Lake Antiquity is a place of my imagining, where unicorns come to drink, visiting from the land of Kalinothorn.
It's from a double album Elderbrook, released 2017, an eco-friendly digipak with an illustrated lyric booklet: a soundtrack to my (still unfurling!) fantasy chronicles about The Land Below The River.
lyrics
'Antiquity'
I walked down to the lake in Malnerholm;
Saw a man with weary eyes an’ a heavy load; he said,
“I am troubled because I have answers that don’t satisfy me”
I told him: If you want to know…
Go, ask the stars that no-one has seen,
Where they shine between those galaxies far from home!
Go question the sunless night - through an eagle’s eye –
While the songs and seas... are calling to Antiquity.
So we talked and turned each others’ thoughts around;
Well he told me, “Life is a shadow of the mind...”
Search inside and lay your questions down:
How many people are to be born?
How long the tide will rise an’ fall,
Maybe time means nothing at all?
Ask the moon when she’ll refuse to shine,
borrow the prophet’s eyes
But the songs and seas are calling to Antiquity.
There’s a kind of reason that we’ve both denied;
don’t ask me why
Just go, ask the stars…
We’re calling… Calling to Antiquity…
And the songs an’ the seas, they’re calling back
Calling right back now, calling... to Antiquity.
Native birds of Australia (Scarlet Robin, Singing Honeyeater, Australian Magpie & Variegated Fairy Wren) from Favourite Australian Native Birdsong - Pure Nature Sounds, licensed from Listening Earth.
The initial acoustic version was recorded by Jack Setton of Mad Cat Sound (and appearing later in this compilation).
This more layered version features additional instrumentation:
Vibraphone: Simon Lewis, recorded by Jack Setton, Mad Cat Sound.
Male backing voices, keyboards & bass guitar: Brett Taylor
Trumpet: Liam Taylor
Flute: Samantha Taylor
This version produced & mixed by Brett Taylor, Pilgrim Arts, Australia
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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