Gordon Bok - Another Land Made of Water (1979) [Hi-Res]

“I'm not really sure what this is; I do know that it is a study in impermanence, and I think it behooves us all to study impermanence very carefully, these days. And it's a story about a storm on an island, where I was young.“
- Gordon Bok

Another Land Made of Water is perhaps the most developed example of Gordon Bok’s experiments combining spoken-word storytelling, poetry, and sweeping musical arrangements inspired by Anglo-American traditional music and maritime song. Thought of best as a concept album or a cantefable, Another Land... is an obscure, personal narrative of an ethereal and almost otherworldly encounter between the narrator and a group of “sea-people.” The music, recorded by a large group of professional and non-professional musicians in Bok’s circle, includes both family members and familiar performers from the Folk-Legacy label (Ann Muir, Ed Trickett). It is rich and warm, instrumental and choral, and at times sung in an invented language of the sea people. A truly unique release, Another Land... presents Bok at his most creative, fanciful, and wistful.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Gordon Bok - The Island (7:16)
1.02 - Gordon Bok - Sagudana (3:50)
1.03 - Gordon Bok - Watertime (5:36)
1.04 - Gordon Bok - Namana Seira (3:22)
1.05 - Gordon Bok - Trading (3:43)
1.06 - Gordon Bok - Song for Vela (5:32)
1.07 - Gordon Bok - Southwest Wind (4:20)
1.08 - Gordon Bok - Tilderai / Lidalan (4:00)
1.09 - Gordon Bok - Storm Passing (3:54)
1.10 - Gordon Bok - The Wind Calling (5:02)