Wynwynkorncoroll (The Doggerland Onion Horn Dance) [NDAS 2013-08a] + Dýnsgolchygân (The Doggerland Paean To Jubilant Scrubbing) [NDAS 2013-08b] are historically ambivalent re-creations of lost musical forms from a long-forgotten civilisation. Implausibly, new information about Doggish customs was uncovered in 2013 as a result of meticulous laser analysis of the surfaces of certain ceramic artefacts that had been created by Doggish craftspeople in conjunction with important rituals. When these digital scans were converted into audio information, it was revealed that the process of making the vessels had produced an outcome similar to that of early phonograph recording: the reeds used to inscribe the ceramics had etched the waveforms of proximate sound vibrations into the still-damp clay. The details of these findings were used as the basis for these two recordings.

original 2013 notes:

These two tracks were inspired by recent discoveries I made in the bathtub about the rituals and traditions of the people that once inhabited the now-submerged territory of Doggerland. The names given have been transliterated into the closest possible equivalents in the Common Brittonic language (the root 'P-Celtic' language spoken in ancient Britain and the Celtic areas of Western Europe, which later evolved into Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Breton, Cumbirc, etc). This alteration was necessary since the actual Doggish language, while similar in conception and syntax to ancient Brittonic, differed greatly in it's methods of expression. Predating conventional alphabets, it's written mode consisted of extremely specific arrangements of vegetables, hazelnut shells, bones and, most importantly, flowers (in fact, the long-standing tradition of giving flowers on special occasions is one of the most obvious descendants of this unusual form of communication). The verbal mode also differed greatly from the later Celtic tongues: vocalisations were largely restricted to small pips and whistles made by the lips and cheeks with the mouth remaining closed, while the bulk of information was conveyed through hip swivels and jerks of the head, both made in combination with a specific positioning of the elbows.

Dýnsgolchygân: The Doggerland Paean To Jubilant Scrubbing

With this recording I kept to a more traditional approach, attempting a straightfoward re-enactment of a ritual chant performed every morning by people throughout the various regions of Doggerland. The chant was believed to insure long life -- and, not to suggest any 'supernatural' property, the bioarchaeological evidence collected from skeletal remains has established that the life-span of the average Doggerlander was in fact a good fifteen years longer than the average Briton at the time (the latter frequently perishing in their early 30s as a result of infections transmitted through their teeth). With the flooding of Doggerland and the concurrent obliteraion of the Doggic culture around 6500 BCE, this ritual was apparently lost to the surviving Brittonic community for the next eight thousand years.