View basket “This Side” has been added to your basket. Paul's picks Lost in the Cedar Wood Johnny Flynn SKU: TRANS541X Barcode: 196006390006 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Transgressive Released Date: 8th October 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 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. Johnny and Robert wrote the album between March 2020 and February 2021, during a year in which we all wandered unsure of our path, lost in the cedar wood. The songs were composed in large part as a correspondence, through a back-and-forth of notebook pages, voice-recordings and WhatsApp-messages, at a time when lockdowns made meeting in person impossible. The result is an album at once urgent and ancient, which fuses poetry, landscape, myth and music into something unique. These are songs that ring with hope, love and sadness –– and one need not know anything about The Epic of Gilgamesh to be touched by them. Artist Johnny Flynn Genre Folk Label Transgressive Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code , Includes Poster Condition New Country UK Track Listings Ten Degrees of Strange The World to Come Gods and Monsters Bonedigger I Can’t Swim There Nether Flood in the Desert Tree Rings Enkidu Walked Home and Dry Ferryman Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Johnny Flynn and more from Folk View Product Quick View Johnny Flynn Sillion Folk | Transgressive | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 21st March 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Flynn Sillion £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Transgressive SKU: TRANS269X Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 21st March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Black Twig Pickers, The Friends Peace Americana / Country | VHF | 1LP Released 2nd April 2021 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Black Twig Pickers, The Friends Peace £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: VHF SKU: VHF153 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd April 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Laura Gibson Empire Builder Folk | City Slang | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 1st April 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Laura Gibson Empire Builder £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50091LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Glenn Jones The Wanting Americana / Country | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th September 2011 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Glenn Jones The Wanting £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL271LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th September 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Richard Osborn Endless Folk | Tomkins Square | 1LP Released 27th January 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Richard Osborn Endless £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Tomkins Square SKU: TSQ5340 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pete Seeger Where Have All The Flowers Gone? 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