New Spriggan Mist song- "Reflections"

Music by Maxine Cilia (2008)
Maxine Cilia--Recorder , Tenor Recorder ,Fife Electric Guitar
Baz Cilia- Bass

Reflections has been knocking around for a few months now, originally under the working title of "mist clearing". It was whilst playing around with the keyboard for the "Visions of Mist " meditation CD that Maxine discovered the main tune of this song. She recorded it and left it in the "maybe bucket" I put a bass line to it and again it got left to one side not making the final cut of the visions of mist CD with us favouring the more subtle Cernunos and Hathor tracks. Maxine decided that we ought to replace the keyboard with recorders and she set about re recording with Tenor Recorder, recorder and for the first time a fife that can be heard towards the beginning of the track off in the distance. By now we had called this track "Reflections" although Maxine had in her mind The Oak King and the fact that it was autumn and it signified Oak King had laid to rest. Whilst researching the Oak king I found online on the Fairy Encyclopedia



"The Oak King exists in the pagan lore of western Europe as something more than a faery but less than a God. He is the king of the waxing year and the other half of the Holly King, the king of the waning year. From Yule to Midsummer the Oak King reigns, taking over the mantle of rulership from the Holly King.

In many pagan Yule rituals this struggle is acted out between two coven members who portray the two kings, who are really only reflections of each other. Though they fight and one pretends to die, it is merely the other half of himself resting until it is his turn to reign again."

To us this means the track had to remain as reflections. So as you listen to this track join us in wishing that the Oak King is having good rest and we will meet him again after Yule.