Daybreak from LUX by In the Company of Serpents

This centers around themes of life, birth and rebirth, & general cycles of renewal. It is the first of two instrumental pieces on the album featuring my friend, Paul Primus, of the Colorado Symphony, performing the Viola D'Amore, a type of viola which uses drone strings beneath the fingerboard to vibrate in sympathy with the other strings. It is tuned to the somber tuning of DADFAD with A=432hz. That tuning is known to guitarists as the "Skip James tuning," as that bluesman was famous for utilizing it to wonderful, eerie effect in his songs like "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" and "Crow Jane," and it’s the tuning which four of the album's songs employ. However, it bears mentioning that it is said in certain esoteric circles that A=432hz is the vibration at which all of creation resonates, and thus is sometimes called "the God frequency." This whole album was recorded with our tuners calibrated to A=432hz, and this is meant to consciously tie in to the theme of Prima Materia, or a fundamental root-essence, that runs throughout the whole record.

Tracklist

3.	Daybreak	1:16

Credits

from LUX, released May 15, 2020
Featuring Paul Primus as Violist D'amore

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