By Dorothy Trogdon

If you have failed and fallen

as I have, and long to be forgiven,

walk out under the graphite sky

past the grey etched alders

and the tangle of wild rose bushes,

for there is no blame in that wild world.

Each accepts without outcry what comes,

goes on to leaf out and blossom.

Stand among them, let the kindness of rain

and of darkness fall on your shoulders.

Dorothy’s book ‘Tall Woman Looking’ is available to buy here: http://bluebegoniapress.com/catalogtrogdon-dorothy_332.html 

I’m very pleased to announce that my new album ‘Dorothy’ is out now and available from the Diagrams shop as well HMV and independent record shops such as Fopp, Rough Trade and Piccadilly Records.

https://diagrams.tmstor.es/

The songs for the album were written in collaboration with wonderful Orcas Island poet Dorothy Trogdon. The album was produced by Mike Lindsay and Kristofer Harris and features arrangements by Kelly Pratt, Sam Ewens, Astra Forward and Danyal Dhondy.

I hope you like it! Let me know what you think.

Sam

I’m very happy to share with you that last week I released my third single ‘I Tell Myself’ from the new album!

It was premiered on 'Dork magazine’ and you can listen to it there, on Soundcloud or on Spotify (or any digital platform of your choice).

https://readdork.com/news/diagrams-premieres-new-track-i-tell-myself/

https://soundcloud.com/ideas-and-sketches/i-tell-myself-by-diagrams/s-lgbXZ

https://play.spotify.com/track/5BPmS4yWvGHxFeaOMhhcen?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

Here are the lyrics for my song Desolation. This is for Tolga Can Ünal who requested them on twitter….

All along she speaks in a whisper  
Delicately crushing the future          
In her mouth her tongue is a creature with a trident fork                            

Underneath the smiles and kind words
You are breaking up into birds that fly, carrying your sparkling entrails out                      

Time is a fickle mistress                      
She loves your shining distress            
Time is the brightest diamond              
Cutting through your mind                    

Ah, Desolation                                    
Come in a vessel of light                    
Stride through the demarcation line    
To the game inside                            
Ah,  Revelation                                  
Breaks like a collapsed lung              
Ah, Desperation                                
Flares like a starting gun                    

All along you wonder and worry          
All of this is coming to nothing            
And you dream of cradles and old yew trees              

Underground you’re buried alive          
And light is a line we save for the children          
There is a tone that’s ringing inside your head            

Time is a fickle mistress        
With a wicked grin              
Perception is inviting          
You to come on in                  

Ah Desolation Bursts like a warning fire                              
Stride through the demarcation lines to the breath inside    
Ah Revelation comes in a strangers mask                          
And the morning is outstanding you can breathe at last      

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170215-the-strange-link-between-the-human-mind-and-quantum-physics

The Light Pours Out of Me

By Jeese Treece

http://collageartbyjesse.tumblr.com

New single ‘Wild Grasses’ from my album ‘Dorothy’ which will be released in May. 

I’m delighted to say we’ve now finished crowdfunding for the next Diagrams album ‘Dorothy’. We’ve made lots of new friends along the way and have made around £10,000 which will fund the release of the album in May 2017. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported the project and made this release a possibility. It’s also been nice to get radio plays for ‘It’s Only Light’ from Lauren Laverne on 6 Music recommends and John Kennedy on Radio X this week. We’re now busy planning the release and getting all the beautiful artwork put together. Watch this space! If anyone would like to know more about Dorothy Trogdon and her wonderful poetry and perhaps buy her book ‘Tall Woman Looking’ I recommend visiting her publisher’s website here:

http://bluebegoniapress.com/catalogtrogdon-dorothy_332.html
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Exciting news! Today we launched my Indiegogo Crowdfunding campaign to fund the self-release of my new Diagrams album. The album is a set of songs written with 90-year-old poet Dorothy Trogdon. It’s produced by Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Speech Debelle) and Kristofer Harris (Smoke Fairies, Clock Opera) and features arrangements from Kelly Pratt (Arcade Fire, David Byrne, St Vincent, Beirut) as well as Astra Forward, Danyal Dhondy and Sam Ewens. We’re really pleased with it and can’t wait to get it out into the world…we just need your help to do it! Take a look at the great rewards on the campaign and please share on social media and tell your friends about it.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-dorothy-project-music-poetry

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Photo collage by Kevin Dowd

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Photo collage by Pilar Zeta

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Here’s a song I wrote to celebrate the centenary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. It’s 100 years to the day since Einstein gave the last in a series of lectures in which he put forward his world changing and mind bending ideas about the nature of space and time and the the world has never been quite the same since. This was produced by Sheffield based Martin Gregory Smith and the artwork and animation is by James Bates. You can also download the song for free by clicking through to the youtube link.