Àrnica – Viejo Mundo Label: Percht Catalog#:Percht11 Format:CD, Digipak Style:Acoustic, Neofolk, Alpine Folk
The artist’s interests are deep rooted in the ancient Iberian culture and traditions. Their music is a mix of traditional Pyrenne Folk and heathen Battle and Hunting-songs. Their first fullength-album „Viejo Mundo“ is a tale narrated by an old man as his last legacy to a casual traveler. In a hut and near by fire the traveler will be the depositor of ancient knowledge about forgotten gods, wisdom of life, tradition and statements of war. All lyrics and singing is in spanish or catalan language. A wide range of instruments is used, on top of them accordion, guitars, drums and flutes. ÀRNICA creates wild and rural atmospheres, quite similar to their friends from STURMPERCHT, but just from the opposite part of the holy Alps.
Label: Twilight Records – TW 1.136 Format: CD, Compilation, Limited Edition Country: Argentina Released: 2015 Style: Neo-Classical, Neofolk, Ethereal, Folk
This is the “ OIL ON CANVAS VOLUME II ” with 5 unreleased tracks. The compilation include instead of a conver version for piano of Lucretia that will be included in Il Fantasma dell’Opera in the near future , Ataraxia thought to include a completely exclusive new song called SUBLIMATIO, + a few of the tracks already compiled on the original Oil on Canvas, + several new songs never compiled before especially belonging to the last productions of the band (Kremasta Nera, Llyr, Spasms, Wind at Mount Elo), so it will be a sort of going on of the previous compilation with a brand new vein…. the lay-out will be a slight variation of the first Oil On Canvas beuatiful pictures of Mick Mercer. The cd comes in a beautifull gloosy digipack , limited to 500 copies.
track list: 01 Sublimatio (exclusive) 02 Of Asphodel (from Saphir) 03 The bay is white in silent light (from Vittorio Vandelli’s solo album) 04 Donc, je dois etre morte (from Spasms) 05 Lunar Oceans (only in a previous cmpilation) 06 Rashan (exclusive for Oil On Canvas I) 07 Evnyssien (from Llyr) 08 Temenos (exclusive for Oil On Canvas I) 09 la Fame e la Danza (from Kremasta Nera) 10 Lost Cosmonaut (from Wind at Mount Elo) 11 May she become (only in a previous chinese compilation) 12 Whisper o’er the sea (from Vittorio Vandelli’s solo album)
Backing Vocals [Back Vocals] – Giovanni Pagliari (tracks: 12), Vittorio Vandelli (tracks: 8, 12) Drums [Acoustic and Electronic Drums] – Riccardo Spaggiari (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12) Engineer [Engineered], Mastered By [Mastered] – Vittorio Vandelli Flute – Francesca Nicoli (tracks: 11) Guitar [Guitars] – Vittorio Vandelli Keyboards – Vittorio Vandelli (tracks: 13) Keyboards, Piano – Giovanni Pagliari Layout, Artwork By – Nicolas Ramain Music By – Ataraxia Photography By [Photos By] – Mick Mercer Timpani – Vittorio Vandelli (tracks: 7) Vocals – Francesca Nicoli
J Orphic – Ad Astra Label: Twilight Records – TW1.137 Format: CD, Album Country: Italy Released: 01 Jan 2016 Style: Neo-Classical, Ambient, Experimental
J Orphic is a martial neoclassic act based in Milan. Basically the project is composed by Marco De Marco (all instruments, voice) and Lucija Hrvat (background voice and spoken words). The passion for the history of XX century, the red or black dictatorships move J Orphic to re create such atmosphere with its music.
