The Joy Of Nature – The Empty Circle Part III – Anitya Label: Rage In Eden – RAGE 74 Format: CD, Album Country: Poland Released: 22 Sep 2010 Style: Acoustic, Experimental, Neofolk
The Joy of Nature is a musical project from the Azores, navigating through folk, psychedelic and ambient music. The Joy of Nature creates musical innerscapes, paints with music and sound.
Anitya is that which has no existence in the beginning and no existence in the end. Its nature is impermanence. The record was created in two different and very special periods of time and it musically unites both western and eastern sounds. The tracks contained are the musical expression of different kinds of dreams. It consists of folk, experimental, psychedelic and industrial elements, and even classical music but sounding, at various places, like ritual music. The structures of the tracks owe as much to classical as to psychedelic music.
The Joy of Nature – “The Empty Circle, Part III ANITYA” digipack CD
The Joy Of Nature – The Empty Circle, Part I: Swirling Lands Of Disquiet And Catharsis Label: Ahnstern – Ahnstern31 Format: CD Country: Austria Released: May 2008 Style: Dark Ambient, Acoustic, Experimental
The Joy of Nature is a multimedia project from the Azores, with music as its main focus. Musically, “The Joy of Nature” is like a serpent always renewing itself – never resting in one shape, changing the form but keeping the same essence. “Swirling Lands of Disquiet and Catharsis” is the first part of a trilogy entitled “The Empty Circle”. Each part of the trilogy has a correspondence with the three main hermetic-alchemical phases: Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo and, at the same time and correspondingly, to individual experience, inheritance of our ancestors and, finally, the overcoming of a mere individual state of existence. This first part corresponds to Nigredo. The subtitle of this work – “A Theatre lost in The Vast Abyss of Starry Skies” came in a lucid dream in which appeared the idea that this world in which we live our day-to-day lives can be compared to a small theatre in a vast abyss of starry skies. This album is about a world of disquiet, in which a catharsis should be done. To gather the impurities, realize their nature and build something pure from there.
There are elements of Folk, Ambient, Psychedelic and Experimental music, mixed in a coherent way, creating a unique sound and a breathtaking atmosphere, predominantly acoustic and with dark tones.
Traclist: 1 A Theatre Lost In The Vast Abyss Of Starry Skies, Pt. I 8:08 2 The Womb, Pt. I 4:43 3 And Then The Clock Appeared 3:54 4 O Cíclico Retorno De Lobos E Ferreiros 5:06 5 Nemesis’s Factory Of Nightmares Beyond The Curtain 9:55 6 The Dew From Erased Days 3:49 7 In The Kingdom Of The Blind 3:40 8 Absinthe, Tea And The Memory Of Autumn Leaves Falling 4:33 9 Dissolving Memories Into Grey Skies 3:52 10 Invocando A Nobreza Para Desmanchar Feiticos 3:44 11 The Womb, Pt. II 4:58 12 A Theatre Lost In The Vast Abyss Of Starry Skies, Pt. II 5:28
The Dark Red Seed – Stands With Death Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 214 LP Format: Vinyl 12″ EP Country: Germany Released:14 Sep 2017 Style: Neofolk
The Dark Red Seed is the musical outlet of Tosten Larson, guitarist for Seattle dark folk musician King Dude. A self-coined ‘metaphor for the heart’, The Dark Red Seed represents a direct reference to life – and death – itself. The duo, which also includes King Dude engineer Shawn Flemming, is now about to release its debut EP, “The Dark Red Seed Stands with Death”.
Described as ‘a study of death’, “The Dark Red Seed Stands with Death” is a dark, dusty discourse on the departure and ultimate dissolution of life; a powerful expression of absolute loss shaped through Larson’s haunting, Cash-like delivery. Each of the EP’s three songs represents various aspects of death (the death of America, death of culture and death of reality through technology and globalization), drawing on deep feelings and unanswered questions to create living, breathing sound.
“I know when death comes for me I will most likely run away with blind fear,” Larson says. “I’m sure when death comes, I will almost certainly cling to life until my dying breath and pray to someone else’s god for salvation. But in life, I try to approach death as the ultimate acceptance. Whatever death and a possible life thereafter means to each individual, death is the only place where we might find answers. For in life there are only questions. Death is the one thing that awaits us all.”
Raised in Kalispell, Montana and currently based in Portland, Oregon, Tosten Larson began his classical instruction as a young boy sitting at his grandmother’s piano. Firmly rooted in the traditions of American music, Larson’s sound is equally shaped by art rock such as Swans and Six Organs of Admittance, Eastern masters like Kayan Kalhor and Ravi Shankar, and hard rock staples such as Led Zeppelin and Neil Young. Though he wears his influences on his sleeve, his music attempts to defy category and carve its own path.
The Dark Red Seed’s first full-length album, “Becomes Awake”, is already in the pipeline and tentatively scheduled for a summer 2018 release. The record is described as a detailed concept album that can be thought of as an answer or sequel to “Stands with Death”.
Edition: – Vinyl MLP
Tracklist: 1. The Antagonist 2. The Tragedy of Ålesund 3. The Master and the Slave
