Wouldn’t You Like

As Odysseus heads to Circe’s abode, strategy brewing in his head for how he could defeat an all-powerful sorceress, a very helpful god offers his assistance. Hermes, the messenger of gods, offers him a new weapon, the flower moly, which gives the hero safe ground against Circe. In his music, Jorge Riverra-Herrans gave him a characteristic pairing that he calls “harps and arps”, the second word being a short version of arpeggios, lyres, and groovy melodies that can make any listener sway to the song along with the quick-footed god.