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once upon a time​-​album in progress

by Wolfgang Schweizer

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the glacier 16:00
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the return of the herds 06:08
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dalima magobinda 03:44
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the potion 02:33
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visions of the past 02:52
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the dream 04:12
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After seeing the paintings of the Chilean painter, he has a dream. He can hear a voice singing a song, and he knows it is the song the girl sang in the past at the glacier, when he fell in love with her. Suddenly an idea is forming in his mind. He knows he has to build a flute like the one he had in the past, and he hasto play exactly the same song the girl once sang, then he will be transfered back to the past.
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voices of the night - the dancer 11:52
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the gate 28:17
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then the woman lifts her veil and starts talking to him. She has no face. She says "dont be afraid. You already know part of the story. I am the ghost of the witch who has sent you through the gate. She could not come to you herself in her body. Everybody who goes through the gate with his body will die, will be transformed and then born in another body. After I sent you through the gate, the girl became sick from sorrow. People thought you were sick from a bad disease, and they saw it was wrong what we had done to you. So I went to the Shaman and asked him to send my spirit through the gate. He decided to do it, and so I came to you. This place where we stand now is part of the gate. But the Shaman will only be able to keep the gate open for a very short time. If I dont get back to the place of its origin I will die on both sides of the gate- here my spirit, there my body. If you decide to go back with me, your spirit will be able to enter your body in the past again, and you will wake up and eveeybody will think you recovered from the sickness. You will live with the girl and her people until both of you die." "But how can I know you are telling the truth" he asked the witch. "you cannot. But do you remember the exhibition of the young painter once, when you slowly started remembering everything? The painter was actually me, and the exhibition was just like the underground bar- it only existed by the power of the gate. It was nothing than an illusion." "we have to get you back in order to re adjust the things we started to mess up. There are already signs of danger appearing for our world. Things are starting to break apart". "I told everybody I brought you to the healer of a neighbor tribe for a cure. If you decide to go back to our world, it will look like you recovered. If you decide to stay here, it will look like you died. Dont worry about the time. The time spent n this world won't count towards time in our world. I cannot take you with me at once. This would cause even more damage to the order of things than the stuff I already did before. You need to make a decision completely by your own, that is the only possible way. For this purpose, you still need to build the right flute. If you play the right melody one day, the Shaman and I will hear it, and we will open the gate, so you can come back."

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story about a man 40 000 years ago who went out to look for ochre pigments at the melting front of the glacier.
He was one of the last Neanderthals in the area and lived with his family nearby.
When he stood in front of the glacier, he heard a strange voice singing an enchanting song.
He walked towards the direction from where the voice came.
A dark skinned girl sat on a rock in the sun, singing and doing her hair. She was one of the immigrants who had arrived a while ago, but he had never seen one of them before.
When he tried to turn around and go back to the river to collect the ochre stones, the girl looked in his direction and saw him.
He ran away, but the next day he came back, and she was there again. Soon they made contact, they fell in love, and he came with her to her people.
Later she got sick, but befroe she died, they promised each other, if it is true what they say about being reborn in a different body,
they will search for eachother whenever they are reborn.
Such he is searching for her periodically in different ages of time since 40 000 years, and whenever he meets a girl, he asks himself if she might be
her.
That is what he thinks to know about the story, while he is in the future worlds.

But in real, the people of the tribe of the girl had ontacted the witch, and they asked her how to get rid of him the best way. This is what the 3rd track "the potion" is about Description on the page of the song.

"Dalima magobinda", the second track, is the song of the girl telling him in her words by singing that they are both cursed. But she cannot tell him in real words, just by singing the phrase over and over again, and he thinks it is something like a love song or such.

The third song is about the potion the witch gave to him.

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released July 12, 2019

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Wolfgang Schweizer Laucherthal, Germany

I am an abstract acrylic painter and metalsmith. In 2009 I started composing with Ableton Live software.

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