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Obnubilate

from PLANETOID by Drumbelievables Ireland

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The beginning of the track is obscure and uncertain intentionally to depict anxiety and depression, darkened or covered with or as if it were a cloud; obscure. Rhythm blows that negativity and uncertainty away.

The meaning of obnubilate becomes clearer when you know that its ancestors are the Latin terms ob- (meaning "in the way") and nubes ("cloud"). It's a high-flown sounding word, which may be why it often turns up in texts by and about politicians. This has been true for a long time.

In fact, when the U.S. Constitution was up for ratification, a 18th-Century Pennsylvania statesman James Wilson used obnubilate to calm fears that the president would have too much power: "Our first executive magistrate is not obnubilate behind the mysterious obscurity of counsellors…. He is the dignified, but accountable magistrate of a free and great people."

In the same way the Word “Obnubilate” is rare in today's Modern language, so too are the rare chops and groves and odd meter beats in this piece. Something odd, obscure and odd meter is commonplace in Drumbelievables Gatherings because we embrace the unfamiliar, the rare, the original expressions in the drumming languages of the world.

© Drumbelievables Ireland, Composed and written by Drummer Noelee Drumbelievables Founder.
03.04.2020

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from PLANETOID, released May 17, 2020

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