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Raise the Cairn

by Cairn

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Deep siren Lash me to the mast Sing of your abyss profound Of glories in your past Deep siren Beneath ice, you beckon me Promise with your solstice song The harvest of the sea One passage Beyond all ports of call Will carry me beneath the waves And to your hollow hall As frost fades And Sirius sets To thee, I come To thee No further May mortal engines pass I, from the bow, alone descend Into your grace at last Where, in coral chambers deep We are becoming one and wise Where your arms are not so strange And where you will embrace me
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Far Passage 01:03
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We rise with Spring, and rose-fingered Dawn To number the days our brethren have been gone Into the swelling sea Unto the sunken earth Heed the waves As they come to break From winter’s rage the seasons change And still we heed the sun When red we find its waking eye Shall our vigil be undone Mark the tide Kneel before its wake Heed the waves As they come to break Mourn the tide For those it came to take This keening wind has stopped our song The dead tide brought us low Upon the hill a cairn we’ll raise So that our sons will know So--by the grace of Dawn Lay me upon this shore As the season turns to fall
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Crush Depth 10:09
Sheathed in iron sleeve Sheltered from the salt and sea Bent to fateful oars Broken at the spine Sundered by the singing shrine Shelter is no more Strong wind ‘neath the waves Monolith upon the plain Anno Rex Æquor Here— On this darkest horizon Below the mortal sun The water’s heart beats Out— Mine, the cold and ancient way Where sunlight ne’er is shed Where terrene gods are held at bay, Where reign the driftwood dead. Bend to fateful oars Shelter is no more Anno Rex Æquor

about

Cairn is the solo project of The Living Fields guitarist Samu Rahn. 'Raise the Cairn' is a five-track concept album inspired by the sagas, natural apotheosis, and one singularly long-limbed deep sea dweller.

The album has been printed in a short run of hand-numbered CDs, which are available for $5 + shipping. Contact for details.

Learn more about Cairn at:
reverbnation.com/cairn
raisethecairn.com
facebook.com/raisethecairn

credits

released June 21, 2011

Samu Rahn - Instruments, programming & vocals

Mike Gleason - Session vocals

Music & lyrics composed between winter 2007 and summer 2009.

Produced, mixed & mastered between May 2009 and January 2010 at Holographic Recording Studio by Dan Gleason. Additional engineering by Cairn & Mike Gleason.

Album layout and design by Harvester Creative.

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Cairn Chicago, Illinois

Cairn began as the solo project of The Living Fields guitarist Samu Rahn and released its debut EP ‘Raise the Cairn’ in 2011. Its successor, ‘As for Dragons’, follows in 2013 with a full recording lineup of veteran musicians from Austaras, Vukari, and Vit. Combining elements of European folk, progressive music, and doom, Cairn is elegiac metal neither restrained nor defined by a single genre. ... more

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