A Full Moon in March Love’s Loneliness

Release Date	27. mars 1990
Record Label	Kirkelig Kulturverksted
Catalog Number	FXCD/LP/MC 94

Crazy Jane and the Bishop

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  CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP
  
  Bring me to the blasted oak
  That I, midnight upon the stroke,
  (All find safety upon the tomb.)
  May call down curses on his head
  Because of my dear Jack that’s dead.
  Coxcomb was the least he said:
  The solid man and the coxcomb.
  
  Nor was he Bishop when his ban
  Banished Jack the Journeyman,
  (All find safety in the tomb.)
  Nor so much as parish priest,
  Yet he, an old book in his fist,
  Cried that we lived like beast and beast:
  The solid man and the coxcomb.
  
  The Bishop has a skin, God knows,
  Wrinkled like a foot of a goose,
  (All find safety in the tomb.)
  Nor can he hide in holy black
  The heron’s hunch upon his back,
  But a birch-tree stood my Jack:
  The solid man and the coxcomb.
  
  Jack had my virginity
  And bids me to the oak, for he
  (All find safety in the tomb.)
  Wanders out into the night
  And there is shelter under it,
  But should that other come, I spit:
  The solid man and the coxcomb.
  
  Words: W.B. Yeats (1929)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Finn Coren (1989)
  copyright Finn Coren / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Finn Coren: vocals, harmonium
  Trøst: harmonium
  Nils-Arne Øvergård: electric guitar
  Kyrre Sætran: bass
  Rolf Recknagel: acoustic guitar
  Ulf Holand: programming
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Crazy Jane Reproved

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  CRAZY JANE REPROVED
  
  I care not what the sailors say:
  All those dreadful thunder-stones,
  All that storm that blots the day
  Can but show that Heaven yawns;
  Great Europa played the fool
  That changed a lover for a bull.
  Fol de rol, fol de rol
  
  To round that shell’s elaborate whorl,
  Adorning every secret track
  With the delicate mother-of-pearl,
  Made the joints of Heaven crack:
  So never hang your heart upon
  A roaring, ranting journeyman.
  Fol de rol, fol de rol.
  
  Words: W.B. Yeats (1929)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Trøst (1989)
  Strings by Trøst & Dagfinn Koch
  copyright Trøst / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Trøst: vocals, sampled flutes
  Finn Coren: choir
  Liv Andersen: violin
  Dagrun Agnes Vikesland: violin
  Mattis Lundquist: double-bass
  Trygve-Johan Simonsen: viola
  Mari Giske: viola
  Sophie Norbye: cello
  Ingrid S. Jensen: cello
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  and Ina Tangerud
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment

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  CRAZY JANE ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
  
  ‘Love is all
  Unsatisfied
  That cannot take the whole
  Body and soul’;
  And that is what Jane said.
  
  ‘Take the sour
  If you take me,
  I can scoff and lour
  And scold for an hour.’
  ‘That’s certainly the case, said he.
  
  ‘Naked I lay,
  The grass my bed;
  Naked and hidden away,
  That black day’;
  And that is what Jane said.
  
  ‘What can be shown?
  What true love be?
  All could be known or shown
  If Time were but gone.’
  ‘That’s certainly the case,’ said he.
  
  Words: W.B. Yeats (1931)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Trøst (1989)
  copyright Trøst / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Trøst: vocal, keyboards, guitar
  Finn Coren: vocal
  Kyrre Sætran: bass
  Einar Bergem: double-bass
  Ulf W.Ø. Holand: programming
  Hilde Norrgrén: B-vocal
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1989
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman

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  CRAZY JANE AND JACK THE JOURNEYMAN
  
  I know, although when looks meet
  I tremble to the bone,
  The more I leave the door unlatched
  The sooner love is gone,
  For love is but a skein unwound
  Between the dark and dawn.
  
  A lonely ghost the ghost is
  That to God shall come;
  I- love’s skein upon the ground,
  My body in the tomb -
  Shall leap into the light lost
  In my mother’s womb.
  
  But where I left to lie alone
  In an empty bed,
  The skein so bound us ghost to ghost
  When he turned his head
  Passing on the road that night,
  Mine would walk being dead.
  
  Words: W. B. Yeats (1931)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Finn Coren (1989)
  copyright Finn Coren / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Finn Coren: vocal, acoustic guitar, harmonium, synth
  Trøst: harmonium
  Mona Nordgård: B-vocal
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios,Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Crazy Jane on God

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  CRAZY JANE ON GOD
  
  That lover of a night
  Came when he would,
  Went in the dawning light
  Whether I would or no;
  Men come, men go:
  All things remain in God.
  
  Banners choke the sky;
  Men-at-arms tread;
  Armoured horses neigh
  Where the great battle was
  In the narrow pass:
  All things remain in God.
  
  Before their eyes a house
  That from childhood stood
  Uninhabited, ruinous,
  Suddenly lit up
  From door to top:
  All things remain in God.
  
