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Escalder's Tree Ride

from Apple Pentacle - full album 2005 by Louisa John-Krol

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Escalder The Green Lady is an enchantress in my Elderbrook Chronicles (as of March 2021, still unfurling). Escalder dives into a tree to meet her lover Thelderbrin and his brother, Sir Malder of Malnerholm.

From our 5th solo CD Apple Pentacle, released in 2005 on Prikosnovénie, Escalder also turns up in our other albums.

'I still feel the emerald lymphe of the thousand leaves I have swallowed.
And I sing.'
- Francesca Nicoli (Ataraxia), Arcana Eco, 2005.

lyrics

You want me down darling, let me be!
For I am in love with the Lord of a Tree
And I’m riding to the good Sir Malder …

Saraway told me he was lithe* as the wings of bees
But he got his blood from the Mountain -
Told me I’d find him in the body of Tree
Where his blood flows back to the Mountain -

So I stole through his spirit
Like a beetle in the shivering seas,
I was lost in here for centuries – for the love of Tree!
Of the seven seas inside you, Time is only one:
I stirred them all as I floated through
And then my fingers touched the ground.

(Sometimes in singing this, I replace 'lithe' with 'fleet'. Just a whimsy.)

credits

from Apple Pentacle - full album 2005, released April 1, 2021
Lyrics, Melody: Louisa John-Krol, mid 1980s
Vocals: Louisa John-Krol
12-string / acoustic Guitar & Hammered Dulcimer: improvised by Harry Williamson
Produced with & engineered by Harry Williamson, Spring Studio

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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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