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Music to sing, dance and dream to.  I wrote this for you and me. It's about friends exploring the Belize Barrier Reef. The song is named after one of the world's greatest dogs. Dr. Jeffrey Seymour, bass.

Cabo Clave (Island Version)

Lonely Road.lead vocal.Frank Scimia

PS Perkins: Guitars, bass, lyre, vocals
Ron Thomas: Autoharps, Drums

Production notes:
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Very early on we wanted to use autoharps on this song to create a sort of swirling backdrop, reminiscent of the harps in Indian/Bollywood soundtrack songs of the seventies.

Right away there were challenges because the song is in B flat and is not wholly diatonic to begin with, utilizing a chord built on the augmented lydian scale in the choruses. So rather than transpose the song to a more amenable key (since the chromatic bits weren't going to work no matter what key we used) we instead re-tuned the autoharp. Moving through the strings one by one we tuned them either up or down a half step where applicable to bring them into key. Where the augmented chord hit in the choruses, we excluded those notes so that the autoharp was filling the diatonic parts of the chords and omitting the accidentals. It took us several tries to get it right. In the end we arrived at a chord progression that could be strummed on the autoharp and the modified chords could be played with existing dampers.

We also tuned the lyre so that the top half of the strings included the chromatic augmented notes while the lower register of the lyre was tuned using the diatonic, so the lyre could play the melody all the way through both parts of the song.

The inspiration for this song was essentially fourfold:
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First, H.P. Lovecraft's terrifying necromancer Joseph Curwen (from "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward") who masked his true identity in order to thwart suspicion from his fellow townsfolk. He has many secrets lurking in his underground catacombs where he performs acts of necromancy most foul, extracting the "salts" of the dead in order to raise them at will and learn the secrets of ancient eldritch deities.

Second, a poem by Rudyard Kipling titled "En-Dor" which was a warning against the rise of spiritualism and the cost of communion with the dead in the early 20th century.

Third, the biblical Saul who traveled in disguise to visit a witch at the city of Endor in order to summon Samuel from the dead and garner advice on defeating the Philistines, but who only prophesies doom for Saul. Saul dies later the next day in the battle of Gilboa.

Lastly, the story of Odysseus communing with the underworld where he enlists the help of Tiresias to have a chat with the dead and secure for himself a safe journey home.

They all seek communion with the dead for one purpose: to gain knowledge which only those who have crossed over between realms might possess. 

Lyrics:
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A mask may reveal what it’s meant to conceal
From those who are standing beside us
Armor of pride, so we learn to abide
By the monsters which hide deep inside us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us
Oh, how they scratch and they bite us
The monsters which lurk deep inside us

Only to know what the professor knows

Eating black bread, wearing clothes of the dead
The soil soaked in honey around us
For fear if we failed, leave the ogre unveiled
And it’s back in the grave where they found us
Back in the grave where they found us
Freed from the ties which had bound us
Back in the grave where they found us

Only to know what the professor knows

In the catacomb vaults, we extracted the salts
From cadavers to lengthen our youth
Chanting the names at the edge of the flames
And a mirror to show us the truth
A mirror which speaks only truth
See how it seeks not to soothe
A mirror which speaks only truth

Only to know what the professor knows

In the underworld maze, in the night of no days
Concocting the plan we’re devising
Much to endure on the road to En-Dor
And to snatch from Elohim arising
To snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising
Snatch from Elohim arising

BARDS:Of The Shimmering Seraphs

The Professor

Silent Spring

Vidéo : https://youtu.be/Oi-bllS36W8

Plus fort
Texte      : Sanzen
Chant     : Did Wilkops
Musique : Alain Illos

Dans mes sanglots agiles,
je cherche les éclats.
D'un monde qui vacille,
à l'ombre des sanctuaires.
Plus fort que jamais,
par ta voix attiré;
j'irai sans inquiétude,
avant que je m'endorme.
Dans mes sanglots faciles,
avant que vienne la nuit,
à l'ombre des sanctuaires,
je m'assierai sans doute.
C'est pour toi que je vis,
plus fort que jamais.
Et j'attendrai le jour,
je te ferai l'amour.
Le monde vacille,
je guette les moments rares.
Et nos chairs mélangées
et nos vies enlacées.
Dans mes sanglots futiles,
deux grands vaisseaux glissant.
Je rêve d'océan,
de perles et de diamants.
Dans le jour finissant,
je rêve d'oasis.
Plus fort que jamais,
de notre amour naissant.
À l'ombres des sanctuaires,
je dépose une gerbe.
Tout au fond de l'abîme,
je ressens le péril.
Je presse sur ma poitrine,
tous les noms oubliés.
Tout au fond de l'abîme,
un jour, tu m'as trouvé.

