The dance of Going and Returning
What we have is this six-note mantra which turns small circles right the way through the tune like the hub of a wheel. Varying sounds radiate out like spokes. It comes in a bit Yes and goes out a bit Floyd.
The whole thing is very gentle, - although there are tensions - unashamedly spacey and aims to span the stratosphere.
Lyrics are minimal and are only given time to touch upon concepts, but one gets the feeling of something profound beginning to open up. "All is one in the Universe". Greater than the sum of its parts, one hopes.
The tune wants you to relax but pay attention. As it pans out, always, always, always back to this rolling Vitruvian Man whose purpose is to rotate and hypnotise.
Oddly enough. you get the feeling that this nucleoplasm supports the nucleus and not the other way around [that's enough cell biology].
I don't think I could play it more than six times in a row; the sense of being drawn into a feedback loop from which there would be no escape and spoil everything makes me hesitate. If it were shorter, with the guitar faded out much earlier, it could serve as an introductory piece on on the album - or an 'aside' to something more structured and energetic. But as a 'song' in its own right, I'm not so sure, and it ain't implausable to me that this was the intention.
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