Chandi

Chandi sets self-conceit beside self-deprecation, finding ego at the center of both. Its speaker recognizes a master whose influence reaches beyond the self, while the images of soldiers and demon warriors describe forces that prevent the divinity within from shining. Against that recognition, the refrain offers a repeated request for guidance: Chandi, won’t you lead me.

Seraphino records this Hermit Bastard song in tribute to the late Scot Gordon. Together with Crazy Women, it remembers Gordon through his songwriting, giving space to the spiritual searching of this song as well as the romantic uncertainty of its companion cover. The dedication is carried by the performance of the music itself.