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Last night was the concert and Therese and I went. This is a rarity because I don't like going out on weeknights due to that tired feeling you get in the morning after being around smoke for several hours - not to mention the few beers and shots you put away when you are at a concert causing a blurry feeling when you wake up. The audience was a bizarre mix of over-read housewives, English majors, goth girls, and folk music types - which makes sense as the music the Baebes sing is based on medival poetry (French, Welsh, English, Latin, Italian, Spanish, and even Russian...ohh, I confess to the 'Fish Called Wanda' syndrome of loving the sound of Russian - especially coming from eight beautiful women). The poems aren't the typical fare you would expect from these women. These are poems about death, about sins of lust and pride, about good deeds being punished, about unrecoited love being harshly destroyed. They sing as if they were Eve telling the world that it shouldn't have been Jesus who died for the sins of humanity, but her, since she was the cause. They sing about Adam and what a wonderful day it was when he took the apple from Eve. And they sing about a young maiden seducing a friar to dance with religious trinkets, admonishing him that if he weren't a monk, she'd be offering very different trinkets.

The thing about music like this, a wonderful cross between Enya and the Chanting Monks, is I find it inspiring. I've already taken one of the songs they did, about a gardener to tends and feeds a worm he finds in his garden that turns out to be a serpent that then goes off to kill everything in his garden and finally kills the gardener, and twisted it to a slightly different tale. It should be done tonight and I'll put it up on Ariadne's Thread tomorrow.

I wanted their cd's after Therese's friend told me that they did a cover of Sumerisle, a song from The Wicker Man. I wish they did the song Brit Ekland sang, but the Maypole song is just as good. The liner notes that come with the cd's are amazing. They provide the lyrics to the songs and the translations - again I can see why English majors go ga-ga for the Baebes.

I think I may promote these cd's on the front page of Stygian Labyrinth. I'll have to see if I can get into an affiliate program first. If I can't, oh well, I think this group is so good, I'll promote them without compensation.