Plus Fort  avec Did Wilkops

Le botaniste et la passante :    translated after the french text

Vidéo : https://youtu.be/MnaJ5q2uhbQ
Texte :      Yves 13
Chant :     Desdanova
Musique : Alain Illos


Moi je suis botaniste.
Pour mon plus grand bonheur,
au mois d'avril j'assiste
à l'éclosion des fleurs,
ce à quoi il existe
bien d'autres amateurs
et quelques hédonistes
à qui ça tient à cœur.
C'est au Jardin des Plantes
et au moment précis
que croisant un' passante
m'est arrivé ceci,
une rose pimpante
nous a dit : "Me voici !
Sentez, je suis fragrante !
Penchez-vous vers ici."
Et nous nous retrouvâmes
tous les deux étonnés
au-dessus de la fleur
en train de la humer,
narines qui se pâment,
le nez contre le nez,
séduits par son odeur,
quasiment enivrés.
Ses paupières mi-closes
m'ont donné le tournis.
Que voir là autre chose
que pétales vernis !
Ses lèvres étaient si roses,
je n'ai pu empêcher
que les miennes s'y posent
pour cueillir un baiser.
Il y en eut encore
que l'on n'a pas comptés.
Nous en fîmes éclore
toute une roseraie.
C'est qu'un parfum de rose,
ça peut ensorceler.
Subtile petit' cause
qui eut de grands effets.

The botanist and the passer-by

I'm a botanist.
To my great delight,
in April I witness
when the flowers bloom,
but there are
many other amateurs
and a few hedonists
to whom it is dear.
It's at the Jardin des Plantes
and at the precise moment
passing a passer-by
this happened to me,
a dazzling rose
said to us: “Here I am!
Smell, I'm fragrant!
Lean towards here.”
And we found ourselves
both astonished
above the flower
smelling it,
nostrils swooning,
nose to nose,
seduced by its scent,
almost intoxicated.
Her half-closed eyelids
made me dizzy.
What could I see there but
but varnished petals!
Her lips were so pink,
I couldn't stop
from touching them
for a kiss.
There were more
that we didn't count.
We made a whole rose garden
a whole rose garden.
It's just the scent of a rose,
can cast a spell.
A subtle little cause
that had great effects.

Le Botaniste Et La Passante avec Desdanova

STELLA STELLAIRE ÉTOILE POLAIRE
IT SEEMS TO ME YOUR FAMILY HAS LOVE IN THE AIR 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE THE POLAR STAR
TO EVERYONE AROUND YOU IT SEEMS THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE

PARFOIS LUNAIRE SOUVENT INTERSTELLAIRE 
FROM LONDON TO NANTUCKET INTERPLANÉTAIRE 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE A SHOOTING STAR 
FROM WHEREVER WE ARE YOU CAN BE SEEN BY FAR

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT THE VERY DARING PIPER TRAVELLING TO THE SOUTH POLE TO SERENADE THE PENGUINS?

STELLA STELLAIRE ÉTOILE POLAIRE
IT SEEMS TO ME YOUR FAMILY HAS LOVE IN THE AIR 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE THE POLAR STAR
TO EVERYONE AROUND YOU IT SEEMS THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE

FROM A BOOKISH MATRIARCHY A STELLA WAS BORN
A THEATER OPERATOR BACKSTAGE IN LONDON TOWN 
ENCORE
STELLA STELLAIRE ÉTOILE SOLAIRE
IT SEEMS TO ME YOUR LIFE’S GOT PLENTY IN THE AIR 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE THE SOLAR STAR
TO EVERYONE AROUND YOU IT SEEMS THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE

STELLA STELLAIRE ÉTOILE POLAIRE
IT SEEMS TO ME YOUR FAMILY HAS LOVE IN THE AIR 
STELLAR STELLA JUST LIKE THE POLAR STAR
TO EVERYONE AROUND YOU IT SEEMS THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE

YOU CAN ASK FLORA, WOLFGANG, ALEX, PETER, THOMAS, SIMON AND YOU CAN ASK FLORA 2 AND EVERY ONE AROUND
AND WHO KNOW ONE DAY IN PARIS WE CAN HAVE A DRINK AT
L'AMI LOUIS

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE VERY DARING PIPER?

THE VERY DARING PIPER (Lyrics) Song for Stella

This is how the sun feels when it first hits your face on a frosty morning... when the wait is finally over... just when you thought that the darkness was eternal, and you succumbed to the acceptance of being a creature of the night...

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