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This is one of our albums
that doesn't own a defined style like we did in many other occasions
to portray special historical periods, forgotten civilisations
or artistic masterpieces, for this reason we think that this
release is in a pure ATARAXIA's style.
This happened sometimes in the past, after very engaging and
monumental works where all our energies were employed to carry
on a concept theme (not only musical but also literary, historical,
archaeological). So a new bizarre creature is born in total
freedom in this beginning of 2002, just a mirror of our most
intimate feelings in the last 12 months. This album has two
great literary and iconographical inspirations but the deepest
source of inspiration comes from some happenings of that crazy,
troubled, unexpected 2001 that turned up-side-down the lives
of many of us after many years of apparent tranquillity and
stability. These two further sources are "The Canticle of Canticles"
of King Solomon (one of the most beautiful piece of poetry portraying
love both in a symbolic/spiritual and in a most bodily perspective)
and the cycle of late-Mediaeval tapestries "La Dame à la Licorne"
collected in the Mediaeval Museum of Cluny in Paris. These 6
tapestries represent in a symbolic way the 5 senses and the
overcoming of them to find equilibrium, pleasure and purity.
We could easily say that all of this has the same meaning of
the name of the band, the word ATARAXIA. We deeply perceive
that this research, this strange fatal meeting with the tapestries
and the Canticle has been driven by destiny. After many previous
albums based on pain, struggle, persecuted, far lands, voyagers
and pilgrims, sunken civilisations we have finally released
an album based on love, not a simplistic taken for granted vision
of love, but love in all his power, light and strength, unique
love driven by destiny, the one that unifies elected souls after
centuries of solitude, the one that can save our wrecked poor
life when we are agonising, hopeless, deceived. The songs are
actually various, you can find ballads made of high clear skies
where the wind blows over a Northern Ocean, wide fresh surfaces
of green, watery hypnotic waves where it's possible to perceive
that salty essence of the sea, hidden gardens full of colours,
the up and down of the tide, but we have also Eastern and Mediaeval
love songs completely remade and rearranged by us with many
acoustic instruments like percussions, ancient guitars, bells
and various amenities. These last songs have all a contemporary
nuance, old traditions carried here in our times to be heard
and understood with a modern spirit.
Listening "Mon Seul Désir" you'll find a green path leading
to an enchanted lake in a sort of purifying journey to get rid
of our painful, unhappy condition, you'll perceive the deep
connection among love and music, a rosy awakening at dawn, a
moment where everything is undefined and the passing among a
dreamy state to a conscious one is prophetic and magic describable
only through the poetry of notes.
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