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