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Which Of These Worlds?

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

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‘He is a council member, a banker, a judge,
Weighing his needle-tipped fate while it’s spinning’
- Sandor Weores

From our 5th solo CD Apple Pentacle, released in 2005 on French fairy-world label Prikosnovénie, this song explores the possibility of traversing multiple incarnations.

Its premier performance and visual presentation was at the Trolls et Legendes festival in Mons, Belgium, 2009 and at Faerieworlds festival in Oregon, USA later that year. The video's designers are acclaimed puppeteers, illustrators & filmmakers Toby & Brian Froud from England.
Courtesy of Robert Gould, Imaginosis, America.

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and here's a world in which I can fly,
and here's a lake I skim like a mermaid,
here's a world where I'm imprisoned, 
here's a pentagram of spells
that take a shape and burn like fire,
and here's a world where I beg for my life,
and here's a pleasure screamed with delight,
and here's a street I stalk as a vampire,
here's a world where I am a queen,
and here's a world where love reigns supreme,
and here's a world where I cannot walk.

And which of these worlds will I cry for?
And which of these worlds will I yearn for?
And which…. world did I choose?
And which of these was I thrown into?

and here's a lever lowering a bridge
that's leads to castles far in the wood,
and here's a carriage in which I ride
to my demise, my execution,
here I dance with daggers of steel
and here I run with wolves to the sea,
and here's a plate where poison is placed,
a gun to end the life of a rebel
here is snow where a life did expire,
and here's a banquet filled with mirth,
and here's an edict that would make
a billion people into slaves,
and here's a hole that leads to my freedom,
here's a shroud concealing a grail,
and here's a flag, and here's a sail
to take me to the next galaxy.

credits

from Apple Pentacle - full album 2005, released April 1, 2021
Vox Ostinato line: Louisa John-Krol, prompted & recorded by Olaf Parusel in Stoa Studio, Halle, Germany, 2003
Lyrics & main Vocal Melody: Mark Krol
Arrangement: Brett Taylor
Thunder, male Choir, Loops, Samples, other effects: Brett Taylor
Delayed Midi Dulcimer riff: composed by Mark, played by Louisa, programmed by Brett Taylor
Other Keyboards (Piano, Mellotron, Orchestral Midi, Synths): Brett Taylor
Percussion, including Drum Kit, Church Bells, Cymbals, Timpani
Engineering & mixing by Brett Taylor at Pilgrim Arts, Australia

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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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