Before the release of his new album “Spiritus Mundi” on April 9th 2021 Nad Sylvan is happy to be announcing yet another single and accompanying video, this time for “The Hawk”. The song’s lyrics are based on a poem by Nobel Prize winning author W. B. Yeats:
The Hawk
‘Call down the hawk from the air;
Let him be hooded or caged
Till the yellow eye has grown mild,
For larder and spit are bare,
The old cook enraged,
The scullion gone wild.’
‘I will not be clapped in a hood,
Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist,
Now I have learnt to be proud
Hovering over the wood
In the broken mist
Or tumbling cloud.’
‘What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
Last evening? that I, who had sat
Dumbfounded before a knave,
Should give to my friend
A pretense of wit.’
The music is based on a primitive guitar/vocal demo by Andrew Laitres, which Nad then developed into the actual song.
Watch the video below.
“Spiritus Mundi” is available as Special Edition CD Digipak (incl. 2 bonus tracks), 180g Gatefold LP Vinyl Edition (incl. the entire album on CD) and as Digital Download. You can pre-order the album here.
After concluding the Vampirate’s trilogy, Nad now changes course on his upcoming fourth album by converting poems of WB Yeats into music. The new album is due for release on April 9th 2021.
The stunning new cover artwork by Robin Damore can be seen above.
“Spiritus Mundi” tracklisting:
- The Second Coming
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Cap and Bells
- The Realists
- The Stolen Child
- To An Isle In The Water
- The Hawk
- The Witch and The Mermaid
- The Fisherman
- You’ve Got To Find A Way
- To A Child Dancing In The Wind
