‘The Promise of Meat’ (Anat Ben David and Anna Dennis)
‘The Promise of Meat’ was composed and performed with Anna Dennis by vocally improvising
fragments from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Beginning as a narrative song (using
Golding’s descriptive scenes of the jungle), it gradually degenerates into eloquent chaos, the
slow tribal thud evoking an atmosphere of imminent violence, with Dennis’s soprano sonically
mapping the landscape like a kind of organic synthesiser.
lyrics
The air here was dark too,
And the creepers dropped their ropes
Like the rigging of foundered ships.
The tree trunks and the creepers lost in green dusk
Thirty feet above and all about was the undergrowth
Shrank at the cry with a hiss X3 eeeeee
Of an indrawn breath,
2:20 (the Whine)
2:30 Like the rigging of founded ships/insects
Becoming less a hunter than a furtive thing,
and his breath…
3:16 Aaaaromatic bushed a bole of meat and light
03:25 the promis the promis… of meat/Ape-like among the tangle
Ape-like among the tangle of trees
Hard patter of hoofs, castanet sound, (uncommunicative forest)
And the surge of blood:
The promise of meat
04:29 more oppressive than the heat, the whine of insects,
04:43A harsh cry that seemed to come out
05:00
More oppressive than the heat, X4
the whine of insects,X2
Dark aromatic bushes, a bowl of heat and light.
uncommunicative forest
more oppressive than the heat, the whine of insects,
The air here was dark too, and the creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships. The whine
The tree trunks and the creepers lost in green dusk
Thirty feet above and all about was the undergrowth
Shrank at the cry with a hiss X3
Of indrawn breath,
(in the afternoon sunlight)
07:15
Ape-like among the tangle of trees
Hard patter of hoofs, castanet sound,
And the surge of blood
The promise of meat
08:42: among the tangle of trees
million million…
A harsh cry seems to come out of the abyss
credits
from THE PROMISE OF MEAT,
released April 15, 2021
Anat Ben David and Anna Dennis, Daniel Walton- Trumpet
Dr Anat Ben-David explores the freedom of live improvisation combined with traditional methods of musical composition. Her
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