  I had wild Jack for a lover;
  Though like a road
  That men pass over
  My body makes no moan
  But sings on:
  All things remain in God.
  
  Words: W. B. Yeats (1931)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Finn Coren (1983/89)
  Strings by Finn Coren
  copyright Finn Coren / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Finn Coren: vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, synth
  Trøst: drums, timpani
  Kyrre Sætran: bass
  John Martin Skogsbakken: double-bass
  Einar Bergem: double-bass
  Hilde Norrgrén: B-vocal
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1989
  Engineered by Ulf.W.Ø. Holand
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop

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  CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP
  
  I met the Bishop on the road
  And much said he and I.
  ‘Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
  Those veins must soon be dry;
  Live in a heavenly mansion,
  Not in some foul sty.’
  
  ‘Fair and foul are near of kin,
  And fair needs foul,’ I cried.
  ‘My friends are gone, but that’s a truth
  Nor grave nor bed denied,
  Learned in bodily lowliness
  And in the heart’s pride.
  
  ‘A woman can be proud and stiff
  When on love intent;
  But Love has pitched his mansion in
  The place of excrement;
  For nothing can be sole or whole
  That has not been rent.’
  
  Words: W.B. Yeats (1931)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Finn Coren (1989)
  Strings by Finn Coren and Dagfinn Koch
  copyright Finn Coren / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Finn Coren: vocals, acoustic guitar, synth
  Trøst: keyboard
  Nils-Arne Øvergård: guitar
  Kyrre Sætran: bass
  Ulf Holand: programming
  Rolf Recknagel: additional guitar
  Liv Andersen: violin
  Dagrun Agnes Vikesland: violin
  Trygve-Johan Simonsen: viola
  Mari Giske: viola
  Sophie Norbye: cello
  Ingrid S. Jensen: cello
  Mattis Lundquist: double-bass
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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.Crazy Jane grown old looks at the Dancers

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  CRAZY JANE GROWN OLD LOOKS AT THE DANCERS
  
  I found that ivory image there
  Dancing with her chosen youth,
  But when he wound her coal-black hair
  As though to strangle her, no scream
  Or bodily movement did I dare,
  Eyes under eyelids did so gleam:
  Love is like the lion’s tooth.
  
  When she, and though some said she played
  I said that she had danced heart’s truth,
  Drew a knife to strike him dead,
  I could but leave him to his fate;
  For no matter what is said
  They had all that had their hate:
  Love is like the lion’s tooth.
  
  Did he die or did she die?
  Seemed to die or died they both?
  God be with the times when I
  Cared not a thraneen for what chanced
  So that I had the limbs to try
  Such a dance as there was danced-
  Love is like the lion’s tooth.
  
  Words: W.B. Yeats (1929)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Trøst (1989)
  copyright Trøst / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Trøst: vocal, programming, synth
  Nils-Arne Øvergård: electric guitar-effects
  Brjánn Ingason: basoon
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  and Ina Tangerud
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Girls's Song

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  GIRL’S SONG
  
  I went out alone
  To sing a song or two,
  My fancy on a man,
  And you know who.
  
  Another came in sight
  That on a stick relied
  To hold himself upright,
  I sat and cried.
  
  And that was all my song -
  When everything is told,
  Saw I an old man young
  Or a young man old?
  
  Words: W. B. Yeats (1929)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Finn Coren (1989)
  Strings by Dagfinn Koch
  copyright Finn Coren / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Finn Coren: vocal, piano, harmonium
  Dagrun Agnes Vikesland: violin
  Trygve-Johan Simonsen: viola
  Sophie Norbye: cello
  
  Recorded at Rainbow Studio and
  Bel Studios, Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Young Man's Song

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  YOUNG MAN’S SONG
  
  ‘She will change,’ I cried,
  ‘Into a whithered crone.’
  The heart in my side,
  That so still had lain,
  In noble rage replied
  And beat upon the bone:
  
  ‘Uplift those eyes and throw
  Those glances unafraid:
  She would as bravely show
  Did all the fabric fade;
  No withered crone I saw
  Before the world was made.’
  
  Abashed by that report,
  For the heart cannot lie,
  I knelt in the dirt.
  And all shall bend the knee
  To my offended heart
  Until it pardon me.
  
  Words: W. B. Yeats (1929)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Finn Coren (1989)
  copyright Finn Coren / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Finn Coren: vocal, acoustic guitar, synth
  Trøst: piano, programming
  Nils-Arne Øvergård: guitars
  Kyrre Sætran: bass
  Ulf Holand: programming
  Brjánn Ingason: basoon
  Rolf Recknagel: additional guitar
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Her Anxiety

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  HER ANXIETY
  
  Earth in beauty dressed
  Awaits returning spring.
  All true love must die,
  Alter at the best
  Into some lesser thing.
  Prove that I lie.
  
  Such body lovers have,
  Such exacting breath,
  That they touch or sigh.
  Every touch they give,
  Love is nearer death
  Prove that I lie.
  
