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Raga : A Wistful Remembrance of a Late Summer Hazy Harvest Home

from Dark Summer Glimpses by Hermione Harvestman

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As a girl it was all about my birthday; this was Leo time as the summer holidays came to a chilly end and September beckoned with new beginnings by way of a mythic renewal right there as the leaves dry and the nights draw in and yet it was always just the beginning as the academic year beckoned with a more human sense of renewal; be it school, university, autumn was ever a time of rebirth.

In my dotage, I am wistful for new beginnings which only come out of a vivid sense that the old year turns at last to death. Of course this was what it was all about anyway, and it gets more so as you get older; ever stronger, ever more vivid as the meaning deepens until words vanish away altogether and we're left with the pure essence of life in all its perfect pointlessness.

I always said this was music to listen to in my dotage - all the elements mixed and improvised in real-time. The process is eternal - to improvise is the common core of the Universal Tao; it comes, it goes, it grows, it decays, and the only absolute is entropy. I hear it in this music as I look back from some other hill, one which I can no longer climb on account of my creaking bones.

But once upon a time there was a perfect day and a hazy harvest; I was there, and in my heart I'm there still, just watching, wishing I might remain thus eternally.

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from Dark Summer Glimpses, released August 22, 2014

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'I feel like Wainwright - we are both hermetic ramblers. He made his books for when he was no longer capable of rambling his beloved fells, and I made my music for when I'm no longer able to ramble the by-ways of Albion - but only to listen, and think "Was that really me? That solitary figure who stood in a landscape dreaming of ages past in dread fear of the future."

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