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Lu Cardillo

from Abundance by Sophie Fetokaki

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  • ✿ This votive candle comes with one of twelve high-quality postcard prints of the album artwork. The postcards each have a unique digital download code for the album printed on the back. The candle is made of beeswax with sweet almond cream fragrance. It was created by making a silicone mould from a 3d scan and print of myself, in the pose in which I appear on the album cover. You can see a video of it burning along to "Almonds of the Present Moment" here: youtu.be/RUX8nNBT5IM

    ✿ Votive candles are used to aid prayer in many spiritual practices. I imagine them to clarify and illumine the intention of the one who prays, and to act as offerings to the forces that help bring about what is desired.

    ✿ This particular candle is modelled on the Greek Orthodox τάματα (tamata), votive offerings (often in candle form) that are dedicated to a saint, and act as a link between individual human desire and infinite, divine life force. I'm drawn to these objects because of the association for me with the healing power of art.

    ✿ This votive candle is the physical manifestation of Abundance.

    ✿ I light it to thank the life force for my continued creative transformation through music and song. I light it to illumine my path through future transformations, as long as I move and breathe. I light it to thank the life force for my return to the earth, once I move and breathe no more. I invite you to light it, to meditate on your own time and on all you wish to creatively transform in yourself.

    ✿ The Abundance votive candle was realised through the generous collaboration of Savvas Avraam at CYENS - Thinker Maker Space (3d scan and print) and Vasiliki Riala at ÷χρονικό (silicone mould and candle).     ... more
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lyrics

Sto crescenno nu bello cardillo
Quanta cose che l’aggio ‘mpara’
Adda ire da chisto e da chillo
Ll’immasciate po’ m’adda purta’
Siente cca’ bello mio lloco ‘nnanze
c’e’ na casa ‘na nenna ‘nc’e’ stà
tu la vide ca nun è distante
chella nenna aje da ire a truvà.

I'm breeding a lovely goldfinch
what a lot of things I need to teach him!
He must flit here and there
And carry messages for me.
Listen to me, sweet bird, not far from here
there is a house, a girl lives there
you can see it, it's not far -
that’s the girl you must seek.

Si la truove ca stace durmenno
pe’ ‘na fata gue’ nun ‘a piglia’
nu rummore nun fa cu li penne
guè cardì tu l’avissa scetà?
Si affacciata po’ stà a lu barcone
Pe’ na rosa l’avisssa piglià?
Gue’ cardi’ vi’ ca lla’ nun te stuone
Va vattenne cardi’ n’addurà.

If you find her sleeping
don't mistake her for a fairy
don't rustle your feathers
be careful, goldfinch, not to wake her.
If she's standing at the balcony
Don’t mistake her for a rose!
Goldfinch, take care not to get intoxicated
go from there, goldfinch, don't inhale her perfume.

Si la truove che face l’ammore
‘stu curtiello annascunnete cca’
‘nficcancillo deritto allu core
e lu sango tu m’aje da purtà.
Ma si pensa vattè chianu chianu
Zitto zitto te nce l’aje accustà.
Si afferrà po’ te vo’ co’ la mano
priesto ‘mpietto tu l’aje da zumpa’.

If you find her making love
Take this concealed knife
stick it straight into her heart
and bring me her blood
But if she's thinking, move very softly,
Approach her oh so quietly
And if she catches you with her hand
you must spring quickly in her bosom.

Si te vasa o t’afferra cianciosa
tanno tu l’aje a dire accussiì:
“lu patrone pe’ te nun reposa
puveriello pecchè adda murì.”
T’accarezza te vasa ah… viato
chiu’ de me tu si certo cardi’
Si cu’ tico cagnarme m’è dato
doppo voglio davvero muri’.

If she kisses or embraces you
You must say to her:
“My master cannot sleep for love of you,
The poor thing, why must he suffer?”
If she caresses you, and kisses you
More blessed are you than I, little bird,
If I could exchange places with you,
I would be happy to die.

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from Abundance, released November 15, 2021

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