“But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars” Dante Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, lines 142-145
According to the Indian sage Sri Aurobindo one only gains entrance to the luminous crypt of soul after treading through the austerities and travails on the long path winding into it’s domain. Dante begins his Divina Commedia on a journey into the worst of all blues worlds, his path a decent into hell but, his differs from most blues tales because it is a woman that leads him not into but up from hell. This blues project recognizes an unfortunate misogyny that has become part of the genre due to its birth out of oppression and slavery. What better person to lead us out from this morass than Beatrice
lyrics
Enter into the luminous crypt of soul
in the hour before dawn, before the gods awake (4)
Virgil I’ll follow in dark wood
diverging with shadows ,
chiaroscuro patterns of light
whose tortured lives are tapestries
stitched upon our mortal shell
Infinity’s skin stretched taut across a mask of time,
tautologies of form, elastic in the mind of night
Virgil i’ll follow up a mountain
converging at the summit
of an earthly garden of delight
poised above our purgatories
Walk out with the mother of radiances
a traveler of worlds, ascending an occult stair
Beatrice, i’ll follow unto the stars
my will and desire
turned like a wheel by Love (5)
in a triad of epiphanies
toward the vectors of paradise
Cerebral palsy curbed his ability to play guitar the conventional way, so Nagoda learned double slide, this is his debut LP.
Bandcamp New & Notable May 8, 2014
