The Blossom

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The Shepherd's Calendar by The Blossom, released 01 May 20151. A winter hunt2. The black dove3. Song of the hare4. Two trees in Lyrewood5. A war among the flowers6. The melancholy shepherd7. Lord of the marsh8. Once the lady9. The feast of pavilions10. Rust upon the rose11. Hobbinol12. Welcome winterThe album title, and the structure of twelve songs one for each month of the year, are inspired by Edmund Spenser’s "The Shepheardes Calender" (1579), and the themes of the songs are similarly pastoral. Like Spenser’s poems, they seem to treat of rustic concerns, the animals of the field, the lives and loves of shepherds and the beauties of the English countryside. But the songs are all allegories and myths of love and hate, faith and folly, joy and misery, magic, merriment and murder. "Song of the hare", for example, describes a great battle between two mighty animals and the antics of the beasts around them, while "Lord of the marsh" is a story-song in the tradition of the "Child ballads", telling of the abduction of a girl by a magical lord disguised as a pedlar, and its aftermath. Other songs touch on the mysteries of memory and the fleeting of time. The lyrics of the songs are included in a thirty-two-page booklet issued with the CD, illustrated with a selection of beautiful images stolen from books of the late romantic period (around 1820–1850).

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