Odetta Mo Excrucior: Bass

 

Influences: Anonymus; Christophe Beck; Bitch and Animal; Georges Bizet; Gavin Bryars; Emmy Cerra; Johannes Ciconia; John Dowland; Druzhina; Antonín Leopold Dvorák; Danny Elfman; Graham Fitkin; Mauro Giuliani; Philip Glass; Murray Gold; Jerry Goldsmith; Bernard Hermann; Hildegard Von Bingen; Howard Jones; Josquin Des Prez; Kittie; Joseph LoDuca; Heinrich Marschner; Roger Marsh; Metallica; Luis Milan; Ennio Morricone; Moxy Fruvous; Mr. Bungle; Thomas Newman; Michael Nyman; Carl Orff; Rachel Portman; Sergei Prokofiev; Sergei Rachmaninoff; Steve Reich; Saffire, the Uppity Blues Women; Howard Shore; Dmitri Shostakovich; Mark Snow; Sol Dog; Fernando Sor; System of a Down; Michael Torke; Tre; Turku; Franz Waxman; Joss Whedon; Julius P. Williams; Luna Woolf; Zdravets; John Zorn. Folk Dance Music of The Balkans and Mediterranean. Film Scores. Minimilism. Nü Metal. Courtly Dance Music of the Renaissance and Baroque.

 

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

Odetta Mo Excrucior - \OH - deh - tah moh eks - KROO - kee - or\: The Lurking Shadow

When Perseus beheaded the gorgon Medusa, he birthed two creatures -- the winged horse Pegasus and his brother, the giant Khrysaor (so named for the golden sword he bore). Khrysaor, who by some accounts presided over the summer months of the harvest season, disappeared from record at some point after siring tri-formed Geryon with the nymph Kallirhoe -- some reports claiming he placed among the stars, some insistin he was killed by Herakles in the form of the Erymanthian boar.

His sword, the Aor, survived the disappearance of immortal Khrysaor. Through the ages, the Aor had been kept from prying eyes by a cult sacred to Echidna (half-sister to the gorgons and mother of monsters) until it was secreted away by rogue followers of Aphrodite, imbued with her essence by arcane ritual and 'lost' in space and time.

The Aor eventually washed up in Cardiff Bay, where PHARM geneticists, in a misguided attempted to clone Khrysaor using the trace dna found within the pommel of the sword, created a being part gorgon, part erotes. . .destined to keep to the shadows for the safety of humanity while eternally suffering the pangs of unrequited love.

Shortly after creation, Odetta Mo Excrucior (so dubbed by the enigmatic Captain who aided in the escape from PHARM facilities and the evasion of UNIT represectatives) fled Wales and has since been playing pivotal behind the scenes roles in theatre, dance, and music performances on the east coast of North America. Reviled and adored in equal measure, Odetta Mo has been most recently heard (although never seen) playing bass, violin, dumbek and classical guitar in the Boston, MA area.

Noli nothis permittere te terere.