Today’s edition of Edges of Dreaming contemplates the Tree of Life in all its meaning: leaves, lives, leaving, falling, fall, autumn, and the circle of life.
The death of every living being is in the natural order of things; it follows life as surely as summer follows spring. Let us consider the symbol of the Tree of Life. The trunk and branches of the tree represent all the living world, and each leaf a life – appearing one spring, flourishing for a season, and then falling to nourish the roots for following generations.
The physical presence of the individual life has gone, but the tree remains. In fact, it is now even stronger because of that life – and the ending of that life. So it shall be for all of us, in time.
We’ll hear tracks by Altus, Druhá Smrt, Megatone, Robert Scott Thompson, Darren Harper, Andrew Lahiff, Chris Russell, Disturbed Earth, Samsa, Vir Unis, Resonant Drift, Michael Brückner, Cousin Silas, Jack Hertz, DeepWarmth, Elve, WolfProject and Johan Tronestam, and Syndromeda. Plus the waves. You’ll definitely hear the waves.
- “Falling” – Altus – Autumn Breeze (2005)
- “Tree Of Life” – Druhá Smrt – This Music Plants Trees (2015)
- “Tree of Life” – Megatone – Eden EP (2007)
- “Nights, Darkest to Fall” – Robert Scott Thompson – Alphabet of the Trees (2017)
- “Amongst the Trees” – Darren Harper – The Hundredth Mantra (2009)
- “A Fallen Tree” – Andrew Lahiff – (Unreleased, 2009)
- “Leaves on Trees” – Chris Russell & Disturbed Earth – The Approaching Armada (2010)
- “Leaving Trees” – Samsa – The Laurentian Divide (2003)
- “Like Wind in the Trees” – Vir Unis – Dreamers at the Edge of Decaying Light (2001)
- “Turning the Wheel of Time” – Resonant Drift – Full Circle (2012)
- “Path And Tree” – alternative version 2 (bonus track) – Michael Brückner – Ombra – Revisited (2014)
- “A Ring of Trees” – Cousin Silas – The Snow Imposed Silence (2010)
- “Ring of Trees” – Jack Hertz & Cousin Silas – The Quiet Forest (waag_rel030) (2013)
- “Leaves” – DeepWarmth – Nature 3 (2015)
- “Autumn leaves” – Elve – Infinite garden (2006)
- “Autumn Leaves” – WolfProject and Johan Tronestam (2013)
- “Circles Of Life” – Syndromeda – Circles Of Life (1997)