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in archeological sites, readings, collection of historical
documents) to translate into music the most well-known events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..
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