Name: Arabesques by Valhjim
Duration: 4 min 6 s
Description: --(C) Jim Valero, 2018 (all rights reserved).

very progressive! perhaps your best piece yet! 👍

Wow Jim this piece is fantastic, jazzy and progressive...!!

Absence (short version)

Midgard is a Germanic term for the world or the earth. The word has survived in this or a similar meaning as Gothic midjungards, Old Norse miðgarðr, Old English middangeard, Old Saxon middilgard and Old High German mittil(a)gart and was used in both sacred and profane language. Midgard, literally "middle court" or "middle garden", actually means the dwelling place of humans in the middle of the world. The gods (Asen) live in Asgard.

In contrast to the vertical world view of the world tree Yggdrasil, in the Norse imagination Miðgarðr (west) and Útgarðr (east) describe a horizontal, circular world view as two interrelated poles. This corresponds to the settlement structure of the north up to the time of the industrial revolution, in which the farmstead forms the center of the world.

However, the basic word garðr, which in medieval Scandinavia mainly stood for "farmstead", originally meant an enclosure, a border wall or fence, dividing the world into two opposing areas: an inside and an outside. The enclosed inside is the living area of man, where culture is possible under the protection of the gods, while the demons and giants live on the outside.

In Eddic literature, Miðgarðr is therefore not only the world of men, but also that of the gods. Miðgarðr is created by the gods, who build their castle Ásgarðr in it. They then assign Miðgarðr to the first humans Askr and Embla as their dwelling place. However, Miðgarðr is also sometimes used to refer to the wall or fence that protects the human world from the giants.

Midgard

No matter what the weather,
Whatever you do, just better 
Than any other thing around, 
I won't ever be your fool. 

You never know what to do,
So it's time for me to move, 
Now I gonna stay true to myself.

Do you know what that means
Coast to coast and then back to home,
I drove on old city roads,
And I really didn't know where I was going!

You never know what to do,
So it's time for me to move, 
Now I gotta stay true to myself.

'Cause too short, the time,
As bird on our shoulder,
In the blink of an eye,
It surely does fly

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Arabesques

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.

Arabesques

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