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Gathering Grounds

from Saltings by Rev Simpkins

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    32-page full colour saddle-stitched 210 x 210 mm art book of illustrations by Tom Knight for each song.

    Includes full lyrics and an essay by Matthew Simpkins.

    Printed on high quality Aquarello Gesso art paper.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saltings via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Seven long months in the making, the vinyl version of Saltings by Rev Simpkins is now available to pre-order. We have these in the building and they will ship on or before 21 October 2022. This is proper pressed vinyl album (not a lathe-cut) in a strictly limited edition of 90 copies.

    If you would like a version of the LP with the art book, please see the option below.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saltings via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days

      £18 GBP or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Seven long months in the making, the vinyl version of Saltings by Rev Simpkins is now available to pre-order. We have these in the building and they will ship on or before 21 October 2022. This is proper pressed vinyl album (not a lathe-cut) in a strictly limited edition of 90 copies. Plus a 32-page full colour saddle-stitched 210 x 210 mm art book of Tom Knight’s illustrations, with lyrics and an essay by Rev Matthew Simpkins. The book is printed on deluxe Aquarello Gesso art paper.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saltings via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days

      £25 GBP or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Full Digital Discography

    11
    releases

    Get all 11 Rev Simpkins releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Apple, Pissabed Prophet, Saltings, For Every Number (EP), Poor Child for Thee: 4 Songs for Christmastide, Big Sea, Advent (Single), Sing Your Life EP, and 3 more. , and , .

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A prayer. My parish is known for its ancient springs that mingle at the ‘Gathering Grounds’ which supplied our fresh water from pre-Roman times until the 1970s.

lyrics

Give me words
Give me grace
To make hope real in this place
Where fresh streams tumble down
Mingling at the Gathering Grounds

There springs pure water
All things are made new
And sorrow and parting and death are subdued
Oh won’t you lead us, lead us down
To the Gathering Grounds

Hope springs
Tears roll down
Both flow to the Gathering Grounds
Where our lost ones are found
Singing as true love abounds

There springs pure water
To soothe salted eyes
All absence is absent where love never dies
Oh won’t you lead us, lead us down
To the Gathering Grounds

Gentle Shepherd of sheep
Gather all who mourn and weep
Lead where joy can resound
Bring us to the Gathering Grounds

There springs pure water
All things are made new
And sorrow and parting and death are subdued
Oh won’t you lead us, lead us down
To the Gathering Grounds

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from Saltings, released March 25, 2022

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Rev Simpkins UK

Notorious sinner-songwriter, folk symphonist & Anglican priest.
The Rev’s unique psychedelic gospel and gritty folk owes as much to the Old Testament, & the dark folk tales & barren landscapes of Essex & Suffolk, as it does to his musical heroes Bert Jansch, Captain Beefheart & the Kinks. He comes from a long line of priests whose fiery performances characterise his own style. ... more

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