The late spring and early summer this year has presented some rather odd weather patterns which unfortunately might be getting more common due to climate change. Locally, we had a period of 3 weeks with not a single drop of rain, and not that far away wildfires were raging. Air quality and smoke were a serious problem in a lot of places, and in the places that got the worst of it the sky turned a bright orange color (I wasn't personally witness to it this time, but I woke up one day under that kind of smoke about 20 years ago and it was freaky). In the nick of time, though, thunderstorms came through, refilling wells, watering plants that desperately needed it, and generally saving the land from utter disaster, and since I was already planning on attending a ritual in honor of Thor the direction my music should take seemed very clear.
Returning to my usual roots in dance music, this song is written to music appropriate for another dance form still done in Scandanavian folk and ballroom dancing to this day, the schottische or reinlender, which originally seems to have come from Bohemia. The basic dance pattern, besides a 4/4 common-time beat, is, at least as I learned it, "step-step-step-hop step-step-step-hop step-hop-step-hop step-hop-step-hop", and while I've taken this at a pretty leisurely pace it's intended to match nicely with that pattern of movement. The minor key was a bit unusual for the style, but simple enough if guitarists want to capo up 1 fret.
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deb 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Wonderfull
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