The Flood is the first ever full-length album of cutting-edge new music in Babylonian and Sumerian, accompanied by reconstructed ancient instruments.

The album was born out of Stef Conner, Andy Lowings, Mark Harmer, and the Gold Lyre of Ur Project’s shared passion for the rich, fascinating corpus of Mesopotamian literature and awe-inspiring beauty of ancient lyres, as well as their belief that new music is a means to forge empathetic connections between the modern world and the deep past. When they came together to make the album, none of the group had a firm idea of what to expect – they just met in a little medieval church near Andy’s house, with a collection of reconstructed ancient lyres, a box of random resonant objects, some Mesopotamian poems and a stack of recording equipment, and started to improvise! By the time the album was recorded, everyone involved was surprised and somewhat awed by what they had created. The incredible Mesopotamian poems and beautiful Gold Lyre of Ur have inspired some of the strangest, rawest, most gripping, and otherworldly songs you will ever hear, as well as some amusing and often downright bizarre  excursions into the ancient Mesopotamian world… which reveal that in many ways, people in the remotest of ancient civilisations were actually a lot like us!