Digital Media

The Water Is the Shovel of the Shore

Album by Shovel Dance Collective

Released 1 December 2022

1
I: The Bold Fisherman
2:37
2
I: Thames waters off Greenland Dock, The Weary Whaling Grounds,
4:13
3
I: Junkyard work next to Dartford Creek, rigging and reeds at Erith Marina, The Bold Benjamin, waterfowl on the Darent
3:00
4
I: The Herrings Head
1:09
5
I: Water pump in Ladywell, Waves on the Shore, a Creek on the Llŷn Peninsula
3:14
6
II: In Charlestown there Dwelled a Lass
6:10
7
II: Camera flash on the Deptford foreshore, The Rolling Waves, crashing spring waves by the Cutty Sark
4:30
8
II: Lovely on the Water, lapping waters by Tower Hill
2:21
9
II: Pump organ bellows being pushed by hand, the River Chess trickles, The Watermans Dance
2:37
10
III: Tourists feed gulls outside City Hall, The Bold Fisherman
2:30
11
III: Ferry east from London Bridge, A Fishermans’ Song for Attracting Seals / The Full Rigged Ship
3:46
12
III: Clergy of Southwark Cathedral and St Magnus the Martyr bless the Thames, the organ at St Mark's Clerkenwell, a fence at North Greenwich sings in the wind, distant cranes at Silvertown
3:23
13
III: The Wild Goose Shanty, slapping Thames water under a bridge, The Drowned Sailor, crashing waves at Deptford foreshore
4:02
14
III: Waterfall and rain on the River Chess, Captain Kidd's Farewell to the Seas
1:29
15
IV: Waters of the River Ravensbourne beside Elverson Road DLR station, Lowlands
4:01
16
IV: The Cruel Grave, pump organs at Nick's House
3:14
17
IV: The Grey Cock, Dan wading through Elverson Road DLR station tunnel
5:17
18
IV: Ova Canje Water
1:40