A classical composition played with unusual intruments, very emotional and a demo for the incoming album.
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Story behind the song
A classical-flavored composition, played with unusual intruments. Very emotional and a demo for the incoming album.
The track is inspired by the story of Tristan and Isolde ("Tristano e Isotta", in Italian), or "Tristan und Isolde" in German. Very emotional and often sad, yet not desperate. Electronic instruments melts with a soprano saxophone and with classical instruments (such as the harp) to underline the song story.
The story of Tristan and Isolde in Wagner:
TRISTAN, a Breton Knight, Nephew of King Mark (Tenor)
KING MARK of Cornvall (Bass)
ISOLDE, Princess of Ireland (Soprano)
KURVENAL, Tristan’s devoted servant (Baritone)
MELOT, one of King Mark’s Courtiers (Tenor)
BRANGANE, Isolde’s friend and Attendant (Soprano)
A Shepherd (Tenor)
A Steersman (Baritone)
A Sailor Lad (Tenor)
Chorus of Sailors (Tenors and Basses)
Chorus of Knights, Esquires, and Men-at-Arms (Tenor and Basses)
FIRST ACT
Before the opening of the stage-action certain events have occurred which it is necessary that the listener should understand. Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, had slain Isolde’s lover, Morold, an Irish chief who had come over to demand tribute. The tribute was paid, but in what form? In the form of Morold’s head! Tristan himself was so grievously wounded in the encounter that he pleaded to be placed in a boat with all his weapons, and cast adrift on the sea to die.
As fate would have it, he was thrown up by the tide on the Irish coast; on that very spot held by his late enemy. Isolde found him, an unknown wanderer, and nursed him back to convalescence by her vaunted "leechcraft." To conceal his dentity, he metamorphosed his name into Tantris; but Isolde recognised him by a notch in his sword corresponding exactly with a splinter found in her dead lover’s head. Isolde’s first impulse was to kill the man thus placed in her power. But as she lifted the sword, her aversion changed to regard and, with a noble chivalry, she allowed Tristan to depart unharmed. Later on, Tristan was sent by his uncle as ambassador to make peace with Ireland, and to demand the hand of Isolde for Mark to seal the bond. Isolde felt that she had been deceived and betrayed. Tristan, her own beloved, come to woo her for another! -- at this her woman’s heart rebelled. But the King’s offer was, by her relatives, considered too good to be rejected. Isolde gave her unwilling consent, and Tristan was now bringing over to wed his uncle her whom he himself held dear. It is with the sea-voyage that the stage-action begins.
The curtains ascends to show a part of the deck of Tristan’s ship on its way to Cornwall. Isolde reclines on a couch in her cabin. Rich tapestries enclose the scene. Brangäne, Isolde’s attendant, is with her, to whom Isolde recounts something of her past, vowing that she will never become the wife of king Mark. An unseen sailor trolls out on the mast-head, singing of his Irish maid. The song seems to Isolde like a covert taunt aimed at herself. Fierce, conflicting thoughts take possession of her when she learns that the voyage is nearly ended; and she bursts out into an excited appeal to the elements to destroys the ship and all in it. Brangäne, to give her mistress air, draws back the curtains. The whole length of the vessel in thus revealed; and Tristan, his arms folded on his breast, his knights and his squire Kurvenal beside him, is observed standing at the helm, looking sadly across the sea. At sight of him Isolde utters a deep malediction; and after roundly abusing him to the bewildered Brangäne, bids the maid command him to her side.
Tristan declines the summons on the pretext that he cannot leave the helm. On her insisting, Kurvenal offers to settle the matter, and sends Brangäne back to her mistress with a rough but decided answer, singing derisively after her a song about Morold and his fate. Isolde is more indignant than ever; for Tristan has already been guilty of apparent coldness and discourtesy i
Lyrics
The track is inspired by the story of Tristan and Isolde ("Tristano e Isotta", in Italian), or "Tristan und Isolde" in German. Yes, we got the inspiration from the Richard Wagner's opera.
While the song is inspired by Wagner, the art her is the one of the album ("Time Traveller") where the song can be found.
We have (unfortunately) nothing to do with this opera or the recent movie production with the same title, nor with it's soundtrack, and every copyright about the operas above, the pictures or the movie are property of their respective owners.
