{"id":682,"date":"2010-05-19T13:50:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=682"},"modified":"2010-05-19T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:50:56","slug":"ivor-murrell-hears-songs-of-light-and-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ivor-murrell-hears-songs-of-light-and-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivor Murrell hears songs of light and darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Songs of Light and Dark<\/span>
Human Voices<\/span> concert at Halesworth, December 13th 2009<\/span>


It was started as a murmur<\/span>
a memory rising from the cave dark.<\/span>
Welele, Welele, Welele<\/span>
the ululation progressed, so did the singers<\/span>
passing through the listeners<\/span>
weaving them into place, locked<\/span>
in a racial weft of half forgotten fear.<\/span>
A need to placate the unknown grew,<\/span>
welling from unglimpsed depths<\/span>
came reminders of impermanence<\/span>
stripping suppression\u2019s civilised  mask.<\/span>
Each listener gripped by the circle of sound, <\/span>
struggling for emotional control, shaken<\/span>
at the stir of the animal within.<\/span>
Welele, Welele, Welele.<\/span>

In the interval, in the well lit foyer,<\/span>
speech was not readily regained.<\/span>



* Ivor Murrell<\/span> writes “this piece arose from a concert of unaccompanied singing by <\/span>Human Voice<\/span>s led by Helen Chadwick at The Cut in Halesworth last December.  An unexpected and powerful experience. I don\u2019t know what \u2018Welele\u2019 means, it was the name of the piece, and I have not tried to get an interpretation in case it turns out to be something mundane! Since I last contacted you I have been enjoying the vibrancy of poetry in Suffolk, and have more recently launched my own site <\/span>www.versifier.co.uk<\/a> to share my poetry with the images linked to it, please give it a visit.<\/span>

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Songs of Light and DarkHuman Voices concert at Halesworth, December 13th 2009It was started as a murmura memory rising from the cave dark.Welele, Welele, Welelethe ululation progressed, so did the singerspassing through the listenersweaving them into place, lockedin a racial weft of half forgotten fear.A need to placate the unknown grew,welling from unglimpsed depthscame reminders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}