We have not long to love | Helen Charlston & Edward Picton-Turbervill

Brevity is essential to the notion of the song as a fleeting glimpse of mysteries too big and too mysterious to grasp for more than a moment. This is also the moment, too soon passed, of human love, both celebrated and lamented in the bittersweet Tennessee Williams setting, We have not long to love. Its urgent awareness of time passing courses through all these songs: some of them telescope centuries or millennia into minutes, while others, short as they are, amplify (as if seeking to hold on to) tiny epiphanies. According to Edward, the songs themselves often crystallise in such instantaneous realisations, germinating in ‘a shiver down the spine’. Pre-save worldwide, here: https://orcd.co/exz6kdk film by Will Coates-Gibson / foxbrush.co.uk recorded sound by Paul Baxter www.delphianrecords.com