After 11 years from its very first appearance
on VHS, this unforgettable live album of ATARAXIA has be finally
released on DVD + CD in a very limited and luxury edition of
500 copies distributed in ASIA only and through ATARAXIAs
mailorder. New format, new layout with an AUDIO CD containing
10 live tracks + a DVD containing the live performance the band
gave in Lisbon in 1998. This album was inspired and dedicated
to the Portuguese Knight Templars, never persecuted by the church,
always protected by kings.
"Portugal is a casket of secrets.
Our voyage in a land which flavours as Time was a sort of spiritual
initiation among the noble testimonies of stone standing along
our way, stone symphonies concealing the mysteries of equilibrium
and wisdom.
We spent time meditating inside the walls of embroidered cloisters,
in the ascetic stillness of cathedrals, on the top of steep
cliffs of this western edge of Europe opening on the ocean.
The Portuguese experience was a revelation: Mosteiro dos Jeronimos,
Alcobaca, Batalha, Tomar are all passages to get illumination.
Its amazing to perceive these places so full of sacredness,
places that have managed to transmit knowledge all over the
centuries, still breathe.
From this voyage we have come back changed and enriched. We
return music for what we have received from silence.
The voyage goes on...
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