A country-folk lamenting the truth of life never gets old, and never will. Fingers that strum the unerring strings of the heart; a voice whose pitch rings true to the soul; ballad blended in white & black. He lets rhymes tell stories, gray, giving pain some slack. Canverra-based songwriter Stephen Dobson’s creative moniker, Ramblerman, does not ramble at all. This multi-talented visual artist and designer has evolved into an exceptional genre-blending songwriter. With Midday Melancholy, Ramblerman touches the sacrosanct of human emotion with style.
Midday Melancholy is an admirable piece of work. Crafty lyrics that dig deep and retrieve the bitter truth from the trenches in the heart left to be forgotten about. Ramblerman’s intentions reverberate throughout the song, while it is his voice that does the majority of the magic. This country-folk-indie song is like a healing balm to the agonized mind, soothing the nerves.
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Melancholy has always been one of my favourite words in the English vocabulary. Yet it is only today, as I sat listening to this song, that a question, which should have arisen much earlier, finally surfaced. Where did this beautiful word originate? What I discovered is ironic. Melancholy, in its rawest form, has a Greek origin: melas, meaning black, and khole, meaning bile. In the study of ancient medicine, this black bile was believed to be a secretion of the spleen and was associated with mental depression. Soon, I realised that the rabbit hole spirals deeper than just that. And so, I thought it wise to end the search there.
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But what ancient and even modern medicine classifies as dis-ease, Ramblerman reclaims as art. Midday Melancholy is not just a song about depression; it honours the empty echo of sadness, shaping the suffering of humans into something outrageously beautiful. The song is a symbolic vessel for the old black bile, transmuting melancholy into melody.
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