Searching for the cover, I learned something new: wikipedia says: "The image on the cover is from The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary by Henry Lee, 1887"
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz[1]) is a legendary zoophyte of Central Asia, believed to grow sheep as its fruit.[2] The sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all the plants were gone, both the plant and sheep died.
Although it owed its currency in medieval thought as a way of explaining the existence of cotton, underlying the myth is a real plant, Cibotium barometz, a fern of the genus Cibotium.[2] It was known under various other names including the Scythian Lamb, the Borometz, Barometz and Borametz, the latter three being different spellings of the local word for lamb.[3] The 'lamb' is produced by removing the leaves from a short length of the fern's woolly rhizome. When the rhizome is inverted, it fancifully resembles a woolly lamb with the legs being formed by the severed petiole bases.[2] The Tradescant Museum of Garden History has one under glass.
In his book, The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (1887), Henry Lee describes the legendary lamb as believed to be both a true animal and a living plant. However, he states that some writers believed the lamb to be the fruit of a plant, sprouting forward from melon-like seeds. Others, however, believed the lamb to be a living member of the plant that once separated from it, would perish. The vegetable lamb was believed to have blood, bones, and flesh like that of a normal lamb. It was connected to the earth by a stem, similar to an umbilical cord, that propped the lamb up above ground. The cord could flex downward, allowing the lamb to feed on the grass and plants surrounding it. Once the plants within reach were eaten, the lamb died. It could be eaten, once dead, and its blood supposedly tasted sweet like honey. Its wool was said to be used by the native people of its homeland to make head coverings and other articles of clothing. The only carnivorous animals attracted to the lamb-plant (other than humans) were wolves.
Jordi Savall, the La Folia album - very calming besides very good. iPod has moved on to something by The Baltimore Consort - very nice as well but not as top shelf as Savall.
Streaming from Bandcamp, inspired by the good Mr. GP:
- "Heinali (a moniker of Oleg Shpudeiko) is a composer and sound artist from Kiev, Ukraine. Had no musical education, completely self-taught. Started composing music in 2003. Heinalis sound is generally eclectic, though often described as atmospheric and emotional"
Fancy some Django/Dawg-grass? Recently saw Midnight In Paris and was sufficiently taken with the gypsy jazz guitar song that recurs throughout ( Bistro Fada - $0.49 here at eMu) to search out the artist, Stephane Wrembel, and found this collaboration with David Grisman at eMu, $5.99, Gypsy Rumble - The Stephane Wrembel Trio with David Grisman. Very, very nice - highly recommended.
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Searching for the cover, I learned something new: wikipedia says: "The image on the cover is from The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary by Henry Lee, 1887"
- F*********ck ! - This is good.
Video Games. Which now sounds to me exactly like this picture.
Thanks, Brighternow, for posting this some time back. Very enjoyable.
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...my CD copy of this just arrived.
Some more Heinali:
I love Kickstarter.
Craig
Boris - New Album
I DL'd this in FLAC from Dave Douglas' Greenleaf label, which I like supporting.
NP: Missa Nunca Fue Pena Mayor by de Pe
Did this come off the free @Bandcamp thread? If it's not there, deberia ser, porque esta en Bandcamp, es gratis, y suena muy bien!
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