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The Starlight Night

by Hugo Manuel

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Christ home, 04:24
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I recorded this music between late 2018 and early 2020 using synthesisers, guitar and tape; based on the poem 'The Starlight Night' by Gerard Manley Hopkins. For passive or intent listening.


Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes!
The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies!
Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare!
Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!
Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.

Buy then! bid then! — What? — Prayer, patience, alms, vows.
Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs!
Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!
These are indeed the barn; withindoors house
The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse
Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.

credits

released April 12, 2020

Written by Hugo Manuel
Mastered by Rebecca Huston
Artwork edited from two paintings by Frederic Edwin Church

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Hugo Manuel Oxford, UK

Hugo Manuel is otherwise known as Chad Valley, the name he has been using for the past ten years to release ethereal pop songs.

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