The Shakers also wrote beautiful music and songs with which they glorified their joy in living. It is unfortunate that the Shakers are known to the world at large mainly for their ability to build and design beautiful furniture. This is based on an old Shaker hymn which I suggested as a suitable addition to the album, not only because of the beautiful melody, but the lyrical content seems as relevant today as it did 250 years ago when the hymn was written. As with all dreams we reach for the ideal, and ‘Caribbean Blue’ represents such a dream.
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Like Afer Ventus, the wind from Africa, or Eurus, the East wind, Boreas from the North or the gentle Zephyrus, the imagination is free and can choose and create its own journey. It is a simple fact, often forgotten, that people may create something good merely by thinking it so.
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It is much easier to imagine a beautiful place on a rainy day than to imagine a dreary one. Everyone had appreciated the spectacular beauty of Saturn, but where would the planet be without those precious, mis-shapen, miniature moons? The world had not known but all the time they were there, working tirelessly. An unspoken glory to the rings of Saturn. I marvelled at their diligence, a new mystery, poignant and beautiful. Voyager had performed like a dream and sent their pictures to Earth.
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Protectors both, 1980SS27 – either side of the F rings. Working ceaselessly, it seemed, to keep the particles of the ring together, much as a shepherd would guide his flock. Shepherd Moons orbiting a ring of Saturn. I have written about them by searching for the genesis of the songs in diaries and notebooks I have kept and so the background has, as a result, the flavour of a personal journal. This, of course, will go part of the way to explain them, for it is also my hope that everyone who listens to them may hold their own interpretation. Here, with Shepherd Moons, I have, in response, provided some background to the songs in the hope that the understanding of the songs may have some uniformity. Another part of me wanted to acknowledge the genuine interest people were showing and so I replied, haphazardly it seemed, to those who would have asked. One part of me felt that the lyrics should speak for themselves and that to ‘explain’ them would be like naming the colours of a painting while forgetting to look at the picture.
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After Watermark was released – I was inundated with requests to talk about the lyrics.