist Eleanor Conlon and acclaimed double-bassist Rosie Moon, based in South East England.

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