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The Wicker Man

by flakebelly

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Inspired by a recent move to an insular island community. An acid-rock, psychedelic re-imagining of the Wicker Man ceremonies reputed to have been performed by the Ancient Britons. Drums, bass, guitar, piano and vocals creating a smoldering tumult, by turns both mysterious and enlightening.

I think this song perfectly captures the feel of a magical ritual and carries a sense of other worlds in it's unusual structure and hypnotic sound. It is as curious as the ritual act itself must have been. I think as listeners, we deserve to be challenged and confronted with new ideas and I feel this song serves as both a gateway to the numinous and a touchstone to classic psychedelic-rock. And indeed to our own collective past.

The Wicker Man ritual served to draw a line under what had gone before and to focus the collective on the struggles and pressures approaching. A proxy and scape goat, burnt with your sins but also a bridge between the earth and the gods. All things humanity sorely needs now.

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we have our ways, our ways find means
the Winter King and his harvest feast

burn the wood man! make him dead!
kill the thing he represents!
hoist him up with rope or string!
make him dangle! make him swing!

eternity is found again!
in the sea mixed up with the sun

burn the wood man! make him dead!
kill the thing he represents!
feed him up with flowers and leaves!
sacrifice him for our needs!

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released December 10, 2021

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flakebelly Stornoway, UK

Indie, Acoustic & Psychedelic music from The Outer Hebrides. "Extensive and wildly eclectic sonic adventures" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music


found underneath a gooseberry bush, some time past. grown crooked-tree and raggydoll. now a purveyor of pomes and posey, liking nothing more than to be thumbing his Flaming Jangle Music all hours
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