This 10-song collection emerged in a rush over a 6-8 week period and is an ode to the literal and figurative Night. I really enjoyed the process of composing, singing and playing guitar, piano, drum, and synths on, and recording, producing, designing, mixing, and mastering for these songs at home and befitting this haunting, liminal time of Autumn in the North and Spring in the South hemispheres. It forms a part of making peace with and integrating the Jungian and global Shadows within and without, noting the complex beauty they can hold.
I’ve long loved the art of the Metaphysical and Romantic poets and composers, the pieces from the Baroque era, and the hazy, sweeping, nostalgic cinematic and -folk music of the 1960s and ‘70s; this record pays homage to that and much else.
Track 1 sets my music to words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem of the same name, track 2 to those of Emily Brontë’s, track 3 to John Clare’s “The Setting Sun”, track 4 to William Blake’s “Night”, track 5 to William Wordsworth’s poem of the same name, track 9 to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s, and track 10 to Edgar Allan Poe’s. Tracks 6 and 7 are original instrumentals. Track 8 orchestrates Bach’s Prelude 1. All but the Bach prelude share my music, and those nine songs are brand new from this time period.
The title draws from Henry Vaughan’s poem about the “deep but dazzling darkness” of the Divine, but this collection posits that there is no contradiction there and that one can experience the Ineffable for its majesty, profundity, gentility, and polarities. I hope you enjoy this, my 12th album, made with love and enthusiasm.
~ Deborah Stokol | Kairos Records
This 10-song collection emerged in a rush over a 6-8 week period and is an ode to the literal and figurative Night. I really enjoyed the process of composing, singing and playing guitar, piano, drum, and synths on, and recording, producing, designing, mixing, and mastering for these songs at home and befitting this haunting, liminal time of Autumn in the North and Spring in the South hemispheres. It forms a part of making peace with and integrating the Jungian and global Shadows within and without, noting the complex beauty they can hold.
I’ve long loved the art of the Metaphysical and Romantic poets and composers, the pieces from the Baroque era, and the hazy, sweeping, nostalgic cinematic and -folk music of the 1960s and ‘70s; this record pays homage to that and much else.
Track 1 sets my music to words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem of the same name, track 2 to those of Emily Brontë’s, track 3 to John Clare’s “The Setting Sun”, track 4 to William Blake’s “Night”, track 5 to William Wordsworth’s poem of the same name, track 9 to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s, and track 10 to Edgar Allan Poe’s. Tracks 6 and 7 are original instrumentals. Track 8 orchestrates Bach’s Prelude 1. All but the Bach prelude share my music, and those nine songs are brand new from this time period.
The title draws from Henry Vaughan’s poem about the “deep but dazzling darkness” of the Divine, but this collection posits that there is no contradiction there and that one can experience the Ineffable for its majesty, profundity, gentility, and polarities. I hope you enjoy this, my 12th album, made with love and enthusiasm.
~ Deborah Stokol | Kairos Records
