Tenebrae-The Fire Beyond the Gate

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A double CD of Melodic Instrumental Electronic Music with a Darkly Gothic Twist for your ears to enjoy and your mind to ride along with. These last two months have been quite productive and here are the results. I really must get out more!!! Like all my music, there is a story behind the inspiration, which is a continuation of my Tenebrae series. So, what exactly is Tenebrae? I have explained some of the meaning in the notes to my other albums but for the sake of clarity, here are a few more. Tenebrae, as I have conceived it, is a city. Or so it appears. It is certainly more than that, however. It might be better to think of the city as a gate between Worlds in which the decisions made by the people who find themselves there, and to all intents and purposes interact and get on with life with no recollection of there having ever been anything else, are crucially important to their ultimate fate. This is especially true in regards to the afterlife, and what they believe it is, or is not. The idea shares a great deal in common with various movies, Lost, The Dark City, The Trueman Show, etc. The main character in my story, D.I Zachariah Winters, begins, with the help of two friends, a dog named Toby, and “Canny”, Ms Canterbury Black, to wake up to the true nature of the City and his own soul. Zach is an officer of the Law, which is ironic given that he was, in a previous existence, a servant of Chaos in which he wielded a black sword that delighted in bloodshed and was also unimaginably evil. The same sword, which he had come to depend upon in that life because of his albino weakness, ultimately murdered him and “drank” his soul. Perhaps I should reiterate here how I came up with this idea for Tenebrae. I took as my primary sources two books. The first, by C.S.Lewis, (the author of the Chronicles of Narnia), was the Great Divorce. The second, by Michael Moorcock, was the Elric Saga. A combination of the two seems highly unlikely. Bear with me. I wondered what happened to the soul of Elric after he was slain by the above mentioned black sword, Stormbringer. Now, Moorcock would argue that the soul was no more than energy to be passed on and used by the vampiric Stormbringer. We are not given much information on Stormbringer other than it was a sentient being, evil, and which became the Satan of our world after the destruction of the old Earth. (Both Moorcock and Tolkien set their fantasy world as a prequel to the world as it is now. Lewis took a different track, and set his Narnia world as a sideways or alternative reality.) And Lewis, on the other hand, believed in the existence of the soul after death, as evidenced in all his writings, but particularly, the Great Divorce. I am firmly in the Lewis camp. So, yes, I am biased in my opinion. So a hybridization of ideas was born. You can listen to the music for its own sake if you so wish. But I note my sources so that you may share something of my own journey. "This is pure fantasy", I hear someone say. True. But like the “Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”, it points to a greater reality. Every decision we make has consequences for good or ill. Life itself is a constant opportunity to choose what we believe or not. As the strange knight in the Indiana Jones movie, the Last Crusade, said, we must choose wisely before we raise the final cup.

Perhaps I should also mention, that Tenebrae carries the meaning of “darkness” and refers to the Catholic ritual of that name, celebrating the three days of darkness spent by Christ in the tomb following his death and before his resurrection. This is mirrored in the three days of darkness in the book of Exodus, and the three days of darkness to come in the book of Revelation. So we see, God is no stranger to the recycling of ideas and reality.
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