We have a new track, debuting on NPR - listen here! For pre-orders for the album (LP/CD): UK/EU &

We have a new track, debuting on NPR - listen here! For pre-orders for the album (LP/CD): UK/EU & USA/ROW“Some of the themes explored by Red Goddess are mugwort and dreaming, the witch as an ambivalent and wild woman, and the psychic flux of the menstrual cycle. The moon is a symbol that joins these themes together, and one that comes to the fore in “Lady of the Flood.”“The sounds that open the track were originally recorded in West Kennett Longbarrow: the “womb of the goddess” in contemporary pagan psychogeography. Layla and Phil carried out a series of wordless vocal improvisations using only vowel sounds and the resonance of the chamber. These recordings were then manipulated under the influence of composer Kristina Wolfe’s spectral processing techniques. Wolfe has used these techniques, which break sound apart into individual spectral components, to affect her own music, which – like Hawthonn’s oeuvre – is at once archaic and contemporary. As the timbres in our voices shift and distort they begin to sound like horns being blown: the horns of the moon, perhaps?“The deep drone that arises from these unearthly sounds was synthesised by inter-modulating a series of oscillators tuned to various symbolic “lunar” frequencies, such as 3, 9, 13, 18 and 28 Hz. From these frequencies a deep drone emerges, with a slowly shifting overtone spectrum — a drone that seemed to evoke the mental image of a black, barren moon, slowly turning in space. Yet under its surface, water trickles through subterranean caves.“The lyrics for the track were improvised around a translation of an ancient Graeco-Egyptian spell for prophecy, which survives only fragmentarily on a sheet of time-ravaged papyrus held by the British Museum (EA105881). The charm concerns Isis, given the epithet “Lady of the Flood,” and Anubis:“[…] to Truth […] before you / incense […] to the […] your head […] land […] /look […] above / these […] Lady of the Flood (?)[…] [I]A IA OO […] in truth […] and we come into […] above after the […] Teach me. Show […] Anubis of […] [Spirit of] Darkness […]“The epithet “Lady of the Flood” links Isis to the Nile (where she hid her son, Horus), as well as to menstruation through the symbol of the annual flooding of the Nile. The invocation “to Truth” also resonates with Eleanor Morgan’s observation that “some feminist critical psychologists argue that, in those moments [of the pre-menstrual phase], perhaps our usual self-censoring is ruptured and we’re getting a window into our core issues – like some sort of hormonal truth serum.” -- source link

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