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Commissioned by Walkspace for the British Council supported project Parallel Walking:Between Here and There, Between the Seen and the Unseen. Developed in collaboration/conversation with Jalan Gembira in Yogyakarta, a female collective of walking artists.
Ode to Chad is a piece written in response to an exploration and wade of the Chad Brook, reflecting on the theme of public/private and who owns the city?
lyrics
You’re not the People’s Brook, Bab, but follow you I will.
To walk your banks from source to mouth, a joy and wondrous thrill.
but
you’re owned
not free to roam.
Through town house mansion gardens
You wend mysteriously.
I trespass to be near you
Won’t you reveal yourself to me?
Under railway and canal, you elude my yearning Drift.
In allotments you shy from Public’s eye, but I know you exist.
Sigh, to feel your pebbles on my feet, your secrets I will keep.
You’re not my Brook, Bab, but wade in you I will.
Beating heart be still.
Tempestuous, you spill and burst your banks
Protection from the Real Estate Machine. Revenge.
They’ve fenced you off my love
To elite eyes only you are seen.
O Bab, I want to set you free, we’ll surge with wild abandon
Our minnow love will grow to carp, your waters I will stand in!
Our city is off limits though, you sculpt so privately
It’s parcelled up and portioned off, withheld, but silently.
credits
released May 2, 2022
Written, edited and recorded by Bethany Kay
Vocal production by Hamish Campbell-Legg
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