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Our Circle is Contaminated 05:13
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Our Circle Is Contaminated This is not our ice. This is not our weather. Our circle is contaminated. We eat meat needled with toxins, breathe air infected with heat. In the spirit world, the ice is thick again and clean. The drums, dances and stories which held the ice together, have fallen silent. Waves are changing shape. I can no longer draw a map from memory, for the land changes faster than I can blink. At night the ocean screams. We sit up, afraid to fall asleep, afraid we'll wake with water where our lungs should be. Three moons ago, I came face to face with Nanook, as the last light thumbed its way across the sky. I could smell his rotting teeth. His eyes were all fear. He lay down before me and died. The old ways disappeared with his final breath. I left him there, rocking gently on melting ice, black water licking at his nose. Our Circle Is Contaminated is written from the perspective of an Inuit who is fast recognising, with terror and great sadness, that the North he has always known is rapidly weakening. That the 'warming' is taking from him everything, everything he has always respected, everything he has always needed to survive.
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The People Who Change Nature 04:30
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The People Who Change Nature Do you know what we are afraid of, white man? Do you know what makes us shake in our mothers arms? We are afraid of your power. It pulses like a light too bright. We are afraid of how you attack the portrait of a land like it has always been yours and yours only. We are afraid the maps we have memorised will have changed so much it will take more than one generation to memorise the new inlets and coves. We are afraid because you have silenced our shaman. Now he looks at the land like he's never seen it before. We are afraid of your separation from the animal world. You people, who change nature, your separation is all too complete. There is no going back for you. The north will not be on your side again.

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* This is a preview of Arctic Fever*

Full Album can be found here:
katiemetcalfe.bandcamp.com/album/arctic-fever


Arctic Fever is a spoken word/dark ambient album featuring the poetry of Katie Metcalfe intertwined with the music of Crown of Asteria.

Centered around the thawing of the Arctic, Arctic Fever portrays how the catastrophic changes are impacting the peoples, flora and fauna of the far north.

While the listener will have an insight into what is happening now in the north, they will also have the opportunity to envisage what life was like at the top of the world, before the Arctic was cursed with whisky, organised religion, diseases and heat.

Arctic Fever is a homage to the Arctic, and all who dwell there, who are experiencing, in real time, the sea ice lessen, the permafrost weaken and the north they have forever know disappear.

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released November 16, 2017

Katie Metcalfe-Spoken Word/Concept/Lyrics/Artwork
Meghan-Music/Artwork

Katie's Work can be found here: www.katiemetcalfewriting.com

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