Instrumental Jazz/World Fusion - A 'tongue-in-cheek' composition featuring fretted and fretless bass guitars, electric guitars, and percussion (mostly doumbeks) playing jazz-funk patterns and also performing a panned call-and-response solo.
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worldfusion
jazzrock
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electricbass
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Story behind the song
The title refers to an ancient Mediterranean symbol, shown as a snake (or serpent) that is devouring its own tail, representing several concepts, such as: completion, totality, the endless round of existence, and any other cyclic patterns and principles used to describe humanity and/or nature. I thought the symbolism worked well given the extensive use of loops used, the sinuous movement of the arrangement, and its tie-in to the album's main concept: "The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This 'feed-back' process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilises himself and gives birth to himself. He symbolises the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima materia which [...] unquestionably stems from man's unconscious". ~ Carl Jung