"Invisible
dwellings that we have built taking refuge from time."
M. Yourcenar
There
was a time in which the olympic and monotheistic religions were
not flourishing yet, there was a far time in which a primordial
cult, inspired by the White Goddess's power, was practised and
felt. In the island of Samothrace, the triple Goddess devoted
to the earth, the night and the everflowing cycle of nature
was reigning. In order to be initiated into her mysteries, men
and women, Greeks and foreigners, free people and slaves had
to submit to nine rituals called creation, dominion, love, birth,
sacrifice, ablution, memory and crowning. The last ritual had
no name, the ninth ritual couldn't be revealed. Fascinated by
the mistery surrounding the island and feeling the urge to portray
in music an age and a place where the balance between the feminine
and manly powers and their deep link with the nature voice and
rhythms were as natural as life itself, we started the adventurous
creation of this album. The music draws archaic mantras, ritual
movements and lunar elegies, whispers magic spells and eastern
litanies, forge tribal rhythms and dark ceremonies inspired
by Samothrace's full of energies sites. "Kremasta Nera"
is a thirty metres high cascade falling in the sea from a sheer
cliff; "Axieros" is the name of the inscrutableGoddess;
"Gria Vathra" is an enchanted glade where the sound
of rivers, sources and the caresses of the wind on the leaves
create a magic natural simphony; "Kaviria" were the
priests in charge of the initiation rites, "Fengari"
is the highest mountain in the island, the mount of the moon;
"Therma" is a place rich of powerful curative springs;
"Klethra" is a divinatory spell linked to the soul
of the forest; "Migratio Animae", the trasmigration
of the souls, is a long voyage from a form into another, a painful
progression, a spiritual evolution.
This album is inspired by the lights and shadows of an extinguished
civilization, a lost world which eclipsed with its secrets.
A mix of acoustic sounds, strings, electronic and eastern percussions
and a deep evocative singing become the door to enter the purple
reign of the Goddess.
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A felt following of "Lost
Atlantis". The natural accomplishment of the voyage.
"What I was able to say has been said.
What I was able to learn has been learnt." M.
Yourcenar
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