On Daimon
“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling.
The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but it cannot abide innocence. It can make the body ill. It is out of step with time, finding all sorts of faults, gaps, and knots in the flow of life – and it prefers them. It has affinities with myth, since it is itself a mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns.”
James Hillman
All songs presented in this album were recorded at the Sala del Torchio of Balerna (Southern Switzerland) in May 2022, with my loyal Dusty Strings FH36 Celtic Harp in cherry wood.
All the music and arrangements were originally written by Alessandro Mazzoni except for the traditional Irish balld “The Foggy Dew” and the classical “G.F. Händel’s Passacaglia in G minor”.
“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling.
The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but it cannot abide innocence. It can make the body ill. It is out of step with time, finding all sorts of faults, gaps, and knots in the flow of life – and it prefers them. It has affinities with myth, since it is itself a mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns.”
James Hillman
All songs presented in this album were recorded at the Sala del Torchio of Balerna (Southern Switzerland) in May 2022, with my loyal Dusty Strings FH36 Celtic Harp in cherry wood.
All the music and arrangements were originally written by Alessandro Mazzoni except for the traditional Irish balld “The Foggy Dew” and the classical “G.F. Händel’s Passacaglia in G minor”.
