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"Not of father, nor of mother
was my blood, was my body. I was made of nine blossoms, nine powers
in me combined."
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 inscrutable Goddess; "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; "Temenos" is
one of the oldest temples dedicated to the cult of the Goddess; "Kaviria"
were the priests in charge of the initiation rites, "Fengari"
is the highest mountain in the island, the mount of the moon. 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.
"My cassock is red all over, a
million of angels stand on the point of my knife."
CD : 74 minutes, 14 songs + booklet
with the lyrics and several photos portraying ancient and mysterious
environments.
CD released in April 2007 by Ark Records - Italy.
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