Music To Drink Tea To - 007 - Citrus+
The seventh instalment of our Music To Drink Tea To series comes by way of Citrus+ - it's a mysterious mix from a mysterious person, tea-drinker, and KUURACORP-enjoyer.
As described by Citrus+ (also known as C+) themselves, this mix is "a pop-sonic melange made with love and gentle mourning in 2020" and we couldn't agree more. Press play on just under 2 hours of softly enveloping tracks that evoke equal parts tender nostalgia and directionless longing.
Additional notes from C+ below:
"The border between inside and outside, I and Thou, is the first and final and most mysterious gate of Erishkigal's house."
"Enki's mourners moan with Erishkigal. When she says "Woe! Oh my inside!" they echo her with "Woe! You who sigh our queen. Oh, your inside!" When she says "Woe! Oh my outside!" they echo her with "Woe! You who sigh our queen. Oh your outside!" Their echoing makes a litany, transforms the pain into poetry and prayer. It makes out of life's dark misery a song of the goddess. It establishes art as a reverent and creative and sympathetic response to the passions and pains of life."
— Descent to the Goddess, Syvia Brinton Perera, 1981, pp. 70-71.
