Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane - Lost In The Cedar Wood

Released 8th October 2021.

Lost In The Cedar Wood, Johnny Flynns much-anticipated fifth album, is co-written with his friend Robert Macfarlane.

Johnny and Robert began work on the album in the first weeks of the pandemic, wanting to make music that sang of those dangerous, disorienting spring days; when birdsong was brighter and the sense of bewilderment more powerful than
any of us had known before. They drew inspiration in part from The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving work of worldliterature; an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia that contains the earliest version of the Flood Myth. To Johnny and
Robert, Gilgamesh resonated eerily with the present moment and it catalysed their song-writing. For Gilgamesh is astory of friendship, love, loss, grief, bad governance and good dreaming; of natural disaster and environmental crisis. It
also contains the first recorded act of human destruction of the natural world: when Gi