• Distribution,  Vinyl

    Ataraxia ‎– Sueños (2 × Vinyl)

    julio 6, 2024

    Ataraxia ‎– Sueños (2 × Vinyl)
    Label: The Circle Music ‎– TCM003RED
    Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Gatefold, Red
    Country: Greece
    Released: 2021
    Style: Neofolk, Modern Classical

    The Circle Music proudly announces the release of Ataraxia’s “Suenos” for first time on LP. “Suenos” was released on CD in 2001 and now, 20 years later, we honor this magnificent album -one of the best albums that Ataraxia ever released- by releasing it in two different Luxurious Double Colored Gatefold LP editions, the first will be in red vinyl (Limited to 250 copies) and the second edition will be in blue vinyl (Limited to 250 copies). There will be new mastering and two bonus tracks, “Melisanda” & “Clytaemestra”, from “In Amoris Mortisque” split EP, that was published in 1995 together with Engelsstaub.

    “Suenos” will be the first step of a long walk that we intend to accomplish as a record company as far as the glorious past of Ataraxia is concerned. Our aim is to release their most important albums in vinyl, so leave enough space in your LP collection for Ataraxia, one of the most influential and long-lived bands that offer us their magical musical melodies for three whole decades.

    Ataraxia – “Suenos”

    Code: TCM003RED

    Release Date: 27.09.2021

    Format: Double Gatefold Red Colored LP (250 copies)

    Style: Neofolk, Medieval, Modern Classical

    Track-list:

    Side A – EGO PROMITTO DOMINO

    1) Parti de mal
    2) Saderaladon
    3) Belle Jolande
    4) Il Bagatto

    SIDE B – L’AME D’EAU

    1) Mon Ame Sorcière
    2) Eleven
    3) Mnemosine

    4) I Love Every Waving Thing

    SIDE C – SANDY DUNES

    1) Encrucijada
    2) Funeral In Datca
    3) The Corals Of Aqaba
    4) Nemrut Dagi

    SIDE D – IN AMORIS

    1) Clytaemestra

    2) Melisanda

    Musicians:

    Francesca Nicoli :
    vocals, flute, cymbal, bells

    Vittorio Vandelli:
    classical, acoustic and electric guitars, chitarra battente

    Giovanni Pagliari:
    keyboards, vocals

    (Guest in Suenos)

    Francesco Banchini
    clarinet, traverse flute, bodhran, vocals

    Statement from Ataraxia:

    Suenos
    2001-2021

    “Which were the dreams that, twenty years ago, brought us here and now? Which ones, those that, in twenty years in the future, will have drawn our present now and here? PARTI DE MAL, far from evil, a choral and decisive NO towards forces that keep us away from our dreams, then, to exorcise this time, we let ourselves free to dance a pagan dance called SADERALADON.

    We are in the presence of BELLE JOLANDE, quintessence of Venus, Goddess of harmony and love that we honor until we find ourselves catapulted to card 1 of the tarots, IL BAGATTO, the one who has all the tools to “start” a work but he’s not moving yet.

    We enter the second phase of the dream and journey, we get into the deep unconscious, the lucid dream, the feminine, the welcoming water.

    MON AME SORCIERE, right now the soul begins creating, she becomes a witch, a prophetess and initiates her subtle action through portal 11, ELEVEN, the number of the door in deep contact with memory, MNEMOSINE, Titaness-Goddess of memories who leads us to get in touch with all what is waving, I LOVE EVERY WAVING THING.
    We access the third phase, the masculine, the action of fire. Through sandy dunes, we reach a crossroad, ENCRUCIJADA, where does the dream lead us? To abandon all what is no longer useful, the burden of what denatures us physically, emotionally and spiritually (FUNERAL IN DATCA), we give it a worthy burial in order to access a sparkling, multicolored treasure (THE CORALS OF AQABA) allowing us to ascend to Mount Nemrut (NEMRUT DAGI) where we put the crown on our head, the return of the inner King, the quintessence, in dignity, beauty and love.
    IN AMOR, the fourth step, in love and for love.
    Lost love for the ones who did not have the courage to live it, to devote themselves to it, to open their own hearts as in the song CLYTAEMESTRA; and the glorious love embodied by MELISANDA, protagonist of the alchemical wedding, an iridescent soul dancing a round dance that rejoins the one of SADERALADON in a spiral that rises by an octave.
    We had the ardor to dream and the dream came true.
    The dream is all what has been, is and will be as time is only a dimension of space and each space travels parallel to another in a multidimensional matrix where everything is possible if we sing it.

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  • CD,  Distribution

    Ataraxia ‎– Prophetia

    marzo 29, 2018

    Ataraxia ‎– Prophetia
    Label: Infinite Fog Productions ‎– IF-71
    Format: 2 × CD, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Remastered
    Country: Russia
    Released: Oct 2017
    Style: Neofolk, Ethereal, Post-Punk

    /// SOLD OUT ///

    DE LUXE LIMITED EDITION – 2CD A5 Digibook including a huge number of pages with exclusive pictures of Mick Mercer and Norma Gombok + 2 exclusive photos sessions of ATARAXIA (dated 1990 and 2016), many writings.
    CD 1 features the original 9 tracks of PROPHETIA digitally mastered + 3 new songs (The garden of Cyrus, Dusky Daphne, Requiem) as bonus tracks.

