faustian echoes

• agalloch'un bu yaz çıkardığı ep. tek şarkılık ancak şarkı 21 küsür dakika. black metal tarzında olmuş diyebiliriz.
• sanırım agalloch'un yaptığı en black metal iş. baya baya pure black metal triplerinde karanlık olaylara girmişler yer yer.
• genel olarak marrow of the spirit benzeri oldskool kayıt tribi var, hatta lo-fi bile denebilir. sanki girip de öyle çalmışlar gibi duruyor. bana biraz the white ep'nin antitezi gibi geldi, bu da onun tamamen kapkara kardeşi olabilirmiş. "ay agalloch dinleyim de tatlı bi hüzün kaplasın" şarkısı olmaması hoşuma gitti valla ne bilim, normalde gittikleri yoldan değil de başka bi yönden kasvetli/karanlık falan. değişik.
• adından da anlaşılacağı üzere johann wolfgang von goethe'nin faust adlı eserinden ilham almış, sözleride oyunun ingilizce çevirisi. albümde yeralan film alıntıları ise 1994 tarihli jan svankmajer'in faust'una aitmiş.
  26 temmuz 2012 tarihinde dämmerung arts etiketiyle satışa sunulmuş.
  agalloch albümünün kapağı ise salvador dali'nin faust lisant adlı eseri.
  
  albümün şarkı listesi şöyle:
  
  1. "faustian echoes" 21:34
  
  şarkının sözleri ise şöyle:
  
  [faust:] "ı, johannes faust, do call upon thee, mephistopheles!"
  
  [faust:]
  o growing moon, didst thou but shine
  a last time on this pain of mine
  behind this desk how oft have ı
  at midnight seen thee rising high
  o'er book and paper ı bend
  thou didst appear, o mournful friend
  
  [mephistopheles:]
  ı am the spirit that ever denies!
  and justly so: for all that is born
  deserves to be destroyed in scorn
  therefore 'twere best if nothing were created
  destruction, sin, wickedness - plainly stated
  all of which you as evil have classified
  that is my element - there ı abide
  
  [manager: ]
  scatter the stars with a lavish hand
  water, fire, tavern wall
  birds and beasts, all within command
  thus in our narrow booth today
  creation's ample scope display
  wander swiftly, observing well
  from the heavens, to the world, to hell!
  
  the world of spirits is not barred to thee!
  
  [mephistopheles:] "now then, faustus. what wouldst thou have mephisto do?"
  [faust:]
  "ı charge thee, mephisto, wait upon me while ı live... to do whatever faustus shall command. be it to make the moon drop from outer sphere, or the ocean to overwhelm the world. go bear these tidings to great lucifer: say he surrenders up his soul. so that he shall spare him four and twenty years, letting him live in all voluptiousness, having thee ever to attend on me. to give me whatsoever ı shall ask."
  
  [mephistopheles:] "ı will."
  
  [faust:]
  sublime spirit, thou hast given me all
  all for which ı besought thee, not in vain
  didst thou reveal thy countenance in the fire
  thou hast given me nature for a kingdom
  with the power to enjoy and feel
  only a visit of chilling bewilderment
  thou [then me?] bringest all the living creatures
  and taught me to know my brothers in the air
  ın the deep waters and in the silent coverts
  when through the forest the storm rages
  uprooting the giant pines which in their fall
  crushing, drag down neighboring boughs and trunks
  whose [growingly?] hollow thunder shake the hills
  then thou dost lead me to a sheltering cave
  and revealest me to myself and layest bare
  the deep mysterious miracle of my nature
  and when the pure moon rises into sight
  soothingly above me, then about me hover
  creeping from rocky walls and dewy thickets
  silver shadows, phantoms of a bygone world
  which allay the austere joy of meditation
  
  now fully do ı realize that man
  can never possess perfection
  with this ecstasy which brings me near and nearer
  to the gods
  
  [margarete: ]
  my mother the harlot put me to death
  my father the scoundrel ate my flesh
  my dear little sister laid all my bones
  ın a dark shaded place under the stones
  then ı changed into a wood-bird
  fluttering away
  fly away
  
  [mephistopheles:]
  mankind, that foolish cosmos
  always acts as incomplete
  he thought himself to be
  ı am part of that part which was the absolute
  a part of that darkness which gave birth to light
  the arrogant light which would dispute
  ancient rank of mother night
  therefore ı hope it won't be long before
  with matter it shall perish evermore!
  
  [manager: ]
  scatter the stars with a lavish hand
  water, fire, tavern wall
  birds and beasts, all within command
  thus in our narrow booth today
  creation's ample scope display
  wander swiftly, observing well
  from the heavens to the world
  
  the world of spirits is not barred to thee!
  
  [faust:] "so, still ı seek the force, the reason governing life's flow, and not just its external show."
  [mephistopheles:] "the governing force? the reason? some things cannot be known; they are beyond your reach even when shown."
  [faust:] "why should that be so?"
  [mephistopheles:] "they lie outside the boundaries that words can address; and man can only grasp those thoughts which language can express."
  [faust:] "what? do you mean that words are greater yet than man?"
  [mephistopheles:] "ındeed they are."
  [faust:] "then what of longing? affection, pain or grief? ı can't describe these, yet ı know they are in my breast. what are they?""
  [mephistopheles:] "without substance, as mist is."
  [faust:] "ın that case man is only air as well!"
• agalloch'un en sağlam şarkılarından. marrow of the spirit'ten the serpent and the sphere'e geçişte tarz olarak tam bir köprü.
• agalloch'un ilk beşine rahatlıkla girebilecek bir şarkıdır demek isterdim ancak demeyeceğim zira kesin bir tanesine haksızlık etmiş olacağım. öyle bir şarkıdır ki bu, tanrıların yürüdüğü bir yolda ilerliyorsunuz, kompozitörler de size eşlik ediyor lakin hepsi arkanızdan geliyor.