Calypso by ThankYouPain

You definitely know all those myths and classical works but what you remember is usually rough approximations, simplifications, plot sketches. You must remember, if only slightly, what was up with Romeo and Juliet. Macbeth. Hamlet. Jesus Christ. Noah. Cain and Abel. Pygmalion. Orpheus and Eurydice. Osiris and Isis. That myth about Calypso must have been in one of your kids books, definitely. Anyway, how about I recite it briefly.

So, Calypso was banished to her gods-forsaken island where she stayed for a really, really long time all alone before Odysseus ended up there by some misfortune - and misfortunes he was really fond of getting into. And when he finally did end up there she kept him there with her for seven years. But Odysseus was homesick, he was all about getting back to Ithaca to his wife and all that royal stuff of his. So eventually Calypso let him go and stayed behind, alone, for all the time to come. Until she finally died. Though she probably didn't die in that kids book. Now where's the fun in that.

But all this is irrelevant. Because now we're going to throw Odysseus away from this story. And all names. And the island. And Greece and Ithaca. And time frames. Let's exclude even gender pronouns.

And let's take Calypso's story right where she let Odysseus go and stayed on her damn island, all alone, forever.

This is an abstract 21-minute long lovesong. It starts with this bittersweet sadness of having just let go, and ends where Calypso herself ends. The last track had a working title "Requiem" some years ago, but it's not a requiem, it never was. Because after descending step by step into utter darkness of despair, when Calypso finally dies, the sea still splashes and the sun still shines. And the world around is still alive, and it goes on, and Calypso's story doesn't end there, it becomes a myth.

And myths should live on.

Hi there, we make music (surprise surprise). It's mostly acoustic, mostly piano based, and thoroughly gloomy. Sometimes it's just me, sometimes a duo, sometimes a trio. You get the idea.

K thx

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