Sunkings - Tongues of Fungus

[dewf]

I guess this isn't really psytrance, but I'm sure many of you are familiar with Sunkings' track "Tongues of Fungus" off of their album "Soul Sleeping"

 

I reeeally wanted to know what this sample is from, and thus began a long (but intermittent) search.

 

Of course, for all I know, the physical album contained credits which described the source, but I never had the physical album. And Blue Room USA is long dead...

 

Anyhow, the words are from a poem by the Welsh poet R.S. Thomas, called "Priest and Peasant"

 

The poem was read and recorded by Richard Burton, the actor (amazing voice!!)

 

Here is the poem (odd punctuation from the original):

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You are ill, Davies, ill in mind

An old canker, to your kind

Peculiar, has laid waste the brain's

Potential richness in delight

And beauty; and your body grows

Awry like an old thorn for lack

Of the soil's depth; and sickness there

Uncurls slowly its small tongues

Of fungus that shall, thickening, swell

And choke you, while your few leaves

Are green still.

 

And so you work

In the wet fields and suffer pain

And loneliness as a tree takes

The night's darkness, the day's rain

While I watch you, and pray for you,

And so increase my small store

Of credit in the bank of God,

Who sees you suffer and me pray

And touches you with the sun's ray,

That heals not, yet blinds my eyes

And seals my lips as Job's were sealed

Imperiously in the old days.

[lumpi]

Damn, I just turned the whole room upside down just to find this CD , but there´s no information on what you´re searching for... sorry

[dewf]

Damn, I just turned the whole room upside down just to find this CD , but there´s no information on what you´re searching for... sorry 

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hehe... no, you see, I already found it. I guess the way I structured my post, it seemed like I was still looking for it. But the sample at the beginning of the song is the actor Richard Burton reading a poem by R.S. Thomas. Took me forever though!! I was just curious if the album itself actually mentioned the sample source-- so I guess it didn't. Thanks for looking though!

 

cheers

-d

[lumpi]

Aah, now I got it

[Otto Matta]

Holy shit, I was wondering if I'd ever find out who that poet was. Absolutely nothing comes up in a Google search except this and another Psynews thread, but this is the first time I've read this one. It's one of the few poems I have memorized, and have recited it to myself too many times to count. So powerful. Now I know, and have been reading more of his great stuff online, and have ordered his works.

 

Thanks, dewf, if you're still around (which it appears you're not, since your only two posts are in this thread).

[dewf]

Otto Matta: you're welcome. you're right, I'm not active around here, but I just now found this thread again, years later, because I ran across the original recording on youtube and thought I'd share:

 

 

cheers,

-d