Name: Sinking Sand
Duration: P00H03M21S
Description: Sinking Sand has been commissioned as part of the Entangled Festival: a week long celebration of arts, environment and technologies, inspired by the ways in which places, people and other kinds of life are connected.

Sinking Sand

by Sarah Smout

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Sinking Sand has been commissioned as part of the Entangled Festival: a week long celebration of arts, environment and technologies, inspired by the ways in which places, people and other kinds of life are connected.

lyrics

It's all hanging in the balance my friend
We can't undo all the damage we've done
but we still have our gift to change things
the time is now, no time for waiting

Ch.
We are in the sinking sands
of what we've taken
We can write our story if we
listen to the tide

Our gaze held by the shimmering globe
We watch as into the darkness it goes
Gravestones wait to meet the seabed
Will my children live to meet you?

Ch.

Is this an ending where land meets the sea?
Where lines mark the landscape
sand-rippled underfoot
with sea-snails and weed,
the cliff-edge graveyard hanging onto roots
coaxed into the vastness of blue
no line stays the same for long
we must watch where we tread
as waters rise and edges shift...

Ch x2

...cover and resurface old stories
buried in the sand
where water was once land
we cannot be still in this place
there is time to change
we cannot stay the same

credits

released September 24, 2021
Written and performed by Sarah Smout
Produced by Alex Johnston-Seymour
Mixed by Gren Bartley at Wooden Walls Productions
Mastered by Stephen Kerrison at Tall Trees Audio Mastering

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Sarah Smout Skipton, UK

Sarah spins uniquely beautiful melodies on cello into her poetry-driven, landscape inspired lyrics, creating a truly original sound.
She currently performs her solo show, Eyjar, about her musical journey to Iceland by boat, via Orkney Shetland and the Faroes. She is also collaborating with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to make music videos in the Wild. sarahsmoutmusic.co.uk ... more

discography

At Sea

Oct 2023
Sinking Sand

Sep 2021
Atlas

Jun 2021
Arctic Ground

Oct 2017

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