oil on canvas
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2009
Book + CD produced by Ultramail Prod. - Hong Kong
Limited editon of 800 hand-numbered copies - collector's item
Release date January 2009
{ Flash presentation }

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PART I
' I AM A TEAR THE SUN LET FALL '

"Like Perceval,
I went through nights and days of unforeseen events and enlightenments.
Visions always accompanied me pouring fresh and bright into my eyes.
My body strolls along a black and greasy downtown street
but the limpid visions project me elsewhere.
It is no effort to me being somewhere rather than somewhere else,
I don't take decisions, I let myself be transported by a flow of images
that becomes a flow of life.
I possess the gift of ubiquity."

photos by RAFFAELLA GRAZIOSI
verses by FRANCESCA NICOLI
music by ATARAXIA

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PART II
' LE SOUFFLE ANIMÉ '

"I have lost and regained my chant with its ancient colours
which shine whenever I plunge into the vegetation of many greens."

photos by MICK MERCER
verses by FRANCESCA NICOLI
music by ATARAXIA

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PART III
' ORO '

"When burning summer
embroiders on the earth
purpureal drapes
with gracious fingers,
and it advances, with sparkling face,
in precious sandals,
on the black ground of now greener grass,
I become receptacle of chants."

photos by LIVIO BEDESCHI
verses by FRANCESCA NICOLI
music by ATARAXIA

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CD TRACK LIST

Fengari
(from "Kremasta Nera"- 2007)
The bay is white in silent light
(from V. Vandelli "A day of warm rain in heaven"- 2004)
Pastorale
(from "Simphonia Sine Nomine"- 1994)
Zelia
(from "La Malédiction d'Ondine"- 1995/2007)
Mon Ame Sorcière
(from "Sueños"- 2001)
La reine des hommes aux yeux verts
(from "Paris Spleen"- 2006)
Blood of cherries
(from "Saphir"- 2004)
Daytia
(from "Lost Atlantis"- 1999)
Dulcamara
(from "Concerto N. 6"- 1996)
Flée et Fabian
(from "Nosce Te Ispum" - 1991/2008)
Eaudelamer
(from "Mon Seul désir"- 2002)
Temenos
(rare track - 2007)
The Ocean Green
(from V. Vandelli "A day of warm rain in heaven"- 2004)
Rashan
(exclusive new track- 2008)

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"Landscapes inspiring soundscapes.
A marriage among visual art, poetry and music. "

From December 2007, thanks to the collaboration of three talented photographers, six translators and a very engaged designer, we have focused our creative efforts to the release of a new opus in our multimedia tradition.
"Oil on Canvas" is a 96 pages 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 follow three different paths: the first one, with photos by Raffaella Graziosi, is dedicated to ancient Italian houses in ruins, nobleness and beauty confronted with decay; the second, with photos by Mick Mercer, features enigmatic statues standing in wonderful English gardens and parks; the third, with photos by Livio Bedeschi, is dedicated to Mediterranean landscapes, nature and wilderness. Each image is married with Francesca Nicoli's verses and lyrics (in her mother-tongue Italian and translated into English by Giovanni Pagliari and Francesca Nicoli, French by Nicolas Ramain, Spanish by Araceli Cabrero Castel, German by Daisy Steinert and Portuguese/Brasilian by Pedro Georges Eleftheriou) and to Ataraxia's music as a collection album, featuring 14 tracks (taken from all their repertory - but not present in other collection albums -, from V. Vandelli's solo album + 1 exclusive track and 1 rarity) is included. This opus is a tribute to photographic art, far-off places and landscapes that so deeply inspired our creative journey and music. The release is produced by Ultramail Prod., a label from Hong Kong specialized in collector's items. It is released in ONLY 800 copies.

The first 100 copies are contained in a box and feature a collection of 12 postcards (among them, the first 48 copies contain a further unique card each) and a poster. The further 700 standard copies consist of the hard-cover book with CD included (in a six panel digipack case) + 3 postcards all put in a slipcase.

CD : 1 exclusive new track, 1 rare track + 12 digitally remastered songs taken from several Ataraxia's past album and from Vittorio Vandelli's solo CD (total length around 70 mn). Dreamy, fairy and neo-classical atmospheres.