Lost In The Cedar Wood [LP] (Transparent Green Vinyl)

Johnny Flynn - Lost In The Cedar Wood [LP] (Transparent Green Vinyl)

Johnny and Robert began work on the album in the first weeks of the pandemic, wanting to make music that sang of those dangerous, disorienting spring days; when birdsong was brighter -- and the sense of bewilderment more powerful -- than any of us had known before. They drew inspiration in part from The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving work of world literature; an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia that contains the earliest version of the Flood Myth. To Johnny and Robert, Gilgamesh resonated eerily with the present moment -- and it catalysed their song-writing. For Gilgamesh is a story of friendship, love, loss, grief, bad governance and good dreaming; of natural disaster and environmental crisis. It also contains the first recorded act of human destruction of the natural world: when Gilgamesh and Enkidu travel to the Sacred Cedar Wood, slay the guardian spirit of the forest, and cut down the trees with their axes, thereby bringing catastrophe upon themselves. Tracklist Ten Degrees of Strange Ten Degrees of Strange The World to Come The World to Come Gods and Monsters Gods and Monsters Bonedigger Bonedigger I Can't Swim There I Can't Swim There Nether Nether Flood in the Desert Flood in the Desert Tree Rings Tree Rings Enkidu Walked Enkidu Walked Home and Dry Home and Dry Ferryman Ferryman