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Hyperborean Winds

from Viking Dreams by jimeddy

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The spoken intro is from the ancient Greek poet Pindar, and reflects some of his thoughts about Hyperborea.

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Hyperborean Winds (February 9, 2022)


(Spoken): “Never the Muse is absent from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry, and everywhere maiden choruses whirling…Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live”


Thus spake Pindar, 500 years before the Christ, of the Hyperborean tales

Herodotus and Homer also sang of this northern land beyond the whales

The mythic land of ice and fire, a thousand years before Viking sails

Captured Arild in its sway, in Norway’s fjords, frosts, and gales


Manfred Eicher set the stage, and booked the Rainbow first

So all would have the best in sound, and none would have the worst

In December 1996 the Oslo charts were all dispersed

Their liquid languid sound locked in, an alchemy well versed


Hyperborean winds, take me past all of what is known, and most of what is suspected

Away from this temporal place, to an ancient era by time neglected

Where myths and legends sweep the ice, and blow away all by cold affected

And bass, and sax, and sacred strings are blended…purified…perfected


Arild Andersen plucked his bass, his ostinato notes ran on ahead

Two saxophonists channeled wind, with their reeds they laid the sonic bed

Crystalline keys collided, but never moved the needle into red

While the strings and percussive wash sewed tight the pulsing common thread

(repeat Spoken intro; fini)

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from Viking Dreams, released March 14, 2022

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jimeddy Ann Arbor, Michigan

I no longer trade time for money, so I'm a lucky guy. Songwriter, music collector (at a pathological level); supporter of independent artists of all stripes. Open mic enthusiast, international traveler every chance I get. Forward in All Directions!

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