Biblical Fruit (aka The Indo-European Moods of Sedayne) / Sedayne Astray Volume 4 / Ploughmyth 91294

Far from being in any way religious, the notion of Biblical Fruit was inspired both by the Ancient Egyptian pomegranates in the Durham Oriental Museum & the sudden availability of various exotic fruits in Greenwell's in the early autumn; such things as fresh figs and dates were seized upon gladly as an antidote to the onset of the Northumbrian Winter and the inevitable SAD thus invigorating a refined sense of wonderment & continuity that flew in the face of any innate macrobiotic sensibilities & inspired a music that might further invigorate that sense of wonderment & continuity; Indo-European moods created by way of research, celebration & mediumistic indulgence, resounding in the silences of the cultural hereafter. This is a sequence of just such a music as realised between the autumn equinox & winter solstice 1994; astray in the dark heart of the turning year & voicelessly rejoicing...

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disk one / 74.55

i) Onset Prelude & October Myth (Revisited) * / 7.01
(bird / dvoynice / dumbek / rattles / crwth / goat / koboz / saz)

ii) Biblical Winter Prelude / 3.27
(wind chimes / bamboo flutes / plant pot / rain stick / khun / birds / dvoynice / bells / camel bells)

iii) Biblical Fruit / 8.07
(as above plus kalimba, melodica, hmrb)



iv) SOL / 7.05
(bowls / rain / rattles / dumbek / bells / mbira / melodica)

v) Mosaic # 1: Orion Rising / 8.54
(bells / saz / dumbek / rebec / shawm / melodica)



vi) The Golden Grain (Revisited) / 7.03
(whistle flute / melodica / crwth / rattles / bells / bird / dumbek)

vii) Meshtu & Meshtu Prelude / 13.51
(saz / bells / goat / birds / jaw harp / dumbek / rebec / melodica / alto clarinet)

viii) ONSET / 14.33
(crwth / dumbek / bird / whistle flutes / rain / stones)



ix) Langspillans Eventyr # 1 / 4.34
(hummel / melodica / bird)



disk two / 75.15

i) Nativitas / 5.38
(monkey drum / berimbau / bird flutes / dumbek / goat / saz / melodica)

ii) After the Flood / 5.42
(gongs / alto clarinet / angklung / wooden bells / rattles / flutes / monkey drum)



iii) Vals Eventyr # 1 / 9.49
(crwth / bells / whistle flute / ney / dumbek / bird flutes / rattles / melodica)



iv) Nbeh / 8.35
(koboz / bells / bird flutes / gardon / saz / three-hole harmonic pipes)



v) Mosaic # 2: Orion Turning / 6.12
(dumbek / saz / crwth / rattles)

vi) Langspillans Hearthdance / 9.31
(hummel / goat / bird flutes / rebec / whistle flute / melodica)

vii) Temple Garden / 8.26
(berimbau / melodica / rattles / birds / dumbek )



viii) Winterfold & Plough Myth / 13.29
(dumbek / bird flutes / crwth / bells / khun / goat / koboz / melodica)

ix) Langspillans Eventyr # 2 / 7.32
(hummel / rain / melodica / bird flutes)



* This recording also features on The Proximal Indo-European No-Age Sounds of Sedayne compilation, albeit in a different mix; as such it represents the first piece from the PI-EN-ASOS cdr to appear elsewhere although both Music for Comet Hale-Bopp & the Proximal Dialectic (1997) (which yielded The Hale-Bopp Strutt & Hometime) and November Music 1998 (from which came Harvest Myth 98 & Three Stories for Rapunzel) are scheduled to be reissued at some point in 2005. As implied in the title, this version of October Myth revisits an earlier theme from the original 1991 hearthcharm sessions a sequence of which will likewise be amongst next year's retrospective releases.