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The Iron Mountain

by Alan Lambert

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PLEASE NOTE: THIS ALBUM HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY TAKEN DOWN BECAUSE IT IS CURRENTLY BEING OFFERED AS A REWARD ON A CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN ELSEWHERE. THE FIRST TRACK HAS BEEN LEFT AS A REMINDER. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS.
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‘The Iron Mountain’ is an album I recorded in 2008. It is a musical reflection on the journey of the boy Minik, the ‘New York Eskimo’, and of the ‘Woman hurled from the sky’.

THE TRUE STORY OF MINIK:

In the 1890s a group of American explorers befriended a Polar Inuit community, living in Qaanaaq in Greenland. They were people who had never made contact with the outside world before, people who had only ever seen snow, water and sea-lions.

The American explorers were searching for the ‘Iron Mountain’, three huge meteorites believed to have impacted on the polar ice cap. The Inuit knew where the meteorites were, and worshipped them as the ‘Woman hurled from the sky’, with her dog and her tent. Once found, in the summer of 1897, the Iron Mountain was prepared for shipping back to New York.

The American explorers decided to bring a small Inuit group back to New York with the meteorites, to back up their stories, and for anthropological research. Within months of arriving in Manhattan they died of pneumonia, their systems unprepared for the humidity. Only the youngest child survived, the eight year old boy Minik. The American explorers and their museum refused to take responsibility for Minik and he was abandoned, cast out into the streets of nineteenth century New York.

Several years later Minik returned to the museum to find his father, Qisuk, and the other Inuit, on display in a glass case, alongside the ‘Woman hurled from the sky’. He began campaigning to have their remains returned to Greenland for a respectable burial. Qisuk, Nuktaq, Atangana and Aviaq were finally buried in their hometown of Qaanaaq in 1993, a hundred years after they first encountered the Americans.

Minik Wallace: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minik_Wallace

The opening track from this album was included on the compilation CD that was released with the ‘Dublin Electronic Arts Festival’ in 2008.

I also played it live in ‘The Shed’ artist’s studios in Dublin in 2009; www.mcbett.ie/2009-0107-the-shed---the-iron-mountain.html

Thanks for having a look! I hope you find it interesting.

Alan

May 1st, 2016

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