rake by RAKE

released April 1, 2000

by Spool Music (SPL108)

all pieces improvised by rake:

David Broscoe, alto & tenor saxophones, bassoon, percussion
Jamie Gullikson, drums, percussion, suitcase
Rory Magill, bass, drums, bells, melodica

produced by Paul Bright and rake
with thanks to Bernard Stepien

recorded live to 2-track DAT and mastered by Dave Burnett
at Fanshawe College London Ontario

artwork by Broscoe
rifling by Magill



rifling through the underbrush
bogbird clutterbuck nattleprance gooseneck
whirling tercet ornery thrum
longhaired fiddlebow loping wandercrum
skree of the reedweasel clack of the woodfish
trill flam thrush dram ratamacue

beasts murk and forage comb the wooded floor
unearth decaying soil lift the forest's petticoats
stir her mucky loins for damp treasure wake soft monsters
creatures tilt and wheel
darkness saturates every moist clod
until night's last beast bellows its last long low refrain
falls slain
bleeds its last long slow breath
lost to the siren wail singing night is over
night is over night is over

day break the spell into transluscent mist
red raven and the elephants sleepwalk from the forest
out of night into the veil of morning light
dark as smoke light as gauze concealing and revealing
the stick and stone the simple beasts the air breathing
the warm flush of wind and dreams wandering into unblinking day
scruff bramble thistle heath and heathen dung fog memories
of night's last lost long low reveries