Home by Snowlight

Notes

// Station 1 // Lore

A lullaby about a child of the Pleiades

traveling home through hills and across frozen lakes —

Usually the journey is calm but

on this foggy night

the snow seems especially mischievous ❄️

// Station 2 // Field Notes

"Home by Snowlight" seems to vary widely across local cultures, its themes collected in different ways under a range of different titles. Common to all of the versions that we found, however, is that this lullaby is often sung on the darkest of nights, or when fears are the greatest. The storyteller, usually a caretaker, seems at liberty to add details into the song which might address the child's fears — especially, we noticed, by highlighting the skills, inventiveness, and creativity of the hero.

(The child does, after all manner of dangers and trouble, arrive home safe and sound.)

As such, our attempts at transcription include improvised melodies in its middle section, in order to best represent this space for spontaneous story-making. Performances of this lullaby, as we witnessed them, often were accompanied by dance or pantomime.

// Station 3 // Collector Perks

This is a 1/1 Catalog NFT track composed, performed, and pressed by Eric Pan (pandelic.eth).

Every owner of a pandelic.eth Catalog NFT also receives unlimited, "golden ticket" download access to Eric's entire published music catalog, in resolutions up to MP3 V0 and lossless WAV. As of this pressing, this includes the following:

+ Travel Poems . Chapter 1 . Secret towns (LP)

+ Travel Poems . Chapter 2 . The night sea (LP)

+ Travel Poems . Chapter 3 . There is no path back (LP)

+ Lullabies of the Pleiades (EP)

+ goodnight margaret wise brown (single)

+ the year the shipwreck became beautiful (single)

+ Extras: full-resolution cover art, liner notes, music videos

Every collector with golden-ticket status also has access to Eric Pan's future music+extras as they become published. Collectors ready to redeem downloads can email gm@ericpan.org at any time for access, as well as in case of any questions.

More expansive and exclusive perks will be unveiled over time.