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he let fly from his hand his dear one - his hawk..
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a lament - the title is taken from some of the opening lines of the anglo-saxon epic poem, the Battle of Maldon.
ambient space rock psychedelic mood atmosphere acid guitar
Psychedelic Rock type stuff with a bit of ambient English whimsy chucked in with the motorik beats. Moody. The odd lyric.
It's a sort of melange. Always a tune or a riff (I like the repetition thing) and it's about atmosphere. If there was an ambient psychedelic acid stoner space kraut blues late 19th century folk revival largely instrumental rock section - we'd be in it.
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Genre
Rock • Instrumental Rock
Charts
Peak #1,537
Peak in subgenre #231
Author
harry attrill
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harry attrill
Uploaded
March 17, 2006
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MP3 5.7 MB • 128 kbps • 3:42
Story behind the song
the battle of maldon is an amazing poem - the youth inquestion lets his beloved hawk fly free before going to battle, where presumably he was killed - as the Saxons lost the battle to the Danes - so the tune is about the sadness of the young warrior , Offa's kinsman' at releasing his hawk (a symbol for putting aside his pastimes for the serious business of fighting) and the hawk, flying to the wood, perhaps looking down at the slaughter and seeing his 'master' slain. But now of course the hawk is free, so there is a bittersweet quality... well that's the theory
Lyrics
I have tried to render the following lines from the poem in Anglo-Saxon - apologies for ay mis-pronunciation on the track. 'he let fly from his hand his dear one - his hawk- to the woods and strode into battle'.
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