"A sudden blow: the great wings beating stillAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressedBy his dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.How can those terrified vague fingers pushThe feathered glory from her loosening thighs?How can anybody, laid in that white rush,But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?A shudder in the loins, engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.Being so caught up,So mastered by the brute blood of the air,Did she put on his knowledge with his powerBefore the indifferent beak could let her drop?"
Leda Atomica depicts Leda with the God Zeus in guise of a swan. The double union of Leda with her husband Tyndareus and the Zeus-swan brought forth two eggs, from one egg came the divine Helen and Pollux, the other gave birth to the mortal Clymenestra and Castor. Strangely, this is almost exactly how Leda Atomica formed back in 1997
They are currently adding finishing touches to their album Pocket, Pocket, Help! which has been in gestation seemingly since time immemorial (in reality, since the completion of their previous opus Your Humble Narrator... in 2001) and promises sorrow and succour in equal measures; it has already been branded 'a new low' by relatives of the band, so watch this space...