Odessey and Oracle

Yester-day was the anniversary of the concert that was recorded for the Odessey & Oracle {Revisited} CD and DVD (on 8 March 2008), so I watched it again.  In the original album liner notes, there's a quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest:

Be not afraid;

The Isle is full of noises

Sound, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices

Caliban says this to Stephano and Trinculo in Act 3, Scene 2 (roughly lines 131-134), although in the two editions of the play that I have, it's formatted a bit differently:

Be not afeard.  The isle is full of noises,

Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices

That, if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again

I recently re-read The Tempest and noticed a detail that, purely coincidentally, is related to this 40th anniversary concert version of "Butcher's Tale."  During the concert, Rod comments on the "1896 Victorian pedal organ similar to the one [used on the original recording] that Chris gave away many years ago and I had to go searching for for these concerts."  In a few shots, it can be seen that the organ was made by the Clarabella Organ Co.:

In The Tempest, Alonso's daughter (who's merely mentioned in the play, at II.i.68, 240, 253, and V.i.209) is named Claribel, which is just a slightly different form of Clarabella.

In re-reading The Tempest, I also noticed that the word oracle appears a couple times.  At the beginning of Act 4, Scene 1, after Prospero tells Ferdinand that Miranda "will outstrip all praise," Ferdinand replies, "I do believe it / Against an oracle" (lines 11-12), and in Act 5, Scene 1, Alonso, reflecting on his experience on the island, says,

This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod,

And there is in this business more than nature

Was ever conduct of.  Some oracle

Must rectify our knowledge.  (lines 242-245)

Caliban's lines are quoted in the liner notes, so maybe one of these instances of oracle had something to do with the album's title.

The title also seems to reference the Greek epic poem The Odyssey, and it occurred to me that The Odyssey and The Tempest both deal with maritime voyages (although most of The Tempest occurs after a shipwreck).

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For what it's worth:  on Rod's birthday a couple years ago, the Zombies' social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram) posted an old picture of him at an organ, and this seems to be the original "Butcher's Tale" organ.