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For me D minor, that crowning glory of the minor keys, always provokes a strong synesthesia of dark blue. The same dark blue, perhaps, that stains the cloak of the wandering wizard-god Odin, whose ragged mystery haunts this track. This song is devotional, albeit with a dash of misdirection more than appropriate for the entity to which it is dedicated.
The key to this song, I think, is tension. The tension of notes that drone through the chord changes, flourishes of triplet notes against compound times that contort like a serpent shedding its skin. The song opens and closes; clouds that shroud the horizon, then withdraw to reveal the night sky (the subject of the album’s title track).
The requisite sense of spaciousness is provided by the soaring lift of Don Anderson’s electric guitar solo, which enters after the first chorus. Don’s flawless melodic gifts, so well-known from his work in Agalloch, Sculptured, and Khôrada, really enrich the song. Later, my bass solo attempts to follow suit, at the same time weaving in melodies that allude to figures in other tracks on the album.
This song attempts to embrace the mystery of being mortal in the face of the inevitable embrace of all that is unknown – which is to say, all things in their measure. There is an accent on the theme of self-exploration, and perhaps in its way the song is an invocation of the old alchemical dictum “as above, so below,” perhaps reframed as “as within, so without.” These are, of course, entirely reversible statements.
With the decisive key signature and then time signature changes that follow the bass solo, we really feel the song move into new territory, and rhythm drives matters at least as much as melody or harmony. Throughout I strove to make the vocals convey both bewilderment and reverence, resolve edged by fear. We are each wanderers on the tide of time, and the wanderer god is thus a universally fitting patron, an “all father” indeed.
These themes go on to intensify with the album's next song, “Searching for the Way.”
lyrics
Roam beyond
Roam beyond
Far away
From all I know
Dreaming
Dying
Embrace
Psyche
Roam beyond
Roam beyond
Far away
From all I am
Dreaming
Dying
Embrace
The unknown
I call on the blue cloaked one
I call on the one eyed one
To guide me!
To show me the way!
The way!
credits
from Goddess of Night,
released October 24, 2020
Electric guitar solo by Don Anderson
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