Peaceful End.3

Horace - The Odes
The Ambient Sessions

Music Written & Performed by Esslemont
Artwork by RF Pangborn
https://www.instagram.com/pangbornrf/


Book II
BkII:XVII We’ll Go Together

Why do you stifle me with your complaining?
It’s neither the gods’ idea nor mine to die
before you, Maecenas, you’re the great
glory, and pillar of my existence.
Ah, if some premature blow snatches away
half of my spirit, why should the rest remain,
no longer as loved, nor surviving
entire? That day shall lead us to ruin
together. I’m not making some treacherous
promise: whenever you lead the way, let’s go,
let’s go, prepared as friends to set out,
you and I, to try the final journey.
No Chimaera’s fiery breath will ever tear
me from you, or if he should rise against me
hundred handed Gyas: that’s the will
of all-powerful Justice and the Fates.
Whether Libra or fearful Scorpio shone
more powerfully on me at my natal hour,
or Capricorn, which is the ruler
of the waters that flow round Italy,
our stars were mutually aspected in their
marvellous way. Jupiter’s protection shone,
brighter for you than baleful Saturn,
and rescued you, and held back the rapid
wings of Fate, that day when the people crowding
the theatre, three times broke into wild applause:
I’d have received the trunk of a tree
on my head, if Faunus, the guardian
of Mercurial poets, hadn’t warded off
the blow with his hand. So remember to make
due offering: you build a votive shrine:
I’ll come and sacrifice a humble lamb.

BkII:XVII We’ll Go Together

Video can be watched here:
https://youtu.be/vKaOv1IjUdI
Greetings.

Spanish eyes, Engelbert Humperdinck, instrumental cover

I-Campanella Night

Portal

R E S P E C T

On Approaching an Oasis during a Storm

This piece explores my emotional response to climate change, something which is very much part of the historical moment of the world into which I was born.
The music is dissonant, the harmonies all being derived from the chord of the augmented eleventh familiar to many as a jazz chord also used in blues. The modification of an idea at the end of a fast rising octaphonic scale, inverting its first appearance (descending), is intended to convey the important message of spirited hope coming from practical activists such as Greta Tunberg who work to alter the balance of power between institutional inertia and ecological necessity.

I am dedicating this piece to her and to all fellow climate change activists both old and young.

Production and mastering by John Cafarella. This track uses the East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Library.

Cafarella

On Approaching an Oasis During a Storm(Revised 30 December 2022)

Tomorrow will bring something new, so leave today as a memory

The piece is based on two sequences, created on the Behringer Crave and the Korg Monologue.

Pieces

Passage

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So the album I've been working on for quite some time Neurotypical Empire Vol I 2244, is alas, still nowhere near completion. So I've decided to release a second song from it that is fully complete, called Memories Of The Invasion. In this song, we are introduced to the Neurotypical Empire, and how they will stop at nothing to make everybody identical to them and destroy all individuality and difference, and the terrible sacrifice that had to me made to stop them.

Memories Of The Invasion

Myrrh

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

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BkII:XVII We’ll Go Together

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