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Djinn - full album 2008

by Louisa John-Krol

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Wish I could follow Ancient tomorrow To the mountaintop with Oberon! Wish I could fathom Dreams of the Diadem Chalices haunted by hebanon Wish I could jingle Shoal and the Shingle Rummage among the lost paragon Wish I could tarnish those who would banish Emperors of the fey wilderness Cauldron of Morning, I come Greymalkin! Paddock calls! Anon! Come in Chimney Djinn …
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Here, darling do not cry, years will be lullaby; Reach for me over the great grey Sleep - You won’t be lonely, you will see: I’ll be waiting by our Wishing Tree. Green light the castle door, sands of a lost sea roar Set all your merhorses free! You will come riding here with me. Ooh I still feel your skin, I feel you moving in, See the Glashtin in the tide - Riding the Moonlight Where the old wizardry writes: ‘If the Blue Beyond the Sky don’t say nothing, don’t even cry, then the truth behind your eyes could be anything, spinning your life … over’ Darkness that Little Sleep, walks in the poem of deep Seeks out the lovers to bear them home We’ll sail together, don’t you know?
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Returning home again, where confusion reigns, my resolution caged in endless refrains: There in the distance larks descend, carrying balm from distant lands: and I am the djinn - Should I hide or should I play? Entangled in this fray my fantasies of gain, follow me to Spain: There … Shards of broken dreams scatter into paeans; the shadows of the night ferry me from fright …
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‘born of a race of strange things of deserts, great temples, great kings’
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They come: the party’s on the road! I n’er know how Roaming is the Role, and Romeo is journeying onto the snow: The Lie comes, The Lie will riddle my home! A wave will glisten the tarmac, an aeroplane on my mudflap; the Matador’s playing cards while the bull talks to the bard … My Role is to fly, the Lonesome can survive, t’ Lost come to the Fire the rule is to come on dancing, and I’ll never succumb to the laws of the Humdrum, sleeping with the sun, drifting with the clowns … The Lie comes, the Cheetah Cubs are in town! the Sphinx sighs, the Lynx can jinx her way down the Bee Bumps the fire hydrant and the water spouts to the sky: cars turn to mushrooms – right in front of my eyes! The Lie comes, The Lie will riddle my home! the Ocelot is trumping you to your bone; the Bee Bumps the Beautiful Lie: say Hello to the Beautiful Lie …
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Fai 02:58
How now, o’ spirit! Whither wander you? Over thine hills, over yonder dale On through the bushes, on, on through the briar; Over park, over pale, through flood, through fire I do wander … everywhere, Swifter than the Moon! (yes, even the Orb’s sphere!) Here … Hear Bring your fey favours, loll in sweet sloth; Sleek Midnight savours, vapours of the broth Oberon blinks bees, passing fell an’ wrath – Hang a pearl in every ear! There’s a changeling in the Moon! And your Dream Cat taps the Loom And she’s here, Black Djinn spins near And she’s far, dancing with stars …
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Dulcinea 01:49
O Little Blue Bobbin’ Bell, Hey lay-lo, Dibble-dee faerie toe, dainty toe - O little dub by the dell, Ho! A Genie with a halo, Hey lay-lo, Nay nay no - O Djinn, O Djinn, won’t you play your part? Begin, Begin, to open your heart - To Dulcinea! O Little Blue Bobbin’ Bell, bold as Madame Binjai with a silver-black nose - love your nose! O Little blink by the well, Ho! A Diva with a dibbler, Bee Ballerina toe, dainty toe. ('Cervantes, we also love you!' – Dulcie)
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Part I: 'Jinn Jinnee' Jinn-Jinnee, O' Jinn-Jinnee, you're waiting by the almond tree, I wish you happy, rustling years dancing your smile around the leaves; deeper than the sweet black sea, with genie eyes of golden green, now dive into the dusky eve, Jinn-Jinnee… Catakins, catakins, little green paws by the walnut tree
Jinnie-Jinn, Djinn…kitty-cat bells on a crackling bean; Little Black Faerie Come to me; wild Pantherlina, Burmese Queen: down the Chimney - One, Two, Three! – blows a burly storm and me, I love you Jinn-Jinnee and things may come, and they may be, for the dear beautiful bonny Jinn-Jinnee Part II: ‘Sardathrion’
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Tree 02:55
If there’s only one thing who knows how to move me it’s grey-blue-green, and it lies inside the Tree! As the years have shown us, we’ll go too far down into the green light, to a space of our own. Sly tree, you know me: I’ll have you … ! I can’t say: How many shadows could I hold? And ages span with my life, being trees, in the still breathing of their leaves - Oh an’ when the light falls, could I travel where the sun goes? - sinking down into the Tree. Feel the darkness moving, in her slow cooling when the rain is slipping down, down, you can hear the wood-knot sigh There are oceans in here, creeping over me with their infinitely blue-green hands! Lines … slowly, drink of me too ... ! Then tell me: How many shadows ... etc (repeat chorus, ibid)
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yellow leaves, come to me - don’t you leave me blind! When the world hums long and loam When the distance bids you roam When the sea turns green and brine When you find your time…. turning ‘n burning in dream, golden you hold onto me, coiling our fire in the tree, and we will be summer, when the snow comes to the air they breathe, in the fall of the yellow leaves
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Wendigo, Wendigo, Chimney Row; the cat’s got pistachios but the wind won’t blow! Wendigo, Wendigo, fall below; the cat’s got its whiskers but the wind won’t blow!
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Lu-Lu’s not here, but Lu-Lu might hear! Feijoa Faerie, feline-a-lady, hey nonni overday Bryn o’ briar, I’m in a dream jar, a thousand locks to try … Oh, don’t you know gold burns the fire? Oh, won’t you turn the key of the pyre?
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Nine blue panthers ran you down, roaming an’ gloaming your apple round; our Meadow of Poppies turned brown, and pelicans turned into clowns - Away and Away and Awake: a Retinue of Mandrakes were coming to break over you. Juniper berries will shake, Your green heart will probably ache, So tarry we’ve merry to make: a Retinue of Mandrakes are coming to wait upon you. Twenty-Nine Sirens were hauling down your days and your gaze on the ever-now So play and delay and be laid in their lake; Be laid and be swayed in their lake. Away and Away and Awake: a Retinue of Mandrakes Are dying to take over you! They’re coming for you …
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Aphelion 04:28
Dwindling away in the sun, Shivering over Oblivion Lion and Leopard will come, Shuffling on to Aphelion be my Sister, my Darkness, my Orcus, my Orbit, my Hourglass, my Impasse, my Planet, my Amulet, my Dreamcat, my Daemon, my Distance, my Artemis, my Nadir, my Nebula …
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Colours of angels, shadows of gold, brushing the oceans, under your soul Cats are Angels, sent from the Void, to rekindle our Wonder …

