We released “Full Sturgeon Moon” on the 20th of March. Let me tell you something about the making of this track.
This song was made in collaboration with Alex Isembard, who voiced the spirits of the woods and lost pagan traditions. I was very delighted to receive his tracks and hear how well he’s put a voice to those parts of the song!
Full Sturgeon Moon was inspired by a video of an old man warning about the effects of the full sturgeon moon on people. How they become wilder and if you didn’t believe him, he said you ought to ask a cop what it’s like on full moon nights. His name is FergusArts, he’s got a deep voice which reminded me of the man speaking in “Lullaby” by Loreena Mckennit. Inspired by that track and the video of this Pagan man, I started working on the song.
The melody came easy to me, but the lyrics took several months to perfect. The sturgeon moon is the full moon of August and by the time this song got released it was March! I wanted the text to be just right; about the fae realm and those mysteries, but from as close a perspective I could get. It became “My full sturgeon moon” instead of “sturgeon moon” and “Light of my night” instead of “light in the night”. These sorts of changes did make quite a difference in how the song is experienced.
With Tom’s help, the eery sound of his ebow was added. This is also the first song Tom is mixing in a whole different way. It marks the start of a new chapter, as it is also the first song I intend to release under the pseudo of Bart the Bard, rather than Bart Zeal. For now it’s still under my Bart Zeal name, but that’ll change soon once I get the administrative side done.
But enough talk, give it a listen!
LYRICS
Someone is out there
All on her own
In a woody grove
With starlit stones
There in the shelter
tall shadows loom
Naked in the light
Of the Sturgeon moon!
There walks the elder
Bog oak in hand
Known by the backwoods
Like he knows this land
Now charging with a power
The power of runes
Absorbing the light
Of the Sturgeon Moon!
My Full Sturgeon Moon
Light of my night
Carry my whispers
My Full Sturgeon Moon
You’re the light in my night skies
Carry my whispers
“These are dark times…”
These are dark times…
The old ways are disappearing.
Ever retreating… Deep into the ancient woods.
That shroud of mystery and wonder.
Faerie and elder
Surrounded by stones
The veil thins out
And calls her home
Reaching out for her
Was his final mistake
Locked in the fae realm, where there´s
no escape!
My Full Sturgeon Moon
Light of my night
Carry my whispers
My Full Sturgeon Moon
You’re the light in my night skies
Carry my whispers
“These are dark times…”
These are dark times…
The old ways are disappearing.
Bathing… In the light
of the full sturgeon moon.
Clinking trinkets
Baubles and bones
Trammels in topsoil
Where seeds are sown
Hour of the owl,
To croak of crow,
And feathery footfalls,
Soft on snow
Though tempests wrack the skies
I stand in defiance of the storm
I shall move like a shadow through this place
‘neath the light of the full Sturgeon moon
Bart the Bard 