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Bio: Elmaes are a five piece from Brighton in the UK. We collaborate on individual pieces that reflect our interests under the vague direction of the Cheesemaster. The Sitar is played by Chris Cook, who works as Hot Roddy and Same Actor. He has a cd being issued on BipHop label from France and several cd-rs available from the "Heres my card" label and also some tracks on Wrong Music releases. He also plays many other instruments, but not for us. The Tabla's are played by Marcus Laffan, Brighton's foremost nine fingered percussionist. Marcus has a long and illustrious career, including an LP for McDermotts Two Hours, of which he was a founding member. He has also worked extensively with Ben Paley and Tab Hunter, very fine folk musicians of international renown. The counting that forms the spine of the track is by Ta King, who also provides one of the voices, the other's being the Cheesemaster, Marcus and Caleb Madden. Ta also takes photographs. Caleb Madden also did the production and mix, he is a member of Waxed Apple, who should really have more music around than the tracks available from the Spirit of Gravity.

Track: This piece examines various aspects of the number 5, its rules and its role in our lives: particularly the influence of the "rule of fives". Of course some people see this role as belonging to 23, but as its easy to demonstrate, the rule of 23 is a subset of the rule of fives. Geburah, riding on a white horse. A soldier sits in judgement, A man offers advice and is removed. His WILL is a whip that makes the dying march, The dying march until some are saved. Geburah is the place of moral understanding, severity & fear.
 
The text is inspired, and in cases drawn from Colin Law excellent web resource on Kabbalah. I also rather like his star trek tree of life, where Worf is Geburah the number 5.

Website: www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/elmaes.html