“…She smoked a makeshift pipe
and carved her name in a stone
in the wall of an abandoned
old colonial home.
The remnants of her livin’ days
are names in a wall.
They’ll be gone with the ashes
when they crumble and fall,
gone with the ashes
when they crumble and fall…”
– “The Rhythm of Her Name,’ The Rumjacks
The Rumjacks have shared the video for their delicate, poetic-al, Celtic-ish song celebrating life while raging against mortality called, “Rhythm Of Her Name.” The track is featured on their crazy-great new album Hestia. The “City of the Elms” referenced in the song’s first line is New Haven, Connecticut, an area of the USA with no shortage of “old colonial homes” and the location of (the storied, ancient, gothic, almost Ireland-like) Yale University.
Vocalist Mike Rivkees (who also directed and edited the clip) says, “‘Rhythm of Her Name’ is one of those songs that only can arise out of tragedy. With ghastly undertones in both lyrics and video, the combination of the two has created some of my proudest work as both a songwriter and filmmaker. Being able to intertwine these to tell a full story (without giving away the song’s true meaning), has made this one really shine. “
When writing Hestia (named after the Greek goddess of home and hearth), bandmembers Mike Rivkees (vocals), Johnny McKelvey (bass), Gabe Whitbourne (guitar), Adam Kenny (bouzouki/mandolin), and Pietro Della Sala (drums) applied their diverse American, Australian, Italian, and Irish perspectives to create a new, globalized iteration of the Celtic punk legacy dating back to The Pogues, with punk, ska, and hard rock influences pulsing through their veins.
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