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Canaan Balsam - Tomorrow Is Our Most Painful Myth

from The Romance Of Odysseus And Calypso by Sounds Of Ogigia

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    According to Homer's "Odyssey" the nymph Calypso, who resided in the island of Ogygia, put a spell on the sailor Odysseus who shipwrecked on the island when on his way to Ithaca.
    After being abducted for 10 years he was freed from the psychedelic state of the love spell.
    Calypso died of grief when Odysseus sailed back to his wife Penelope.

    This compilation is a musical representation of the myth. An ode to passion and psychedelia.

    Musically speaking the compilation is a flow of evocative sounds ranging from fourth world, new age, psych-rock, dark ambient, techno, dub & electronica that provide an epic wholeness to the concept.

    The tape’s artwork is an abstracted portrayal of Odysseus, encapsulating a gloomy, dream-like state of mind prevailing when under a spell of seduction. He is as the island beneath his feet, surrounded by emptiness of the sea, trapped with nowhere to go.

    Music by MR. TC, Koyil, Canaan Balsam, Opake, Warzou, HLM38, Yssue, Salamanda, Misha Sultan, Emme Ya, Audan Karrett, Jebel Musa and Juan
    Design by Vanja Rakic
    Label run by Pako Vega
    Mastered by Sam Smith at Green Door Studio in Glasgow

    SoundCloud snippets: soundcloud.com/soundsofogigia/va-sounds-of-ogigia-the-romance-of-odysseus-and-calypso-soo02

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I take this love
For a poison
I softly dissolve it,
In an ocean of drink
The way you get rid
Of a bottle of poison
In the open sea
[over the side of a ship]

The waves below are untroubled
The poison is freed
From the terrible weight
Of being a poison

How can you leave this isle
For the wretched seas
That have been so cruel
That have taken so much

Who are you to recant paradise
For the grim, misery of man
Forsake gold, for the dirt and filth, of another shore

The past is a rotting corpse, the future a burial mound
The present is ever-lasting for you are becoming a god
You are passing through the veil of mortal man
Swaying like a golden shuttle, upon the loom of eternity,

Who can ever really go home?
Achilles, grasping fame in his dead hands
Agamemnon, returning to betrayl and blood
Who can ever really go home?
Who can ever really go home?

I can hear her whisper under the oceans cruel waves
Come back to Ogygia my beloved
Come back to Ceuta my beloved

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from The Romance Of Odysseus And Calypso, released November 21, 2021

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Sounds Of Ogigia is an arts label inspired by the ancient Greek gnosis and ritualistic music

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