![]() ![]() ![]() The songs were composed in large part as a correspondence, through a back-and-forth of notebook pages, voice-recordings and WhatsApp-messages, at a time when lockdowns made meeting in person impossible. Johnny and Robert wrote the album between March 2020 and February 2021, during a year in which we all wandered unsure of our path, lost in the cedar wood. ![]() ItĪlso contains the first recorded act of human destruction of the natural world: when Gilgamesh and Enkidu travel to the Sacred Cedar Wood, slay the guardian spirit of the forest, and cut down the trees with their axes, thereby bringing catastrophe upon themselves. For Gilgamesh is a story of friendship, love, loss, grief, bad governance and good dreaming of natural disaster and environmental crisis. Robert, Gilgamesh resonated eerily with the present moment –– and it catalysed their song-writing. ![]() They drew inspiration in part from The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving work of world literature an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia that contains the earliest version of the Flood Myth. Johnny and Robert began work on the album in the first weeks of the pandemic, wanting to make music that sang of those dangerous, disorienting spring days when birdsong was brighter –– and the sense of bewilderment more powerful –– thanĪny of us had known before. ‘Lost In The Cedar Wood’, Johnny Flynn’s much-anticipated fifth album, is co-written with his friend Robert Macfarlane. ![]()
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