Name: Fai
Duration: P00H02M57S
Description: From the album Djinn, on French fairy-world label Prikosnovénie. One of several songs about my late familiar, our beloved ebony fairy lion pantherlina muse, it borrows & adapts imagery from Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream’, with our own twists and twirls.

Fai

from North of the Moon - Three Australian Faerie Bards by Louisa John-Krol, Adrienne Piggott, Reilly McCarron

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From the album Djinn, on French fairy-world label Prikosnovénie. One of several songs about my late familiar, our beloved ebony fairy lion pantherlina muse, it borrows & adapts imagery from Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream’, with our own twists and twirls.

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How now, o’ spirit! Whither wander you?
Over thine hills, over yonder dale
On through the bushes, on, on through the briar,
Over park, over pale,
Through flood, through fire
I do wander
I do wander everywhere
Swifter than the Moon!
(Yes, even the Orb’s sphere)
Here … Hear …

Bring your fey favours, loll in sweet sloth;
Sleek Midnight savours, vapours of the broth
Oberon blinks bees, passing fell an’ wrath -
Hang a pearl in every ear!
(Every dewy cowslip’s ear)
There’s a changeling in the Moon,
And your dream cat taps the Loom
And she’s here,
Black Djinn spins near
And she’s far,
Dancing with stars …

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from North of the Moon - Three Australian Faerie Bards, released April 1, 2021
Lyrics: Mark Krol, with input from Louisa John-Krol & Djinn, adapted from dialogue between Puck and Fai in Act 2, Scene 1, of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Music: Mark Krol, with input from Louisa, arranged by Brett Taylor
Vocals: Louisa John-Krol
Production: Brett Taylor at Pilgrim Arts, Coromandel Valley, South Australia
Imagery: cover art for Louisa's CD Djinn (2008, Prikosnovénie, France), designed by Sabine Adelaïde

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In Tree Time, three Celtic-Australians wove music with myth and fairytale. From Druidic circles to taverns, carnivals, fey indie labels, fairy shops, storytelling guilds, castles and audiobook soundtracks, they've fostered links between folklore and eco-spirituality. Hailing from three States of Australia, they joined webs at the Equinox, north of the moon. ... more

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