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A Tailcoated Gentleman

from Wooczyk Meeklies by Rainer Straschill

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Once again, the MusicWeeklies #MWProduction challenge: one person composed (for one week), the next one produces (also for a week).

As the track was supposed to have a "Fantasy" theme, here's the back story of the eponymous gentleman:

Our protagonist is a gentleman (the Golden Twenties' version of the sharp dressed man), working as a musician in Paris.
Unbeknownst to his fans and even most of his friends, his alternate identity is that of a pagan priest, with close relationship to forest deities and fairies.

One day, fairies inform him of vampire acitivites in the vast forest lands of his native Russia. As there are several high-ranking vampire lords involved, the gentleman finds only one option: performing the difficult and dangerous Sacre du Printemps (rite of spring), he is able to make one of his most powerful opponents, the Oiseau du Feu (Firebird) his familiar.

Once the rite has been completed, the firebird does not mess around and goes on a rampage, burning increasing hordes of vampires to cinders. And then, as if it nothing has happened, returns to his master.

Since that day, "avoir vu l'oiseau du feu" became a phrase for "having had one too many" in Paris' artist circles, as some people reported having seen a gigantic bird-like sillhouette with flaming aura sitting on a roof while quietly singing the gentleman's compositions.

credits

from Wooczyk Meeklies, track released December 3, 2021
composition: straschill (me)
production, arts and letters: audiolarks (audiolarks.com)

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