track 7 from Ghost Towns and Fool's Gold
https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-towns-and-fools-gold

This track features the sound of a Phonautogram.
The very earliest known audio recording dates to April 9th 1860. It's a slow rendition of "Au Claire de la Lune", sung by the inventor of the Phonautograph, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. It was unheard until 2008! He sang very slowly:
"Au clair de la lune
Mon ami Pierrot
Prete-moi ta plume
Pour écrire un mot."
What printmaker Martinville really wanted was to create an automatic method of writing, like a dictaphone. Quite by accident he created audio recordings instead.
"Au clair de la lune
On n'y voit qu'un peu
On chercha la plume
On chercha du feu"
In the song - Harlequin - a fool - goes searching for a pen, but instead finds love!
Sometimes the treasure you seek is not the one you find.
"Love is the only gold."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

This piece is dedicated to my brother Robert.

Fool's Gold

Lo! 'tis a gala night within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight in veils and drowned in tears
sit in a theatre, to see a play of hopes and fears,
while the orchestra breathes fitfully
the music of the spheres

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/memento-mori-memento-vivere-16-dances

Twelfth Dance

Speak silence with thy glimmering eyes,
And wash the dusk with silver.
- William Blake

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/eleventh-hour

To The Evening Star

Sample track from Imaginary Movies - an album iheavily influenced by Latin jazz, space age lounge music, spy movies, and mid-20th century popular fiction. There are swanky horns, hipster beats, twangy Bond-style guitars and eerie Theremin. Think of it as a vinyl record with two sides, and two stories. Just put it on the HiFi, relax on the Davenport, close your eyes, and create your own movies in your imagination.

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-movies

Charmayne

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature. - Joseph Campbell
In ancient times, human beings walked in step with the cosmos, danced the circle dances of the earth moon and stars. The passage of time marked only by the shadows of dead trees and standing stones.
Then came the weary age of straight lines neither true nor fair. Life was now measured by the clicking gears of our shiny new clockwork sun. And we became clockwork people. And the shadows we cast became clockwork shadows.
But we each carry the Golden Age within us, even so. And in the hushed cool darkness at the still point of the turning world, we dance again to the Music of the Spheres... matching again the beat of the universe.
The text to this track "sine sole sileo" is a common inscription on sundials, and means "without the sun I'm silent"

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/clockwork-shadows

video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqqe08q8pE8

Sine Sole

so fast you can't see him, the ghost rider
leaving a tracer on the retina,
the light writer on a bike
dipping down into the flickering city
to the water's edge
there you'll find a trail to follow
to oak's bottom bog, where there still stands one old tree
it's hollow
were you to be watching you'd see a brief flicker of light in the old crumbling limbs
and the sound of singing, a mysterious hymn
sung into the deep green darkness
what is decay but life?

the night is full of expectancy
it could be love, it could be danger, it could be about to rain

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/we-in-the-tree

We in the Tree

Track 20 from 
The Fool and The World

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/the-fool-and-the-world

The Tower

Track 5 from Sigils
https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/sigils

watch the movie -
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWoU_eMuVa7M8PX8LfIkN7SJVj8U7W7fP

Seedpods And Spirals

once upon a time
i dreamt that i was a butterfly
fluttering by happily
not knowing who i was
then i awoke
a human being, plain old me
i thought to myself
"did i just dream that i was a butterfly?
or is there a butterfly somewhere right now
dreaming that it is a person?"
this is metamorphosis

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/the-butterflys-dream

watch the video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t--5Tim-D6g

The Butterfly's Dream

Track 8 from The Winter Queen

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/the-winter-queen

Song of the Magi

Track 7 from Blue River
edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/blue-river

Ebb And Flow

moonlight in Colorado
Track 3 from Parvin Court

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/parvin-court

Lady Moon

eremia: an ancient Greek word meaning desert or wilderness.

track 6 from Steampunk Symphony

https://edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/steampunk-symphony

Eremia

Calm minimalist introspection, complex scintillating rhythmic grooves and future primitive invocations. Imaginative, mystical and life affirming music for your daily soundtrack.

Edward Givens

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