A Horseradish
Saturday 7th March 2015 6:23pm [Edited]
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The Copper Family - Warlike Seamen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrLfJHWG1lA
This has currency because Bob and Ron Copper's "Traditional Songs From Rottingdean" (1963) has recently been made widely available in this country for the first time in its original album form. To me, Rottingdean is the bit on the end of Brighton - well, four miles to the east of it - with a nice windmill and pitch and putt courses. I know it well. But as any fool knows, there are esoteric connections between the well documented "Copper Family" tradition of Rottingdean and the early folk music collections of Cecil Sharp and many others.
And those connections go further. In the broader context, "Voices of Albion", first screened at the second Portobello Film Festival Annual Film Makers' Convention in 2007, charts the historical origins of many of contemporary and near contemporary left field subcultures such as Spiral Tribe, the Exodus Collective and the Dongas and traces their origins to the Digger and Leveller Movements of the Seventeenth Century.
As is so often the case in life, it is worth mentioning here the dear old de Mandevilles. They were of some relevance being among a number of Templar families who were party to an ancient secret that linked music, landscape and locality together. There was, of course, a direct link between Arthur's Camelot Castle and the de Mandevilles' manor situated in the Barnet Triangle. And those link up via a number of ritual alignments, including Gog and Magog at Totteridge, with Rottingdean. Luckily, not only do some of those alignments form the not insignificant Croydon Triangle but I was Christened on one of its three points in - yes - 1963.
I thank you.
(Beat that Switzerland)