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Posted on Saturday, June 18, 2011 3:17 AM
For some strange reason....
...lately, I have had the overwhelming urge to draw ravens.....it probably means something, and with my luck, I'd sooner not know!!
But honestly, I've been thinking of concepts for my next recording....I tried to think of what ties each song to it's brethren, lyrically or otherwise on this next session, and there really aren't any fictional stories, it's all thoughts and memories set to music.
Thought and Memory. There, a title.
"What's that got to do with Ravens?", well, the Norse Deity Odin, in the stories and sagas, particularly
Grimnismál, was described as having two ravens, who flew all over the human realm of Midgard, and reported back to the shoulders and ears of the Allfather.
These birds were named HUGIN (meaning thought) and MUNIN (meaning mind).
Here, read wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huginn_and_Muninn
Thus, in my feeble thinky place was spawned a concept that appealed to me, in that most people won't see the link without further investigating, or reading this blog...which is probably boring enough to render info here well hidden!
I wanted to draw my own cover, so I started to practice pencil drawing Ravens. Here are a few of my early attempts! Click on the pics to see bigger versions and detail;
 None of these are like what I want to use, but I'm getting the hand of drawing them, so by the time I have the tracks done, I should have some art. Of course by then I might have completely changed my mind and got someone else to do them!
Let me know what you think of the concept...good?...lame?....too esoteric?.....to VIKING for ya? Not flowery enough?
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