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Midsummer Nightsong on Wy'East

from Solitary Are the Winter Woods by Nuwisha

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On a chill, foggy, glorious night on Mount Hood (as it's known to the colonizing dominant culture), a friend and I sat drumming in a clearing until the wee hours of the morning. Millions of stars shone overhead, and the pacific chorus frogs in the nearby pond sang with our drumming, changing their tempo with our changing beats. This song is about that wonderful, magical, eerie night, and is dedicated to the splendor and majesty of Wy'East.

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We sit, my brother,
atop the sacred hill,
on derelict ruins,
of modernity.

I see the cougars prowl,
by the light
of a thousand, thousand stars.

Five,
the beat we pound on timeworn drums.
Five,
the voice of pond frogs echoes back.
Five,
the laughter we share beneath a blanket of fog.
Five,
the fawn prances in the thick breath of night.
Five!

Drum, my brother, drum, as if you've never drummed before,
Drum for the splendid silver gloom of midsummer,
Drum for the glory of Wy'East!
Drum for the glory of Wy'East!

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from Solitary Are the Winter Woods, released May 24, 2013
Ikarus Vikare on flute

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Nuwisha Cascadia, Oregon

Nuwisha are were-coyotes, the mischievous, playful tricksters who prank others to teach them wisdom.

This project is inspired by the lessons of Coyote, the splendor of the natural world, and by the relearing of ancestral lifeways and skills.

Nuwisha is Rowan WalkingWolf (aka Walks-With-the-Wind).

Nuwisha plays a whimsical mix of gray metal with atavistic, anarchist/primitivist lyrics. ... more

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