John Patrick Elliott - February Songs (2025) Hi Res

February is a dark and mysterious month I’m often guilty of wishing away as winter drags on and we get impatient for spring. These songs are all looking for the redemptive beauty of this magical month with its frozen landscapes and ancient rituals of purification, honouring the dead, epiphanies, rebirth...

February Songs is for anyone who, like me, tends to get stuck in the Solmonath (‘Mud Month’ - Old English), or a bit lost beneath лютий (Ukrainian, the ‘Month of Hard Frost’), and for anyone who needs reminding that it is the month of ‘únor’ in Czech - a time of the river ice sinking as it thaws…new life is about to begin.