Friday, February 22, 2013

Omida Ecou


An old legend tells of a dark lady who stood on a mountain-top and sang the World into being.  At the foot of the mountain raged the dragons of confusion.  Their breath was like a many-coloured river that wove and lapped and twined around the mountain, as rainbow-ribbons around the maypole.  The dragon’s colourful breath brought consternation to the World, ensnaring and entangling those who espied its chimeric vapours as ephemeral clouds of the morning.  These bewitching strands and skeins of accordion, fiddle and decorative filigreed arabesque masqueraded before the sky in the morning of the day, sinuously snaking and swirling around as zephyrs that do to dance upon the air.  But from above, from the mountain’s lofty and far-sighted peak stood a dark woman who was the voice of song.  She it was who sang the World and she it was whose incanting  primordial voice held the loops of scattered colour, sound and zephyr, shaping them to fit her song, her chanting monotone that now swoops, abandoning form and formality, now chants in dark oneness.   This was the voice from the Heart, from out of the trees, in early morning, driving away the mists of confusion, in the morning of the day, the day of the World, fresh, vibrant, viridian, dark, of power primal and autochthonous.  The voice from the mountain levels out all illusion.   Cate mute cate slute.

                                                 


Doina din Dolj – Maria Tanase


Check this one out:   “Cate Mute Cate Slute” – Maria Tanase:

Bartok Romanian Dances, arranged for string orchestra:

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