THE WAY TO THE HEAVENS

Since the beginning of times, the instinctive language of music has been connected with the order of the cosmos. According to Pitagoras, the universe was pure singing, a planetary symphony. Plato thought that music enabled us to attain the highest knowledge; it was the key, the door and the casket at once. During the Renaissance, the Florence Neo-Platonic school believed that the musical instruments, thanks to their shapes, the materials they were made of and the sounds they emitted, were strictly linked to the alchemical elements. Music was the expression of the cosmic harmony, the form given to the symbolic order of the principle and permitted the human beings to harmonize themselves progressively with the universe. Music was the way to the heavens…


STRANGE LIGHTS - A.D. MMV

At the beginning of 2005, in an ancient place where the stone speaks, we weaved tangible visions with golden threads and precious gems to offer them to our listeners. We performed an acoustic session featuring some of our most beautiful songs in an exclusive version for piano, classic guitar, bells and vocals. For this special occasion we chiselled original arrangements and interpreted with a new sensitivity all the songs.

We have called this unique performance "Strange Lights", being inspired by the prophetic masks of Angelo Zanella, copper simulacra treasuring the karma of several living and dead persons and of some elemental spirits. Angelo, took simbolically part to the rite of music lighting the candles hidden inside each sculpted face. He lit up their eyes. And music came !

The plucked and struck strings, the vibrations of the air produced by the chimes and the vocals created a celestial harmony. A naked, essential sound, deeply evocative in its purity, became our way to the heavens …
This live album will be released as a double digipack CD limited to 2000 copies. The first CD will feature the acoustic session played by ATARAXIA (among the songs, 'Strange Lights' and 'Seas of the moon', exclusive tracks, 'Les Tisseuses Lunaires', revisited version of a tune belonging to the 1993 tape 'Arazzi', and some airs belonging to sold out limited edition albums). The second CD will feature the acoustic concert of Autunna et sa Rose recorded in the church of S. Michele in Rovigo.

Francesca Nicoli : vocals, flute
Vittorio Vandelli : classic guitar, back vocals
Giovanni Pagliari : piano
Riccardo Spaggiari : chimes, bells, tar, ocean drum