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Naught But Worn-Out Joy

from Alban Arthan

October 2nd, 2020
9 tracks
55:11
Alban Arthan
Alban Arthan
Naught But Worn-Out Joy
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Naught But Worn-Out Joy
Malfet
“When she died at last, her Lancelot came for the body, with his snow—white hair and wrinkled cheeks, to carry it to her husband’s grave. There, in the reputed grave, she was buried: a calm and regal face, nailed down and hidden in the earth. “As for Lancelot, he became a hermit in earnest…He entered a monastery near Glastonbury, and devoted his life to worship…and lived in glad austerities apart from man. He even learned to distinguish birdsongs in the woods. Arthur, Guenever, and Elaine were gone, but his ghostly love remained.” T.H. White. “The Book Of Merlyn.” The Once And Future King. Harper Collins, MCMLVIII, pp. CMXXII-CMXXIII.
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Dreams and death.

Credits

Art and music by Malfet

Tracks 3, 5, and 8 adapted from Morrowdim, "Wandering Songs," MMXIX

https://morrowdim.bandcamp.com/

Track 5 also adapted from Murk Rider, "Exile of Shadows," MMXIX.

https://murk-rider.bandcamp.com

Layout by Andrew Ross Fritts & Malfet

LP & CS editions mastered by Mammoth Sound

Dedicated to the stalwart berserker Nick Darway: a big man with a big heart and, most importantly, a big friend to us; and to the eternal shield-maiden warrior-Queen who once was, Queen who shall be: Maria Rice - a voice of astonishing innocence, a sublime and inspired poet of darkness and light, and the creator of Morrowdim.

I like to imagine that Nick and Maria are sharing great plentiful horns of cheer today in that land where the fae mead flows and the hearth glows everlasting.

Agápe, Éros, Philía, Storgē!

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