The Northern Siren
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From visionary poet Eleanor Conlon and renowned double-bassist Rosie Moon, The Northern Siren is an epic narrative duet that merges experimental musicianship and soaring spoken word performance in a haunting, thrilling, contemporary folk romance.​
The album is available to buy now through Bandcamp, iTunes, and Amazon Music, and is also available through all major streaming services.
Through Conlon’s extraordinary voice, which surges from seething whispers and sensuous moans to towering, growling, tempestuous howls, The Northern Siren follows a doomed heroine from the cloying claustrophobia of the city out into the wave-battered wildness of herself.
She is ushered on her way by Moon’s virtuosic playing, which sees the double-bass transform and metamorphose from a rich and resonant bowed instrument into a pumelling percussive partner, imitating alarms, trains, rain, the human voice and the ethereal.
Between Conlon’s poetry, evoking Kate Tempest, Langston Hughes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Seamus Heaney, and Moon’s playing, representing a masterclass in experimentation encompassing baroque, contemporary, folk and jazz, The Northern Siren is a singular, mythic odyssey.
A two-woman orchestra, the pair summon a storm of fragility, mystery, tragedy and fatal desire in a surging siren song, exploding the tensions between transient modernity and the eternal enchantment of the tides…
From visionary poet Eleanor Conlon and renowned double-bassist Rosie Moon, The Northern Siren is an epic narrative duet that merges experimental musicianship and soaring spoken word performance in a haunting, thrilling, contemporary folk romance.
