Ball of Wax 67 Songs: Drekka – “Without Revelation There Is No Love [Instrumental]”

In 1989’s Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music, Peter van der Merwe wrote “Of all harmonic devices, it [a drone] is not only the simplest, but probably also the most fertile.” Drekka’s “Without Revelation There Is No Love [Instrumental]” begins with a drone that slowly pulses, breathes, and establishes the musical landscape from which the rest of the song’s instrumentation is grown. Initially, there is nothing but the drone. Slowly, a guitar begins to take root. A deliberate percussive beat nourishes the mix. One can imagine the sun rising and shadows stretching across a field. Life finding its way. A season unfolding until the harvest. The instrumentation falls. And there is nothing left but that most fertile drone.