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CD: Tranquilus Prime
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MP3.com CD: Oversoul -  buy it!
CD: Oversoul
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MP3.com CD: Oversoul - buy it!
CD: Overoul
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| An evil purpose shadows the heart of the beekeeper Aristaeus, Actaeon's sire, as he looks upon Orpheus' new bride. He chases the new bride Euridice across a rocky field where she is bitten by an adder. Panic chases the darkness from Aristaeus' brow as he runs from the screams of woman whose senses quickly fade, there by the slithering beast. |
CD: Euridice
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| The swift-footed Hermes sits brooding next to the girl whose heel is darkened by the serpent's sting. He ignores the calls for Euridice from the searching men of the wedding party, choosing rather to gaze upon the face of unearthly beauty as he awaits the disjunction of her soul and body. Her inner form rises and looks bewildered. Hermes explains what was and what will be as they ride the shifting crosswinds to the Underworld. |
CD: Euridice
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| Orpheus, child of a muse and now groom of the lifeless girl, is the first to happen upon her body in the open field. Hours pass, his silent horror accented only by fingers that rip at the strings of his lyre, bringing pain to all of Nature. |
CD: Euridice
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| The muse, the braziers, the lyre, the rocky cliff, the midnight clouds. Calliope accedes to Orpheus' ardent request, allowing him to journey to the Underworld to face the cold Persephone and the prospect of bringing back Euridice. |
CD: Euridice
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| Untold shades and fiends of lore threaten the song of the wanderer. |
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CD: Euridice
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| Darkling, the shades of the curious encircle the handsome youth like turbulent zephyrs stayed by a gracious counter-wind from the north as Orpheus lightly touches his harp, its glow dancing upon jagged corners never before or since so illumined. Looking continually down, Orpheus silently takes a cold hand in his and strides to the passage from whence he has come, towards a seemingly distant memory of light. Long and hard is the way for the living and the newly dead. |
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CD: Euridice
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| The echoing crunch of rock whispers into the endless tunnels of dust and age as the personified song guides Euridice, blind to her presence, deaf to the footfalls of a disembodied spirit. The son of Calliope and Apollo begins to slow, wondering at the brief words of the icy queen, the bride of Hades, a warning to never look upon Euridice until well inside the land of the living. Perhaps he has been tricked. |
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CD: Euridice
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| Orpheus stands in the silent passage near the exit and thinks long on the question of what he might be bringing to the Living World. Euricide’s silence, a command of Hades, does not further trust in the dark Olympian, and a momentary thoughtlessness brings the eyes of the wanderer to hers. Indeed Hades had been true to his word; she is there, a longing sadness pervading her stare, in essence, in vapor, then . . . nothing. |
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CD: Euridice
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| Suffering the horrible affliction of loss, Orpheus, reaches the outer world a mere fragment of what he once was. Days of disunity, his soul and nature, end in death, his shell dismembered by the riotous Bacchae. |
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CD: Euridice
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| Orpheus' senses are quickly awakened by the actions of the brutal females of the wood, Dionysus' hoard. His un-dismantled inner self is soon taken by Hermes into the realm of shades to there abide in a place of reflection. |
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| Aurora finds some of the remains of the youth eaten by wild beasts and others floating down the river Hebrus to eventually wash upon the shores of Lesbos. However, the soul of nature's musician prepares to reunite with the guardian of his heart, Euridice the faithful. |
MP3.com CD: Euridice - buy it!
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| Nature finally exhales as the lovers reunite just beyond the Elysian Fields in a place of solitude and enchantment. A new song of hope captivates the world of the living, and a renewed spring brings a rebirth to a dead winter. |
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