The Fountains of Ortigia (Cinematic Symphonic Progressive Rock)

THE FOUNTAINS OF ORTIGIA UAI VIRTUAL SOUL Some stories refuse to disappear. They only change form. THE FOUNTAINS OF ORTIGIA was born from the ancient story of Arethusa — a tale of pursuit, transformation and, above all, freedom. Fleeing Alpheus and refusing to surrender her freedom, Arethusa is transformed into water. Her journey continues beneath the earth and sea until her waters rise again on the shores of Ortigia. But this song also carries a much more personal musical memory. In 1977, Spartacus by Triumvirat became the first vinyl album I ever bought. Almost five decades later, that musical universe still echoes within me. When I discovered the story of Arethusa, one particular musical memory immediately returned: The Sweetest Sound of Liberty, by Triumvirat. From that unexpected meeting between mythology, memory, freedom and progressive rock, THE FOUNTAINS OF ORTIGIA was born. Not as a simple retelling of the past, but as an attempt to let an ancient story travel through time once again — now through music. 🎧 Best experienced with headphones. Some chains are broken by force. Others are broken by becoming impossible to hold. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎵 LYRICS — THE FOUNTAINS OF ORTIGIA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The silver bow now rests upon the wall The quiet woods obey the shadows' call I thought I walked alone within my peace But currents stir, the silence has to cease A heavy mist is rising from the stream The water breathes, dissolving like a dream The ground is shaking deep beneath my feet Alpheus rises where the rivers meet No polished words, just hunger in his eyes I run through jagged rocks, beneath the skies His burning breath is tight upon my neck My sacred vow is heading for a wreck Goddess, hear my breath! Don't let me fall! The air turns into cloud, it shrouds it all My flesh is melting, fading into space My veins are rivers, losing mortal face I dissolve into the earth, I break the chain Transforming into water, free from pain Far beneath the salty, heavy sea A hidden current sets my spirit free In Ortygia's golden shores, the waters rise Pure and sweet beneath the open skies Where papyrus grows and lonely seagulls cry The mortal turns divine, we never die ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ UAI VIRTUAL SOUL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Music, memory and stories without borders. Arethusa chose transformation rather than surrendering her freedom. If freedom required you to leave behind the person you once were… would you change? Thank you for listening. I would really like to know how THE FOUNTAINS OF ORTIGIA reached you. 🎧 Listen. Feel. Question. #UaiVirtualSoul #TheFountainsOfOrtigia #ProgressiveRock #SymphonicRock #CinematicRock #ProgRock #GreekMythology #Arethusa #Ortigia #OriginalMusic