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Mont Sen Mighal - (St Michael's Mount) - Cornwall

from My Mother's Country by Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotters Bequest

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Legend has it that in 495AD fishermen at sea, saw St Michael on the island, which later became a medieval shrine. This song is performed in Cornish.

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Mont Sen Mighal - (St Michael's Mount) - Cornwall
(Cornish language)

Blydhen peswar naw pymp
seyth marner gesys yn bew
moryow serrys hag ebrenn dhuhes
ha’n arvor re bell aves
rag aga sawya

Bysyes yeyn a skravin an ayr
goelyow regyes ewyn du desper
war legh ni a’n givel ena
gans ankov du yn golok
ev a’gan gelow tre

(English translation)

A. D. four ninety five
seven sailors left alive
raging seas and blackened skies
and the coast too far away
to save them.

Cold fingers claw the air
torn sails, black foam, despair
on a ledge we see him there
with oblivion in sight
he calls us home.

credits

from My Mother's Country, released September 1, 1998
Gavin O'Loghlen : Acoustic guitars, drums, bass, percussion, keyboards, D whistle, vocals
Angelee Theodoros : Lead vocals, cello
Jack Brennan : Uilleann pipes
Stephanie Graeber : Violin
Suzannah Graeber : Violin
Music and words written by Gavin O'Loghlen
Cornish translations by Lillian James

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Gavin O'Loghlen Australia

Cotters Bequest is a seven piece progressive Celtic band playing 28 instruments including Highland, Uilleann, Northumbrian and Scottish smallpipes, Irish whistles, violin, cello and accordion wrapped in layers of acoustic and electric guitars, vintage keyboards and rich vocal harmonies.

In the style of "a Celtic King Crimson..a Pink Floyd with bagpipes.. with a sprinkling of Peter Gabriel."
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