The
culmination of a five-year project, the Druidbone CD
features poetry, music, sounds of nature, and a ceremonial pagan circle
casting in the Irish language.
The poems are largely druidic in nature, including works by the great
Irish mystic AE, aka George Russell. The music is an interpretation of
the poetry and ritual magic utilizing a blend of jazz, blues, drum-n-bass
and ancient Celtic drum rhythms, and features human voice, modern traditional
Irish samples, as well as ancient Irish, multi-ethnic, and modern instrumentation
and sounds.
Originally designed for use as a ritual tool, Druidbone can be used to simply learn the words in Irish to cast a Sacred Space or An Fainne (ring or circle).
It can also be played by individuals working solitaire, or by groves or covens to open a ritual in Irish, then paused while performing other personal or group aspects of ritual, majik and spellworking, then continued to complete and close the ritual. It has also been used as a meditative tool, "to cast a circle in ones own mind", while never physically leaving the confines of the everyday world when it is impossible to be in a more naturally conducive environment for ritual.
The Tracks
Cast
an Irish Circle(An Fainne) represents
the sound of a pagan ritual opening using modern Irish language,
original poetry, and specific references to ancient Irish script,
specifically the Battle of Moytura or Cath Maige Turedh An Scel-sa
Sis & Genemain Bres Meic Elathan & A Righe. Cast an Irish Circle(An Fainne) opens and closes with the beating of a human heart, and utilises various rhythms throughout, with the use of bodhran, bones, uillean pipes, guitar, harmonica and samples of horn sounds from the bronze age in Ireland. First Triumph Song, presents three versions of the legendary poem written by the Druid Amergin of the Fair Knee when the Milesians first landed in the land of Erinn in the year of the world 3500. It features a Celtic war drum rhythm and acoustic guitar, and ancient Irish horn samples representing the arbitration between the Tuatha de Dannan and the landing Milesians. Three versions of the poem, one in Old Irish, one in Modern Irish, and its English translation as appears in Dr. George Sigersons¹1897 Bards of the Gael and Gall are recited over the dark, etherical sounds. Three
other tracks feature the poetry of the great Irish mystic AE and
Kellys’ jazz/blues interpretations. They are more modern in
their approach, and have been described as a somewhat ‘beat’
sound. Track two, is a blues interpretation of AEs’ 1931 poem
In Tir Na Nog, A Dream called Happy and Dead and
is probably the most ‘straight-ahead’ track in musical
terms. The fourth track, entitled Logos; the Universe Revealed
in Song, features over thirty samples and bytes of various
multi-ethnic sounds; Irish, pan-African, pan-Asian, Pacific, Slavic,
classical, jazz, psychedelic guitar and blues harmonica. Track five
is a dedication to New York City, a mecca of Irish America, and
features two poems by AE; New York (the tracks
title) and The Cities recited over a jazz/blues improvisation. |
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