#Spooktober 30 – Grieve no More

October 30, 2023

I really liked season 1 of Carnival Row, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevigne, and this is the music that plays in the end credits. The artist calls herself Patty Gurdy and plays the hurdy-gurdy, a weird hand-crank string instrument with a keyboard that sounds a bit like a cornemuse and is typical of Galician folk music, and she also composed the lullaby that plays such a central part in the weird, fantasy-gothic investigative story of the tv series.

This song is no less intimate, and is sung by a mother to her child or by a lover to their sleeping darling. It tells of resistance and loss, displacement and exile, all themes of this incredibly powerful series.

Now rest you there, in spite of the storm that is raging
Faith goes and comes, as long as the seasons are changing
I am sure there is a safe valley for you and for me
Where we would fly, in joy we’d cry
For our blessed land
For what we strive, would come alive
And you would grieve no more

note to self

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