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- Anticipations
about a future - Since one year we
are slowly but deeply working on a new full-lenght album to be released
in 2009. It should feature 10/12 songs, many of them have already
been composed and some will be played during our coming concerts.
The recordings will start soon and they will last till the end of
2008. We have already chosen a title (that's the name of the very
first song we have composed for this album) that will be diffused
in the coming months. The concept will be inspired by an herald of
light, an avatar, who has taken body and lived on the earth during
the four ages that mankind has known: the Golden, Silver, Bronze and
Iron ones. This enlightened being has taken different shapes and forms
during his stays (priestress, shaman, king, oak, wild animal, musical
instrument, mountain) and has lived in different places, sometimes
very far the ones with the others, with different traditions, moral
codes, spiritual beliefs. His role was/is the one of keeping alive
hope and bring light and wisdom in dark times, times where our soul
can be defintively lost. The role of this figure is the one of being
at our side till the final steps in order to see if a new awakening,
an aknowledged re-birth in accordance with the harmonic laws of the
cosmos will be possible. Musically western and eastern musical scores
will be mixed or juxtaposed. Occidental music structures (especially
in early and classic music) are more inkeeping with strong shifts
between abrupt heights and depths alternating paceful moments and
huge climax, emotions and sensations. The link is with the air and
earth elements. Oriental music is more inkeeping with the art of enchantment,
an hypnotic spiral of sound leading to meditation, feminine ritual
magic. This music is more linked to the fire and water elements. Liturgical
chants, medieval tunes, celtic ballads, will leave the place to eastern
and western epic rides, elegiac airs and exotic mediterranean perfumes
and suggestions. * - Re-presses
and new editions - The second half
of 2008 and the whole 2009 will be also dedicated to the re-presses
of some out-of-press editions of our previous albums. All of them
will feature a new lay-out and will be digitally remastered. Some
of them will feature bonus tracks (exclusive or belonging to old limited
editions albums that won't be re-pressed any longer). The first one
(out at the end of June/beginning of July 2008) will be "Nosce
Te Ipsum", taken from the second demotape released in far
1991 and then included in the collection album "Ad perpetuam
Rei Memoriam" (now definitively out of press). This new edition,
produced by Twilight Records, will be released in a refined digipack
format . All the info about it can be found on www.ataraxia.net ("news"
and "discography" sections). Check the offer about "Nosce
te Ispum" on the ordering page! * - Forthcoming
collector's item - "OIL ON
CANVAS" will be a marriage among visual art, poetry and music.
Landscapes inspiring soundscapes. Very limited edition item, only
800 copies, scheduled for Autumn 2008. Since several months, thanks
to the collaboration of three talented photographers, five translators
and a very good designer, we are working to a new opus in our multimedia
tradition. "Oil on Canvas" will be a 96 pages small
book (14,5 x 14,5 cm, full-colour hard cover) featuring three different
chapters dedicated to three inspired photographers with whom we share
inspiration and passion for music. The photos will follow three different
paths: the first one will be dedicated to ancient abandoned Italian
houses in ruins, nobleness and beauty confronted with decay; the second
will feature enigmatic statues standing in wonderful English gardens
and parks; the third will be dedicated to Mediterranean landscapes,
nature and wilderness. Each image will be married with Francesca Nicoli's
short poems and lyrics (in Italian and translated into English, French,
Spanish, German and Portuguese) and to Ataraxia's music as a collection
album, featuring 14 tracks (taken from all their repertory but not
present in other collection albums + 1 exclusive track and 1 rarity)
will be included. This opus will be a tribute to photographic art,
places and landscapes that so deeply inspired our music. The release
will be produced by a label from Hong Kong specialized in collector's
items. * - Special offers
- June will be a month dedicated to offers. Quite all the available items of our catalogue will have a 10%, 20%, 25% or even 30% discount and, as usual, for people ordering 4/5 items postal expenses will be really convenient (free for Italy, very low for Europe, a half the normal price for the rest of the world). Some of the titles or digipack editions are going to be sold-out, only a few copies are still available, so please ask for the availability of the titles before ordering them. All the offers can be checked on www.ataraxia.net ("ordering" section) from June 1st 2008. Concerning the very limited edition of the 7 inches "Ultima Thule"- Alpha edition (black vinyl, paper cover, limited to 300 copies, Eclipsis production) featuring one exclusive song of Ataraxia and one exclusive song of Allerseelen, we will be able to sell it EXCLUSIVELY during our coming concerts and only a very small number of copies will be available at our merchandising place. * - Tours and
festivals - Here are the already
scheduled tour dates from July till September 2008, some new dates
will be added in the coming weeks so stay tuned on www.ataraxia.net
"concerts" section. Some tour news will be sent regularly
to all our subscribers. During Summer concerts, several new tracks
will be presented and performed. * Last but not least,
at the very beginning of June you will be able to read a long Ataraxia's
interview on Heathen Harvest webmagazine. For any further info or
updates, please visit www.ataraxia.net , the offical website. If you
want to join Ataraxia's myspace, created and managed by Madame Paquerette,
visit : http://www.myspace.com/atarassia.
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