Orpheus In The Underworld. Vol II. "I Am A Child Of Earth And Starry Heaven, But Of Heaven Is My Birth"

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1.	I Am A Child Of Earth And Starry Heaven, But Of Heaven Is My Birth. I 06:36	buy track
2.	I Am A Child Of Earth And Starry Heaven, But Of Heaven Is My Birth. II 10:24	buy track
3.	I Am A Child Of Earth And Starry Heaven, But Of Heaven Is My Birth. III 08:46	buy track
4.	I Am A Child Of Earth And Starry Heaven, But Of Heaven Is My Birth. IV 09:36	buy track

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This album is inspired in the Orphic "Totenpass" that is written in the Orphic Gold tablets, especially in the gold leaf of Peleteia (300-200 BC), which says something like:

“I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven, but of Heaven is my birth:
this you know yourselves. I am parched with thirst and perishing:
give me quickly chill water flowing from Mnemosyne lake“

This Totenpass was meant to be recited after death, as means of showing to the judges of the Underworld that the person had been initiated in the Orphic/Dionysiac mysteries. Among many other things, this totenpass evokes Remembrance, remembrance of the divine-heavenly nature that dwells within all of us.

The four pieces of this albums are created and recorded in a single session, one for each piece, in a kind of flowing improvisation. There are some few occasional "incidents" and "errors" present in the recording. I decided to leave them, despite they would be easily edited, so to respect the very nature of the moments in which these sounds were created.

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released November 7, 2019

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orphiká Madrid, Spain

A drone, post-industrial and dark ambient project by Álvaro Barcala, under the name 'Orphiká'

The page where I release modern classical music is this other one:
alvarobarcala.bandcamp.com

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