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Cormorant Song

from New Myths by Clair Le Couteur

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The myth of Æsacus and Hesperie. Written in F minor which, as Glenn Gould put it, is "rather dour, halfway between complex and stable, between upright and lascivious, between gray and highly tinted..." The different tones (and the "clack") are produced using the piano's moderator stop.

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I used to chase Hesperie all through her father's fields. I'd come across her bathing, combing her long silver hair.

(I was in love, I was in love with her.)

I used to chase Hesperie all through her father's fields, but now matter how swift my love, the fleeter was her fear.

And then one day I saw her stop the chase and lay down in the grass. And in my pride... and in my pride I thought,
'At last.'

There was a snake in the grass that reached out its teeth deep into her calf. I got there to find her dying; I spent some time trying to suck the poison out. It was the only kiss we shared, with her lying there and me trying not to look at her bared legs.

After a while I got back up. And went to where the foam leaps up from the stones. I dropped like a stone.

(But as I fell, I felt my arms turn into wings. As I fell, I felt my throat lengthening. And when I hit, I hit without a sound. And when I came up again, a fish was in my mouth.)

Curse you, Tethys. Curse you, Tethys.

I used to chase Hesperie all through her father's fields. And now I cast myself again again again into the sea; it always yields.

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from New Myths, released December 12, 2017

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LUNATRAKTORS Waterford, Ireland

Broken folk experiments by Clair Le Couteur (vocals, drones) and Carli Jefferson (vocals, percussion). MOJO Magazine Top Ten Folk Albums 2019 & 2021. Weird musical performances in the Anglo-Celtic tradition.

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