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Easter (Katharine Tynan)

from When I Rise Up by Loah

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[Loah] "This is the last song I wrote - the folk melody tumbled out of me like a book from a shelf. It was written slightly earlier, in the decade before (circa 1907), but I find the message of Easter prescient - the preoccupation with the defeating of Death, right before the world is ravaged by war and pestilence. Many poems of the time are Christianity-themed as the religion was deeply embedded into politics and culture. It is fascinating to see artists of that era use biblical landmarks to express wider themes in a way that happens very differently from today’s artists. I had to get my dear friend Bob Gallagher's voice on this. He has a haunting and unique, ancient quality to his voice that I love and it worked so well on this."

lyrics

Bring flowers to strew His way,
Yea, sing, make holiday;
Bid young lambs leap,
And earth laugh after sleep.
For now He cometh forth
Winter flies to the north,
Folds wings and cries
Amid the bergs and ice.

Yea, Death, great Death is dead,
And Life reigns in his stead,
Cometh the Athlete
New from dead Death’s defeat.

Cometh the Wrestler,
But Death he makes no stir,
Utterly spent and done,
And all his kingdom gone.

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from When I Rise Up, released December 16, 2021
Music - Loah
Lyrics - Katharine Tynan
Vocals - Loah and Bob Gallagher
Production & Mixing - Cian Finlay
Engineering - Loah and Ber Quinn
Mastering - Ruadhraí Cushnen at Camden Recording Studios

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Loah Dublin, Ireland

Loah is Sallay-Matu Garnett, a singer songwriter of Irish /Sierra Leonian descent. She performs her unique blend of Afro- folksoul across solo projects and with collaborators. In 2020, she returned to her old vocation as a pharmacist to frontline, yet continued to contribute culturally, presenting several music shows and releasing When I Rise Up, an EP of poetry from the 1920s set to music. ... more

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