The Cleft Serpent (Instrumental & Alternate Mixes), by Black Tape For A Blue Girl

The Cleft Serpent (Instrumental & Alternate Mixes)

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1.	The Cleft Serpent (Instrumental Mix) 04:31	buy track
2.	The Trickster (Instrumental Mix) 03:12	buy track
3.	Hidden Villa, Florence 1453 (Instrumental Mix) 04:14	buy track
4.	Ares & Hermes (Instrumental Mix) 05:24	buy track
5.	To Touch The Milky Way (2021 Version Instrumental Mix) 04:19	buy track
6.	So Tired Of Our History (Instrumental Mix) 06:12	buy track
7.	The Matchmaker (Instrumental Mix) 03:26	buy track
8.	I'm The One Who Loses (Instrumental Mix) 02:24	buy track
9.	Alabaster, Stortorget 1520 07:14	buy track
10.	The Ghost Of Monte Cassino Abbey 09:11	buy track
11.	The Cleft Serpent (Earliest Instrumental Demo) 04:13	buy track
12.	Hidden Villa, Florence 1453 (Earliest Instrumental Demo) 03:59	buy track
13.	I'm The One Who Loses (Earliest Instrumental Demo) 03:31	buy track
14.	To Touch The Milky Way (2021 Version Alternate Vocal Mix) 03:27	buy track
15.	The Matchmaker (Alternate Vocal Mix) 03:02	buy track
16.	The Cleft Serpent (Alternate Vocal Mix) 04:03	buy track

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A 16-track, 72-minute companion to THE CLEFT SERPENT. Features instrumental versions of the 8-track album remixed & reworked to highlight Henrik Meierkord's cello and viola, exclusive instrumentals, three demos, and three alternate mixes with vocalist Jon DeRosa.

On this bonus collection of rich and complex chamber-music neo-classical compositions, listeners could be forgiven for thinking this is the work unto itself. Here we have an artist and a band at the peak of their powers reaching ambitiously into the starry night, seeking out the beauty and mystery of life, and arriving at the very heart of the human experience itself.

Freed of the narrative structure provided by THE CLEFT SERPENT's lyrics and vocal performances, this (mostly) Instrumental Serpent allows the audience to better explore the rich, layered, and heartfelt compositions of the original work. The philosophical, metaphysical and psychological discourses of the album remain as echoes — shadow-like, forming a spectral force of soul-searching emotion and wonderment, held aloft by Meierkord's achingly beautiful string performances forming a complex and layered narrative of their own.

There is a generous amount of material presented here, reflecting the scale and ambition of THE CLEFT SERPENT, drawing listeners deeper into the gothic, ambient and classical music inspirations across the decades-spanning legacy of Black Tape for a Blue Girl.

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released October 1, 2021

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Projekt is America's premier independent label specializing in passionately intense introspective music in the ambient, electronic, ethereal & darkwave genres. 40-year-old Projekt continues to nurture the careers of its select roster of artists. ... more

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