ATARAXIA
next step for the end of the millenium
LOST ATLANTIS
"...There
we will hide and vanish,
all in vain at the borders of the moon
feeling that the substance we are made of
has been, sometimes, musical."
F. Pessoa
For 3 years we've
been working on a new project but it's many more years we've
been collecting elements (photos, travels in archeological
sites, readings, collection of historical documents) to translate
into music the most well-known events present in the ancient
scriptures of every faith, religion, country and ancient philosophy.
"LOST
ATLANTIS" embodies the ancestral myth of the sunked
land, an inheritage of all our subconscious wherever we come
from. Legends say that about 50.000 years ago two important
civilizations (having great ESP powers but also a powerful
fascinating and dangerous technology) fought a terrible war
leading them to disappearance. The resulf of all this was
being sunken by the oceans. Before disappearing they thought
to leave signs to the future inhabitants of the earth in order
they wouldn't have done the same mistakes, these traces are
present in many ancient buildings like some pyramids in Egypt,
Mexico and in some Mediterranean and Oceanic islands.
We visited
some of those sites, we took many photos, we studied Plato
and some PaleoAmerican ancient codex, we mixed the founts
more linked to ancient Greece and the disappearance of the
Minoic civilization of Krete and Thera (in Thera, 10.000 years
ago, a volcano eruption annihilated this progressive, pacific
civilization indissolubly linked to the myth of Atlantis)
with more ancient and harsh legends (based on the costumes
of ancient civilizations, different philosophies, traditions)
we trusted on our instinct and sensitivity and we transformed
all of this in a musical suggestion.
We try
to describe the mythic origin of the man through symbols and
create a pagan opera that owns a sacral taste. "From
chaos harmonia is born and once again was chaos", the
genesis, the beginning, a far away past that can be a sort
of warning for the future, the possibility that human beings
have to cancel everything once again without observing, knowing,
meditating on the signs left by some ancient philosophers,
thinkers and wise-men.
Paradoxically
this will be our more actual release even if inspired by happenings
that took place in an uncountable past. Furthermore it will
be our more experimental release till now, there will be a
great use of effects and watery sounds for guitars (classic
and electrics) and voices, the keyboards will be floating,
wrapping-up, an unusual fusion of mysterious pasts and improbable
futures, a synthesis of opposites, a musical research that
corresponds to a personal inner research. The lyrics will
be in English (the future) and ancient Greek (the past). We
need to portray these tragic happening through an ascetic,
ieratic, distant sound, full of nostalgia, detached from the
contingent, giving an idea of ancestral lost but at the sama
time of of elevation. We would like to capture the sounds
of the Mediterranean sea and of the ocean, the oxygen and
the lack of it, a strong spiritual atmosphere. Then there
will be a classic harmony of forms, the turkey blue and the
light white colours, a timeless suspension, a sort of awful
respect for crystalized things.
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The frame
of this release will be a suspended, apocalyptic, visionary
and sometimes sweet and nostalgic spiral of sounds. Some meaningful
and symbolic passages from 'The Book of Dzyan' by Madame Blavatsky
have also been recorded.
Something
about the songs :
'The
Early Days' a slow, embracing, atmospheric introductive
piece of music accompaning the narrating voice that introduces
you to the tragic enrapturing destiny of the sunken land.
'Daytia'
is an euphoric, thoughtless crazy dance before the end. Daytia
was a town of Atlantis destroyed by the hothouse effect and
relative hightening of waters. Liquid guitars, keyboards and
a soprano voice singing in Greek language.
Here
we have the beauty of classic Greece in a slow song full of
Mediterranean atmosphere with pipes, flutes, classic guitars
and timeless ethereal voices, it's called 'Aperlae'
that's a lycian archeological sunken site where stone stairs
disappear in the abyss and the perimeter of houses get lost
in the sea. A sweet voice ends the song recitating a lyric
of Sappho. This is the kind of song that syrens would have
sung to men.
'Dolphins',
experimental track with watery, unusual, ambient keyboards,
guitars and effected voices recalling the ultrasound of dolphins
and their strange nature. Someone thinks that dolphins were
creatures invented by the scientists of Atlantis, a result
of biogenetical experiments. A song devoted to freshness,
intelligence and instinct.
(Vania
Galli, an Italian paintress who has been inspired
by this song)
'Agharti'
this is the song of the spirit. The ancient wise and the owners
of knowledge found the door to enter a parallel dimension
where it was possible to live after the terrible war and the
disappearance of the two mythic continents, this parallel
dimension is protected by electromagnetic mental energy fields,
only the initiated can have a sort of slight contact with
it, this is the underground reign where the ancient Godfathers
have let their lineage and knowledge; musically the song can
be described as a sort of ritual entrance into a sacred votive
temple, the atmosphere is the one we can find in a holy ancient
building. There are flutes and sensual voices that becomes
suddenly high and icy, warm tones and lyric perpendicular
vocal ascensions.
'Fountains'
is another experimental track, everything is seen from an
under-water point of view. You can perceive strange beings
living unnaturally under green brankish waters and communicating
with unusual odd sounds, cries and whispers... Thrilling piece
of ambient music.
'Mu-land'
is a soul track full of strenght, with the piano and a
low energic voice, it is inspired by the continent of Mu,
the eastern civilization and its colours and perfumes.
'Oduarpa'
was an Atlantidean scientist, the one who firstly did
biogenetical experiments between men and animals (represented
in classic Greek mythology by syrens, Tritons, etc...). After
a life of experiments he felt old and tired and looked only
for a green nest to rest, waiting for death, trying to forget.
Atmospheric sad song with sinister nuances and a beautiful
piano passage.
'Lost
Atlantis' Wadding, spinning keyboards sounds, electronic,
martial drums and a soprano choir waving on the texture of
notes. One of the most epic and evocative songs of the album,
a riding on the waves of magma and lava that destroyed the
mythic continent of Atlantis, a vision of desolated, devastated
dwellings, houses like empty eyes-sockets thrown away by the
force and powerfullness of fire and sea. A narrating voice
asks to the sky and destiny who will be worthy of bringing
the azure flower of wisdom, the golden stem of knowledge..........
'The
land of sand of gold of ruin' is a far cosmic song in
a silent sad space where a neverending night reigns. A warning
for the future generations, a voice that will never be heard,
a low narrating speech and a high inhuman singing that traces
the definitive detachement from humanity, this voice is elsewhere,
the substance it is made of it's not known, these are the
words of abandon for an uncountable time...............................................
'Departure'
a recall of the title-track, two voices on martial epic drums,
lyric words taken from Salvatore Quasimodo's poems.
"I
don't mind the harmony of waters,
I'm looking nothing but dissonances,
something more than perfection,
crossing the narrow arch
that I know"
The
founts and ancient scriptures that inspired us are:
* Plato's "Timeo" and "Crizia"
* the "Apocalypse"
* Madame Blavatsky's "The Book of Dzyan"
* some paleoamerican codex
* "Mission De l'Ynde" by Saint-Yves d'Alveidre
* "Historique Biblioteque" by Diodoro Siculo
* "Geography" by Strabone
* "The Histories" by Erodoto
* "Periplum" by Annone Cartaginese
* "Popol Vuh"
* "Giglamesh"
* Seneca, Plutarco, Tertulliano, Gaio Plinio, etc...
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