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From our second CD Alexandria: The Renaissance was a time of discovery that changed the way we thought. A flat earth would give way to a globe revolving round the sun*; village life would give way to city life and later, the Industrial Revolution; feudal hierarchies of aristocracy and church would give way to the State, to merchants and the rise of capitalism; old superstitions (from fireside tales and agricultural folklore, to the persecution of witches) would give way to scientific rationalism and the Age of Reason.

* Note: It is claimed "The misconception of medieval people believing in a flat earth was begun and perpetuated by Washinton Irving in his biography of Columbus." (Thanks to Angelee Sailer Anderson for this information)

The year is 1500. We are at a fair, attended by a young woman. She stands poised on a shift in consciousness: from her inner world and old village ways, to a technological future. She meets a centaur, who hints of coming change; until she realises that no-one else can see him.

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It was the dawning of Fifteen Hundred
and all my village was at the fair -
I’d bought me a spindle an’ bread an’ spice
and peddled my garlands for ladies’ hair.

I’d rounded the stage of a troupe of players,
drawn by the shape of a stranger thing:
from ground to torso a mighty stallion,
waist to head t’was a man!
“Hush now, tell not a soul!
Things of my kind are fading...”
He told that there was no stronger army
than the sweep of a changing thought.

He lowered his eyes and he smote the turf
and waved a forehoof across the air -
as if to say we had done him wrong,
or was it a warning of things to come?
“Lines are already drawn,
this world will be sundered in two
And from now on you will only meet me
champing the path of your dreams.”

T’was then that I saw he had cast no shadow
and not a soul seemed to notice him -
I thought I caught sight of a tear escaping
as he had turned and his form had dimmed:
“Go!” cried he, “Go like the wind,
five hundred years are grumbling”
and like the sound of iron on stone,
his plunging hooves were gone.

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from Alexandria - full album 1998, released February 4, 2021
Lyrics: Louisa John-Krol, except for the last line, which is from a poem ‘The Listeners’ by Walter de la Mare.
Music: Louisa John-Krol
Vocals, Mandolin: Louisa John-Krol
Keyboard riffs (Midi Horns/ Bugel / Shawm): Louisa John-Krol, programmed by Harry Williamson
Medieval Soundscaping, Tambourine, various Hand Drums
Agora sample (bustling market square): Harry Williamson
Produced with & engineered by Harry Williamson, Spring Studio
Photo-art: Louisa John-Krol depicting ancient centaurs from the Villa of Cicero, Pompeii, Italy.

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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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