voices #47
◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
here we got:
Pefkin
answering some questions. We have already observed her ambient / drone / experimental work here.
[1. IDEA]
■ The A. O.: The track from “Unfurling” that we prefer is “My breath the sea”. Can you tell us how it came to light?
► Pefkin: I read a book by the Scottish historian Alistair Moffat a few years ago called “In Search of the Saints” which is about the Irish saints who travelled to the Scottish west coast and islands to spread Christianity and find solitude, the most famous being Columba who established a religious community on Iona which stills exists. I’ve wanted to go and visit the beehive cells on the uninhabited Garvellach islands in which some of these monks would meditate in solitude. I’ve not managed to do that so I did the next best thing and wrote a song about it, imagining the passage through the seasons, the loneliness, the winter storms, the trance state, feeling disembodied and fearful. The protagonist in the song no longer knows if he hears his breath or the sea as he prays and meditates in the depths of a winter storm.
[2. CREATION]
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