Acclaimed vocalist Nad Sylvan has released a new single and music video for the song “The Hawk.” The track appears in Sylvan’s new album “Spiritus Mundi,” scheduled for release on April 9th, 2021.
The song’s lyrics are based on a poem by Nobel prize winning author W. B. Yeats:
The Hawk 'Call down the hawk from the air; Let him be hooded or caged Till the yellow eye has grown mild, For larder and spit are bare, The old cook enraged, The scullion gone wild.'
'I will not be clapped in a hood, Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist, Now I have learnt to be proud Hovering over the wood In the broken mist Or tumbling cloud.'
'What tumbling cloud did you cleave, Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind, Last evening? that I, who had sat Dumbfounded before a knave, Should give to my friend A pretence of wit.'
The music is based on a primitive guitar and vocal demo by Andrew Laitres, which Nad then developed into the actual song.
Nad Sylvan’s previous work was centered one the remarkable trilogy of progressive rock albums following the tales of “The Vampirate, ”including 2015’s Courting the Widow, 2017’s The Bride Said No, and 2019’s The Regal Bastard,