ATARAXIA
next step for the end of the millenium
Lost Atlantis

"...There we will hide and vanish,
all in vain at the borders of the moon
feeling that the substance we are made of
has been, sometimes, musical."
F. Pessoa

For 3 years we've been working on a new project but it's many more years we've been collecting elements (photos, travels in archeological sites, readings, collection of historical documents) to translate into music the most well-known events present in the ancient scriptures of every faith, religion, country and ancient philosophy.

"LOST ATLANTIS" embodies the ancestral myth of the sunked land, an inheritage of all our subconscious wherever we come from. Legends say that about 50.000 years ago two important civilizations (having great ESP powers but also a powerful fascinating and dangerous technology) fought a terrible war leading them to disappearance. The resulf of all this was being sunken by the oceans. Before disappearing they thought to leave signs to the future inhabitants of the earth in order they wouldn't have done the same mistakes, these traces are present in many ancient buildings like some pyramids in Egypt, Mexico and in some Mediterranean and Oceanic islands.

We visited some of those sites, we took many photos, we studied Plato and some PaleoAmerican ancient codex, we mixed the founts more linked to ancient Greece and the disappearance of the Minoic civilization of Krete and Thera (in Thera, 10.000 years ago, a volcano eruption annihilated this progressive, pacific civilization indissolubly linked to the myth of Atlantis) with more ancient and harsh legends (based on the costumes of ancient civilizations, different philosophies, traditions) we trusted on our instinct and sensitivity and we transformed all of this in a musical suggestion.

We try to describe the mythic origin of the man through symbols and create a pagan opera that owns a sacral taste. "From chaos harmonia is born and once again was chaos", the genesis, the beginning, a far away past that can be a sort of warning for the future, the possibility that human beings have to cancel everything once again without observing, knowing, meditating on the signs left by some ancient philosophers, thinkers and wise-men.

Paradoxically this will be our more actual release even if inspired by happenings that took place in an uncountable past. Furthermore it will be our more experimental release till now, there will be a great use of effects and watery sounds for guitars (classic and electrics) and voices, the keyboards will be floating, wrapping-up, an unusual fusion of mysterious pasts and improbable futures, a synthesis of opposites, a musical research that corresponds to a personal inner research. The lyrics will be in English (the future) and ancient Greek (the past). We need to portray these tragic happening through an ascetic, ieratic, distant sound, full of nostalgia, detached from the contingent, giving an idea of ancestral lost but at the sama time of of elevation. We would like to capture the sounds of the Mediterranean sea and of the ocean, the oxygen and the lack of it, a strong spiritual atmosphere. Then there will be a classic harmony of forms, the turkey blue and the light white colours, a timeless suspension, a sort of awful respect for crystalized things.

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The frame of this release will be a suspended, apocalyptic, visionary and sometimes sweet and nostalgic spiral of sounds. Some meaningful and symbolic passages from 'The Book of Dzyan' by Madame Blavatsky have also been recorded.

Something about the songs :

'The Early Days' a slow, embracing, atmospheric introductive piece of music accompaning the narrating voice that introduces you to the tragic enrapturing destiny of the sunken land.

'Daytia' is an euphoric, thoughtless crazy dance before the end. Daytia was a town of Atlantis destroyed by the hothouse effect and relative hightening of waters. Liquid guitars, keyboards and a soprano voice singing in Greek language.
Here we have the beauty of classic Greece in a slow song full of Mediterranean atmosphere with pipes, flutes, classic guitars and timeless ethereal voices, it's called 'Aperlae' that's a lycian archeological sunken site where stone stairs disappear in the abyss and the perimeter of houses get lost in the sea. A sweet voice ends the song recitating a lyric of Sappho. This is the kind of song that syrens would have sung to men.

'Dolphins', experimental track with watery, unusual, ambient keyboards, guitars and effected voices recalling the ultrasound of dolphins and their strange nature. Someone thinks that dolphins were creatures invented by the scientists of Atlantis, a result of biogenetical experiments. A song devoted to freshness, intelligence and instinct.
(Vania Galli, an Italian paintress who has been inspired by this song)

'Agharti' this is the song of the spirit. The ancient wise and the owners of knowledge found the door to enter a parallel dimension where it was possible to live after the terrible war and the disappearance of the two mythic continents, this parallel dimension is protected by electromagnetic mental energy fields, only the initiated can have a sort of slight contact with it, this is the underground reign where the ancient Godfathers have let their lineage and knowledge; musically the song can be described as a sort of ritual entrance into a sacred votive temple, the atmosphere is the one we can find in a holy ancient building. There are flutes and sensual voices that becomes suddenly high and icy, warm tones and lyric perpendicular vocal ascensions.

'Fountains' is another experimental track, everything is seen from an under-water point of view. You can perceive strange beings living unnaturally under green brankish waters and communicating with unusual odd sounds, cries and whispers... Thrilling piece of ambient music.

'Mu-land' is a soul track full of strenght, with the piano and a low energic voice, it is inspired by the continent of Mu, the eastern civilization and its colours and perfumes.

'Oduarpa' was an Atlantidean scientist, the one who firstly did biogenetical experiments between men and animals (represented in classic Greek mythology by syrens, Tritons, etc...). After a life of experiments he felt old and tired and looked only for a green nest to rest, waiting for death, trying to forget. Atmospheric sad song with sinister nuances and a beautiful piano passage.

'Lost Atlantis' Wadding, spinning keyboards sounds, electronic, martial drums and a soprano choir waving on the texture of notes. One of the most epic and evocative songs of the album, a riding on the waves of magma and lava that destroyed the mythic continent of Atlantis, a vision of desolated, devastated dwellings, houses like empty eyes-sockets thrown away by the force and powerfullness of fire and sea. A narrating voice asks to the sky and destiny who will be worthy of bringing the azure flower of wisdom, the golden stem of knowledge.

'The land of sand of gold of ruin' is a far cosmic song in a silent sad space where a neverending night reigns. A warning for the future generations, a voice that will never be heard, a low narrating speech and a high inhuman singing that traces the definitive detachement from humanity, this voice is elsewhere, the substance it is made of it's not known, these are the words of abandon for an uncountable time.

'Departure' a recall of the title-track, two voices on martial epic drums, lyric words taken from Salvatore Quasimodo's poems.

"I don't mind the harmony of waters,
I'm looking nothing but dissonances,
something more than perfection,
crossing the narrow arch
that I know"

 

The founts and ancient scriptures that inspired us are :

* Plato's "Timeo" and "Crizia"
* the "Apocalypse"
* Madame Blavatsky's "The Book of Dzyan"
* some paleoamerican codex
* "Mission De l'Ynde" by Saint-Yves d'Alveidre
* "Historique Biblioteque" by Diodoro Siculo
* "Geography" by Strabone
* "The Histories" by Erodoto
* "Periplum" by Annone Cartaginese
* "Popol Vuh"
* "Giglamesh"
* Seneca, Plutarco, Tertulliano, Gaio Plinio, etc..