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Black Annis​/​Jardin de Lumi​è​re

from Notes of Being by Spiral Dance

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Legend has it that Black Annis, a one-eyed wizened crone with sharp teeth, long black claws and a blue face, haunted the area around the Dane Hills in Leicestershire. She was said to hide in a giant oak, long since felled, that was once part of a great forest covering the area, and from this elevated perch she would leap out and disembowel unwary travellers. Although partial to all human flesh, it was believed that she took particular delight in eating young children, whom she flayed alive, then hung their skins like a grisly trophy upon the walls of a cave known as Black Annis' Bower. Local children are still discouraged from straying too far from home with the words “Black Annis will get ya!”
Jardin de Lumière was the first tune Paul wrote in Australia and was inspired by the last dancing shards of evening sunlight piercing through the lofty gum tress in his garden.

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By the ancient walls of Leicester town
follow the winding pathway down
don't linger for a minute or an hour
when the black moon is riding high
and the wind is screaming 'cross the sky
'tis the art of the Witches power
she's fey cursed they say beware you'll rue the day
that you strayed to Black Annis' bower

If you're on Dane Hills in the dead of night
be sure to hold your luck stone tight
for they say that the blue face hag waits near
and from the Earth where the leaves lie dead
she'll arise from her wintery bed
and with her darkness feed upon your fear
but the old crone is wise she'll shape-shift before your eyes and move her spirit through the atmosphere

For Black Annis is my name
and now that you've heard of my fame
it's with a lack of understanding you may slight me
for they say that I'm mad howling wild
but I am the earth mother's child
and I walk with the elements around me
don't forget that I the crone am much older that you know
shake the shadows from your mind and harken to me
maiden, mother, crone I be another aspect of the three
so bide your time until I call for thee

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from Notes of Being, released June 17, 2020
Adrienne Piggott / Paul Gooding

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Spiral Dance Adelaide, Australia

With a combination of haunting vocals, intoxicating guitar riffs and groovy accordion lines, underpinned with potent bass and dynamic percussion, Spiral Dance presents an eclectic blend of traditional folk-rock with powerful self-penned songs and tunes. Rousing melodies intertwine with tales of Magick, myth and legend - music that will rock your ancestors! ... more

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