In
the forest of Faerie waits the Chrysalis
a fragile hope
of wings to come
Forest's Chrysalis
Forest's
Chrysalis
is an
original musical song-story played on solo 36-string Celtic harp. (The "story behind the story" is here).
The harp sings of the
ancient Faerie Chrysalis, protected by a forest that has roots in Faerie and in
other,multiple realities.
On a clear spring day, as maturing wings begin to show
within the Chrysalis, clear-cutting and building
decimate a part of the forest in human reality. Returning birds circle
above the destruction, keening their grief. The cleared forest erodes the
Chrysalis' ties to Faerie, trapping the Winged One in a partially open, crushed, Chrysalis.
Intruding across the realities is now a barrier, a nonliving cage of steel and asphalt.
The Chrysalis cries for
help. The winds and water respond,creating a storm.
An aged
tree, one of the forest giants, offers itself to the lightning, crashing down
to form a bridge back to
Faerie.
The forest sings a grateful requiem to the fallen.
The Winged One escapes the
Chrysalis, dancing free across the forest. Faerie renews its warding
to protect the next Chrysalis to form.
The freed Winged One rises into
the sky.
(There are three bonus
tracks)
Track List
1. Prelude to Chrysalis
2. Chrysalis
3. Spring Morning
4. Mourning
5. Wings (caged)
6. Storm
7. Requiem
8. Dance, Two
9. Chrysalis 2
10. Warding Song v2Gx3
11. Wings (free)
12. Rumor's Mirror
13. Songspel1
12. Exit stage left x4
The Forest's Chrysalis CD is available through CD Baby, or in person at a Harpsidhe concert.
All Harpsidhe CDs are packaged
in a recyclable, environmentally-conscious jacket* without a jewel case.
The extra information that would have been included in a jewel case enclosure
is on this page.
(*but they still have shrink wrap. Working on it.)
