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COLUMNS OF HERAKLES available as... duration:
64'28" 1.
Minus One 9'26"
Captured
during spontaneous live session at Quadelectronic events, held at Quad
Studios, Friday Street, Leicester, England, Chris Conway: theremin, synths, flutes, whistles, kalimba, voice,
effects special
guest A third Escape Route... Pretty much a collection of oddments from gigs in 2008,
"Columns Of Herakles" was titled before any of it was recorded, and
is apt for what may be the final Escape Route release to feature Simon
Styring. But, who knows what the future will hold when one has ventured
towards "the lost realm of Atlantis" and created music like nothing
else on earth? "The Columns Of Herakles" or "The Pillars
of Hercules" (Latin, Columnae Herculis) was the phrase that was applied
in Antiquity to the rocks that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. According to Greek mythology adopted by the Etruscans and
Romans, when Hercules had to perform twelve labours, one of them was to fetch
the Cattle of Geryon of the far West and bring them to Eurystheus, and this
marked the westward extent of his travels. A lost passage of Pindar quoted by
Strabo was the earliest reference in this context: "the pillars which
Pindar calls the 'gates of Gades' when he asserts that they are the
farthermost limits reached by Heracles." According to Plato's account,
the lost realm of Atlantis was situated beyond the Pillars of Hercules, in
effect placing it in the realm of the Unknown. CD-R - released 2009. |
COLUMNS OF HERAKLES
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