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Over Ling And Bell

by Amy May Ellis

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition LP, pressed on eco-friendly vinyl - recycled colour vinyl pellets are reused at the plant to create lucky-dip marble colour effects.

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Wild Geese 03:28
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Aud Mother 02:37
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Medicine 02:49
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RLS 03:32
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Matador 02:57
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Miner Farmer 02:30
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Day Divine 02:58
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Mondegreen 04:41
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RELEASED 12TH MAY 2023

Raised in a remote dale in the middle of the North York Moors, Amy May Ellis invites you on a journey through the history and mysticism of this wide-open landscape. Now based in Bristol, Amy’s warm and delicate folk-leaning songs are steeped in the culture, scenery, folklore and wildlife of the countryside that surrounded and shaped her as a child. She makes her debut for Lost Map Records with the PostMap Club postcard single ‘Rain From The East’, a song about “feeling unsteady and the weariness that comes with grief”, formed in time with the shovelling of coal under a gathering storm. Recorded live with Rob Pemberton on drums and Alex Heane on double bass, it’s the opening track and first taster of Amy’s mesmerising forthcoming debut album Over Ling and Bell, which is due for release on limited-edition eco-friendly 12” vinyl and digital platforms on May 12, 2023. Amy will play live around the UK in February, as tour support for James Yorkston and Nina Persson, as well as perform at the Lost Map 10th anniversary all-dayer at Oran Mor in Glasgow on Sunday, February 5 as part of the Celtic Connections festival.

Brought up singing around the house with her mother, Amy May Ellis was first inspired to start writing songs aged 15 on a ukulele bought for her by her grandad. She began making her mark as a musician through support slots for touring artists including Michael Chapman, Alessi’s Ark, Hiss Golden Messenger, Tiny Ruins, Ryley Walker and Willy Mason at her local music venue The Band Room in Farndale. “Having artists from all over the world come and play in the tin shed at the bottom of the hill was pretty special,” she reflects. Since 2018, with the support of a growing band of friends, collaborators and fans, Amy has released a series of four EPs, each exploring an element – Weathered by Waves, We Got Fire, Where My Garden Lies, and When In The Wind. She has received support from BBC 6 Music, BBC introducing, Uncut Magazine and Rough Trade, and has played headline tours around the UK and Ireland, as well as performed at Brighton’s Great Escape festival.

Inspired by centuries of human habitation on the ancient North York Moors, Over Ling and Bell was written in a secluded farmhouse there, mostly alone but sometimes with friends. It represents the fullest, finest, and most complete manifestation yet of Amy May Ellis’s nourishing nature songs. The circling guitar patterns and soaring vocals of ‘Wild Geese’ gaze skyward at the allegorical magic of flocking birds in flight. Shaped by sinister folktales, ‘Aud Mother’ celebrates witches, mothers and the power of friendship. Set to softly tumbling percussive loops, ‘Miner Farmer’ references Amy’s grandmother and her sister, who would walk from their dale over the hill to the neighbouring valley, carrying their dancing shoes for a night of revelry in the village hall. ‘Maybe We’ll Wake Up’ is a gently unfurling torch song written together with fellow singer-songwriter Uma Bunnag, while the album’s stunning, shimmering, dreamlike closer ‘Mondegreen’ was written with and produced by Sam Griffiths of York indie rock band The Howl and The Hum. Over Ling and Bell is fresh and youthful and yet crafted in a grand folk tradition, interrogating legend and turning the soil in search of meaning, healing and purpose. A scuttle of coal to light the long dark winter nights.

“It’s named after two types of heather that grow on the Moors,” writes Amy, of the story behind Over Ling and Bell. “When I started writing for this album I went for walks with my uncle around the dale and unearthed a whole load of history which rooted itself in the songs. I’d always thought of the Moors as wild, but during that time I started to see how they had been tamed by everyone who had lived on them. From the miners, farmers and peat diggers to the Mesolithic hunters who settled on the hilltops.

“The history of the Moors led me to think about the taming of the wild things and everything we have done as humans to gain a sense of control over our surroundings and our lives. I wondered what we have lost with this taming. A lot of the songs are about illness, an inevitable product of a world where rest is a privilege and crisis is a constant. During the making and recording of the album, I had periods of feeling very lost and paralysingly scared. I found solace in ideas around navigating rather than taming wildness, and became obsessed with maps. I read Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain, Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways and dipped a toe into various philosophies. I still feel lost sometimes, but I’ve started finding things to orientate myself with.”

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released May 12, 2023

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