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Kontiki
Classical guitar, MIDI guitar, cello, vocals, ocean waves.
This piece was inspired by the 1950 book by Thor Heyerdahl, the famed Norwegian explorer. Heyerdahl and his gang build a raft and floated across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia in a 3 month voyage proving that it would have been physically possible for ancient people from Peru to have crossed the Pacific. Heyerdahl proposed that the Polynesians were descendants of an ancient race of Peruvians who survived the journey by raft. Modern day DNA evidence has overturned this theory. Yet the book Kon-Tiki and the courage of Heyerdahl to float across the entire pacific on a raft captured the imagination and awe of a generation.
Mid-way in the piece something magical happens to the line of floating rafts… The vastness of the Pacific ocean traversed by a raft floating for over 100 days in Kontiki somehow reminds one of the vastness of the lost ocean on Mars.
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Lyrics
When...will...we...
Reach...the...land...?
End...less...ly...
with...out...sand...
Gold...en...sun...
wind...and...rain...
Wear...il..ly...
we...drift...on...