​Unofficial rejected video for the song "Shaman of the snow".
The first incarnation of this song was written in the early 1980's, but was filed away for a couple of decades and rewritten in the early 2000's. The recorded version is version #4. something like that.
The origins of this were in part inspired by the Jethro Tull Christmas EP with "Solstice Bells" as well as other wonderful Christmas singles of the 1970's. A conversation with fellow sojourner Martin Newell about the origins of Christmas and the throwaway line "The Christians stole our festival" made it into the original lyric.
The song was an attempt to bring to the table that the pagan thanksgiving festival had been hijacked by Christians and subsequently hijacked by consumerism, commerce and captitalist to intoxicate us with a short burst of debauchery and an aftermath of debt.
I don't remember if we got around to doing anything with it in the 1980's, I suspect we struggled to hammer it into our post punk world and abandoned the thing.
It resurfaced as an idea as Pete and I were working on the Ermin Grud album in the early 1990's and then again around 2011, I rewrote the lyrics and another attempt to bring it to the table was abandoned.
The lyrics suffered another brutal edit as we finally got around to recording the definitive version of the song in 2018 as our musical misadventures morphed into what was to become Two Headed Emperor.
Pete handled the lead vocals on this song with Georgia making her first appearance on the chorus adding an ethereal quality to the track. Pete's softer, more melodic, pastoral voice suited the track better than my rather unhinged, gritty ramblings.
BL, 22/12/2024
The first incarnation of this song was written in the early 1980's, but was filed away for a couple of decades and rewritten in the early 2000's. The recorded version is version #4. something like that.
The origins of this were in part inspired by the Jethro Tull Christmas EP with "Solstice Bells" as well as other wonderful Christmas singles of the 1970's. A conversation with fellow sojourner Martin Newell about the origins of Christmas and the throwaway line "The Christians stole our festival" made it into the original lyric.
The song was an attempt to bring to the table that the pagan thanksgiving festival had been hijacked by Christians and subsequently hijacked by consumerism, commerce and captitalist to intoxicate us with a short burst of debauchery and an aftermath of debt.
I don't remember if we got around to doing anything with it in the 1980's, I suspect we struggled to hammer it into our post punk world and abandoned the thing.
It resurfaced as an idea as Pete and I were working on the Ermin Grud album in the early 1990's and then again around 2011, I rewrote the lyrics and another attempt to bring it to the table was abandoned.
The lyrics suffered another brutal edit as we finally got around to recording the definitive version of the song in 2018 as our musical misadventures morphed into what was to become Two Headed Emperor.
Pete handled the lead vocals on this song with Georgia making her first appearance on the chorus adding an ethereal quality to the track. Pete's softer, more melodic, pastoral voice suited the track better than my rather unhinged, gritty ramblings.
BL, 22/12/2024
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