They Drew My Ship

(with Sheaf+Barley)

2016

Traditional song (re)arranged in collaboration with Sheaf+Barley and sung by Sheaf+Barley

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Acknowledging the non-canonical role that popular song can assume in smuggling narrative and temporal specificity beneath the centuries, Gent, Sheaf+Barley took a range of early English folk songs as their starting point and, extrapolating backwards, ‘discovered’ an episode of Cynethryth’s life previously unknown, passed down through time, protected from orthodox revisionism via regional folk song.

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  • BIO
  • WRITING
  • WORK
  • Mixtape for Julian of Norwich
  • and then, a harrowing
  • This way is very hard, but not insoluble
  • Over the fallow flood
  • Fancies flee away! I'll fear not ...
  • scratching a detail
  • All Us Girls Have Been Dead For So Long
  • In praise of scratching
  • Gewritu Sæcierr Mín Brenting Butan
  • The Balls of Alban
  • fals tru luvvers a'shore...
  • echo
  • Smear (for Cynethryth)
  • Test Body Burden
  • Technically Illiterate, Actually...
  • The Master's Tools Will Never Di...
  • Morass
  • Leaving the Crocodile
  • Multiplex: live
  • Multiplex
  • On the undeath of that criminal queen
  • Worldly affairs...
  • L'Heure Verde: 2nd tasting
  • Stunde Null (After McMurtry)
  • Maegonsaetan
  • They Drew My Ship
  • Round Jean Lanfrey's Place
  • Wiðercwedolu þá Glésincga
  • marine snow
  • Questions for Meliza
  • L'Heure Verde: 1st tasting
  • Green Hour, Green Ray
  • sothfastness... (with sanitizing gel)
  • Sky Burial Performance Afternoon
  • Sky Burial
  • Bad Truth
  • Futurology
  • Desperate Calligraphy

CARL GENT