This musical and visual statement from Hayden Thorpe is fascinating. The song "Ness" starts with a spoken word section from a 2018 prose poem book of the same name by nature/landscape poet and author Robert Macfarlane. The "Ness" in the title is actually Orford Ness, a 10-mile stretch of shingle spit running along the Suffolk coast in Great Britain. This spot was used in both World Wars and the Cold War as a testing site for weapons and various types of radar, with many of the military buildings known as "pagodas" in ruins but still standing.
Thorpe says:
"It might be easy to think of this album as a less personal one, but my personhood was carried in Ness and in-turn, Ness in me. The same lifeforce that so possessed Robert Macfarlane to write the book carried forward like an electrical current. Ness is uniquely qualified to teach us of what has been and what can be. It is the place where weapons developers learnt how to train the sun’s energy onto those we disagree with. Today, amid new horrors and hostilities, Ness stands as a poignant reminder of those end-of-days-ways and the restorative powers of the natural world."
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