{"id":11345,"date":"2022-10-06T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=11345"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:34:11","slug":"buttkickin-halloween-songs-calliope-nox-arcana-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2022\/10\/06\/buttkickin-halloween-songs-calliope-nox-arcana-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Calliope” — Nox Arcana (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What, no lyrics? You guessed right Hokeyfolks, today we are featuring our first of what will probably be a few instrumentals this year. After all, there’s nothing like some creepy ambient music to scratch that foreboding nighttime itch. And we plan to yield to that desire today.<\/p>\n

So let’s kick things off with Calliope<\/strong> from the dark classical\/ambient project Nox Arcana. The song hearkens back to their 2006 album Carnival of Lost Souls, <\/em>which has zero to do with gloriously bonkers late 60s independent horror movie of the same name and is apparently a take on the great Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave all the storyline summations to the etheric wisps of digital rain and turn back to the song itself, which orbits around a titular pipe organ, welcoming us to some nighttime carnival that maybe we’ve never seen before but somehow has always been there.<\/p>\n

Between the mournful bells and the constant giggling from an unseen child, Calliope<\/strong> lures and traps us inside its lurid enticements. A recurring and paralyzing nightmare, yes, but one we recall only in the dreaming world. The carnival and memories of it dissipate come daylight. Nothing remains, save for a vague, unsettling intangibility that never really goes away…<\/p>\n