  Words: W.B. Yeats (1929)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Finn Coren (1989)
  copyright Finn Coren / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Finn Coren: vocals
  Trøst: drums
  Nils-Arne Øvergård: guitars
  Kyrre Sætran: bass
  Ulf Holand: effects
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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His Confidence

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  HIS CONFIDENCE
  
  Undying love to buy
  I wrote upon
  The corners of this eye
  All wrongs done.
  What payment were enough
  For undying love?
  
  I broke my heart in two
  So hard I struck.
  What matter? for I know
  That out of rock,
  Out of a desolate source,
  Love leaps upon its course.
  
  Words: W. B. Yeats (1929)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Trøst (1989)
  copyright Trøst / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Trøst: vocals, drums
  Nils-Arne Øvergård: guitars
  Kyrre Sætran: bass
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  and Ina Tangerud
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Love's Loneliness

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  LOVE’S LONELINESS
  
  Old fathers, great-grandfathers,
  Rise as kindred should.
  If ever lover’s loneliness
  Came where you stood,
  Pray that Heaven protect us
  That protect your blood.
  
  The mountain throws a shadow,
  Thin is the moon’s horn;
  What did we remember
  Under the ragged thorn?
  Dread has followed longing,
  And our hearts are torn.
  
  Words: W. B. Yeats (1929)
  from “Words for Music Perhaps” (1932)
  courtesy of A.P. Watt Ltd, London on behalf of Michael B. Yeats
  
  Music: Finn Coren (1984)
  Strings by Dagfinn Koch
  copyright Finn Coren / Kirkelig Kulturverksted 1990 all rights reserved
  
  Performers:
  Finn Coren: vocals
  Kristin Skaare: piano
  Aage Kvalbein: cello-solo
  Liv Andersen: violin
  Dagrun Agnes Vikesland: violin
  Trygve-Johan Simonsen: viola
  Mari Giske: viola
  Sophie Norbye: cello
  Ingrid S. Jensen: cello
  Mattis Lundquist: double-bass
  members of Oslo Gospel Choir: B-vocals
  
  Recorded at Bel Studios, Oslo 1990
  Engineered by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Mixed at Bel Studios, Oslo by Ulf W.Ø. Holand
  Produced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand,
  assisted by Finn Coren and Trøst
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Pruduced by Ulf W.Ø. Holand, Coren & Trøst
Sleeve: Tor Lindrupsen
Photo: Kjell Herning / Fin Serck-Hanssen

Presseskriv 1990

A Full Moon in March Love’s Loneliness

LP med rocktekster til nobelprisvinner

TOLV SANGER VED FULLMÅNE

For 60 år siden søkte en en irsk poet musikk til 25 av sine dikt, men først i dag får han positivt svar, og det kommer fra to norske rockere. Dikteren William Butler Yeats, og måten han formulerte søknaden på var å kalle diktsamlingen for «Words for music perhaps». De to nordmennene som omsider har innfridd hans lille håp, er en fersk duo som kaller seg A Full Moon in March. I dag presenterer de de 12 første diktene i samlingen på en LP de har kallt «Love’s Loneliness».

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), som i 1923 ble hedret med nobelprisen i litteratur, var en romantiker til tåspissene. Men han sto i sterk opposisjon til tradisjonell romantisk poesi. Språket og metaforene hans fortoner seg selv i vår tid som temmelig «moderne», og passer overraskende godt til et rock-konsept. Kanskje er det fordi romantikeren Yeats bobler fram i diktene, like uregjerlig som tromme- og gitarkjøret til A Full Moon in March og like lidenskapelig som stemmene til de to som synger på platen?

A Full Moon in March består av Finn Coren og Trøst, begge bosatt i Oslo men opprinnelig fra henholdsvis Fosnavåg og Molde. De har tidligere blitt presentert i programmet Rock 90 med to videoer fra sin nye LP. De to deler på såvel å lage musikken som å synge låtene, men på platen har de fått hjelp av en lang rekke musikere, blandt dem Aage Kvalbein på cello og Oslo Gospel Choir, samt Kyrre Sætran på bass, Nils-Arne Øvergård på gitarer og Dagfinn Koch (strykorkestrering). Platen er produsert av Ulf W.Ø. Holand i samarbeid med A Full Moon in March. – KKV 1990

Sitater fra anmeldelse fra 1990:
Musikkavisen Puls: «Coren & Trøst formidler ensomhetens brutalitet idet de setter denne poesien inn i moderne lydbilder, og de er ofte like personlige i sine musikalske uttrykk som Yeats var det i sin diktning. .. en dokumentasjon av at rock og poesi er sammenførbart, og endog én og samme ting.»

Nye Takter: «Selv om dette slett ikke er en oppfølger til Corens glimrende debut-LP fra ifjor, er det lett å sammenlikne med tyngden vi fant der. Her er det rock som sitter som et skudd, med gode melodier og et bunnsolid komp. Denne musikken er i tillegg mer variert og eventyrlysten med effektene, ofte med orkestreringer som setter en fin spiss på lyden.»