about

Djinn, Le Mystère des Chats, is our 6th solo CD (2008), our 4th and final on French fairy-world label Prikosnovénie, before I signed off to move on. Djinn celebrates the mystery and mystique of cats.

Norse ribbon Gleipnir was crafted by dwarfs from the
sound of a walking cat. When Mohammed saw his cat
Muezza asleep on his robe, he cut a sleeve in respect. As
17th century Seine flooded in Spring, one cat became so
popular scooping fish, Parisians named a street after him:
the Rue du Chat-qui- Pêche. From Egyptian Sekhmet &
Bastet, to Royal Cats of Siam; Welsh King Hywel Dda, to
Japanese elopers Koma & Gon; Mityan of the Wotjobaluk,
to jaguar guards of the Mayans; Puss 'n Boots to Bagheera,
Aslan & the Cheshire Cat … these are the emirs of dreams.

‘Thou art the Great Cat, avenger of the Gods, judge
of words, president of sovereign chiefs and governor
of the holy Circle; thou art indeed ... the Great Cat.’

- Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes

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released May 17, 2021

Composition: Mark Krol & Louisa John-Krol

Our longtime producers Harry Williamson and Brett Taylor share this lion's meal, with guest engineer Theodore Wohng on two dishes; other guests include Frédérique Henrottin (Keltia) on Harp and Dandelion Wine on bowed Psaltery & Dulcimer. Naomi Henderson and Samantha Taylor share the Flute playing.

Special thanks to our principle muses on this album, Djinn and Dulcinea, with love to all fairy lions and their protective deities.

Album cover art & design: Sabine Adélaïde of Prikosnovénie, France.

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Louisa is an Australian singer, composer, writer & faery storyteller who has released many albums of ethereal music on indie labels, primarily in France. She's completing a fantasy series, The Elderbrook Chronicles, with a soundtrack.

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