Name: Flake's Theme (unmixed)
Duration: 3 min 49 s
Channel: Ash Mandrake
Description: "Flake's Theme (unmixed)" is a song by Ash Mandrake. Poetry over classical opera. Flake tells of his benign nature, of his power to dispell darkness and his return to the form of water from ice.

Flake's Theme (unmixed)

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Poetry over classical opera. Flake tells of his benign nature, of his power to dispell darkness and his return to the form of water from ice.

the ash mandrake project

Ash Mandrake

medieval bardic operatic folky celtic customised guitar acoustic loop machine experimental

Ash Mandrake (Former Bard of Bath) Solo performer with loop machine work. Voice often compared to the late Tim Buckley. Music is medieval, classical, folky, experimental. Sometimes plays a double neck 16 string guitar (http://www.myspace.com/ashmandrake16) Founder member of the band The Mandrake Project (UK), afro-celtic-classical folk/rock/world

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Opera

Charts

Peak #7

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Ash Mandrake

Rights

Ash Mandrake

Uploaded

February 21, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 3:49

Story behind the song

The poem was written in tandem with "Shade's Theme", and was inspired by the making of two leather hats; one white, one black. Ash made the hats and the poems literally climbed out of them during the night.

The idea of knots and their breaking comes from personal experience. Somtimes, the feeling of entanglement and knottedness can be disolved, broken or melted by happiness and positivity. The character "Flake" has the benign power to do this.

Lyrics

Through wisps of cloud, I float in timeless trance. 
In the froth of waves, I play till seas fall still. 
In snow, I lie and sleep; 

For I am Flake. 

Two things I say to you: 
In the breaking of knots, there darkness is dispelled. 
Every snow-flake is a tiny cathedral. 

And light I am upon the air, 
And light I am to earth, 
Where here I sit waiting for the tenderness of melting; 
Wherein I shall unlock my form and trickle out to sea; 


For I am Flake

Copyright 2006 The Mandrake Project

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