Matre, Ørjan: Nephilim Song 10′
Nephilim Song was first performed by Frode Haltli at Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 29.04.12.
A Nephilim is a mysterious term that are mentioned twice in the Bible, one of them beeing in the first Genesis 6:4: “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days. and also afterward, when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men
of renown.” What a Nephilim is is not explained, but several theories exist. One of them is that the Nephilims actually where offsprings of angels and men, a monstrous half-breed, that eventually leads God to flood the earth to remove all traces of them.
Nephilim Song uses two types of material, an ethereal, soft material in the extremely high register of the
accordion, and a rougher, rhythmical material, but of course also the monstrous half-breed between them.
Ørjan Matre