Satanic Slavs: Scriabin & The Promethean Chord

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Listen to this. Scriabin was a composer during the Silver Age of Russian art at the dawn of the 20th Century. He began to compose using a tri-tone rather than classical harmony and called this the "Promethean Chord". He was an admirer of Nietzsche and saw Western Europe as ruled by orderly Apollo but found Dionysus to be the true Slavic God. He created this music to express and unleash the Dionysian soul of Russia. He was a bit of a Theosophist too. Lots of interesting characters around that time. If the "Mystical Anarchists" had won the day instead of the Bolsheviks we would be living in a much stranger world.