The Gallows Pole OST, by The Shining Levels

The Gallows Pole OST

by The Shining Levels

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Soundtrack album made to celebrate the Benjamin Myers novel The Gallows Pole
Originally released in 2019 on Outre Disque

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1.	Stag Dance 04:40	info	buy track
2.	Moonless Nights 04:06	info	buy track
3.	Tipping Of The Scale 03:30	info	buy track
4.	Broken On A Wheel 03:46	info	buy track
5.	Valley Boys 03:43	info	buy track
6.	Progress! 04:02	info	buy track
7.	Deighton 05:28	info	buy track
8.	Men Of Straw 03:22	info	buy track
9.	Veil of the Vale 04:58	info	buy track
10.	Death of the King 03:45	info	buy track

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*****AVAILABLE ON LIMITED EDITION VINYL *****

WE HAVE A VERY LIMITED NUMBER of the original Outre Disque vinyl pressing still available. Please message for details.

“Resonating with the raw currents of nature, notes of hot human emotion and wild surges of power and defiance which underpin the narrative…This music takes on the textures of hardship and hope, the human continuance and determination to strive in the countryside, to come to some kind of understanding with nature.” - Emily Oldfield, Louder than War.

Written and recorded on the edge of the northern English moors using rural folk musicians, loops and electronics, the result is a heady brew of gritty landscape hymns, ethereal acid-folk, borderlands ballads, 70s folk horror TV/film atmospherics, mood pieces, echoes of the colliery bands of old, moor-top drones and much, much more.

Music inspired by the novel The Gallows Pole sees The Shining Levels tread similar topographical terrain to The Unthanks, and shares DNA with such disparate musical ancestors such as Pentangle, Sandy Denny, Bridget St. John and Tom Waits, though is its own beast entirely.

Inspired by the real life events of 18th century Yorkshire criminal gang the Cragg Vale Coiners who operate in the Upper Calder Valley in the Pennines, the album’s source material, The Gallows Pole by author Benjamin Myers, has rapidly become a modern cult classic. First published in 2017 by Bluemoose Books, it has sold out seven print-runs before being reissued by Bloomsbury Publishing. It is the first novel to be signed to Jack White’s Third Man Books, and will be published in the US/Canada in November 2019.

Drawing on a shared childhood and background with the author, The Shining Levels’ music explores themes from the book: an England divided, the potency and mystery of remote rural landscapes, industrial progress, the changing seasons, shifting fortunes, self-delusion and self-aggrandisement, poverty vs wealth, societal power structures…and strange visions of mythical creatures.

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released May 31, 2019

Created and performed by Dan W Coggins and Davey J.

With contributions from:
Laura Smith.
Jenny Mahler, George Hutton, Charlotte Sellers, Mike Coleman, Joe Smith, Sarah Scott, Benjamin Myers, Dave Sugarbeet, Owain Bennett.

With special thanks to: Core Music Hexham, Delaney Williams (Book cover art) and Bluemoose Books.

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The Shining Levels Durham, UK

The Shining Levels are an alt folk group based in the North East of England. Their songs feature beautiful arrangements of soaring harmonies in lush soundscapes.
Their first album ‘The Gallows Pole’ was a musical companion to the novel my Benjamin Myers in 2019. And their new 2022 album ‘The Silence of The Girls’ is influenced by the bestselling novel by Pat Barker. ... more

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