    CD2 features a 1989 bootleg (live recording) with 6 exclusive songs (Teuflische Mosaikarbeit, Memphitis, Confiteor, Ono No Komachi, Die Suhne, Que no te sienta venir) released on CD exactly as they were.

    Note CD2 available only as a physical edition.

    The very first tape PROPHETIA (1990) released on CD by Infinite Fog Productions. To celebrate this album, in 2017 Ataraxia have recorded three exclusive tracks (written in 1989/1992) never released before. These old but new tracks keep the spirit of the 90ies with a nowadays feeling. Nicolas Ramain took care of the layout and design. Thanks Nick for the album cover as well! The picture is by Mick Mercer.

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  • Distribution

    Looking for Europe – The Neofolk Compendium

    marzo 14, 2016

    Various Artists – Looking for Europe – The Neofolk Compendium

    Label: Index Verlag
    Format: 4 × CD, Compilation, Reissue
    Country: Germany
    Released: 03 Aug 2007
    Style: Pop Rock, Modern Classical, Avantgarde, Neofolk, Minimal, Electro, Experimental 

    / / / SOLD OUT / / /

    Compilation released in tandem with the same-titled book

    In tandem with the book “Looking For Europe”, we released this 4-CD compilation featuring artists such as Scott Walker, Nico, Death In June, The Strawbs, Sol Invictus, Laibach, Test Department, Fire + Ice, Blood Axis, Genesis P. Orridge, Changes, Ordo Equitum Solis, Empyrium, Hagalaz’ Runedance, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, The Royal Family And The Poor feat. Peter Hook (New Order, Joy Division), Der Blutharsch, Allerseelen, Tenhi, Boyd Rice, Kirlian Camera, Paul Giovanni/Magnet, Orplid, Ataraxia, Ernte, SiebenPop Rock, Modern Classical, Avantgarde, Neofolk, Minimal, Electro, Experimental , and many more. 

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  • CD,  Distribution

    Ataraxia – Oil On Canvas Vol. 2

    marzo 9, 2016

    Ataraxia – Oil On Canvas Vol. 2

    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

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  • CD,  Distribution

    Paris Spleen

    abril 11, 2015

    Ataraxia – Paris Spleen
    Label: Twilight Records
    Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Digipak
    Country: Argentina
    Released: 2014
    Style: Acoustic, Experimental, Neofolk

    /// SOLD OUT ///

    ATARAXIA in “PARIS SPLEEN”, a crazy cabaret show! We are inspired by poetry, mainly the one that transforms the most turbid and tormented reality, the one of the wretches, the freaks, the buskers and the buffoons in a sort of lyrical revelation. We started exploring an historical period and environment that have always appealed to us : the ‘cabarets macabres’ and fun fairs of the beginning of the XXth century in Paris. And who, better than Baudelaire, has managed to portray that peculiar universe within his verses ? “The spleen of Paris” has been our guide and some of its lines have become the lyrics of our songs. Carrying out an accurate research about the ‘ghost cabarets’ that animated the nights of Boulevard de Clichy, we disappeared into a nocturnal environment both gloomy and sparkling of innatural colours, a distorted dimension where each mask, drama, jest and tear turned into a grotesque and amplified representation of life. Men, dogs, exotic perfumes, acrobats in decay, green-eyed enchantresses, cloud sellers, heavenly places come into existence behind the threadbare fabric of a torn curtain rather than on the unnailed planks of a worm-eaten stage. Identifying ourselves with the artists of that time, we have written a collection of songs that could have been played at the beginning of the xxth century in the Cabaret of Heaven rather than in the Tavern of Crooks. Thanks to the sound of bandonéons, musettes, trombones, violins, big-drums and cymbals and the dramatic and guttural voice of our singer, we have sung Baudelaire who, in his turn, had sung Paris of the imaginative and under-privileged artists of Montmartre. This music brings back to life the grotesque, bitter and irriverent words of “Le Spleen de Paris”.

    Recorded, mixed and engineered between November 2005 and August 2006.

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  • CD,  Distribution

    DUCASSE

    abril 7, 2015

    Ducasse
    Label: Stereoskop-Maldoror Records ‎– 8431905004589
    Format: 2 × CD, Compilation
    Country: Spain
    Released: 2002
    Style: Industrial, Experimental

    A tribute to Isidore Ducasse aka cont de Lautreaumont (1846-1870), the authour of a decadent cult novel “Les Chants De Maldoror» 

    The CD 1 include bands more dark folk, medieval and ritual oriented.
    The CD 2 include bands more industrial or electronic oriented.

    Chant 1:

    1-1 –Luna In Caelo Simple Mujer 5:11
    1-2 –Ostara Bavaria 4:45
    1-3 –Ataraxia Arcana Eco 4:58
    1-4 –Circe Je T’Envie Maldoror 3:14
    1-5 –Hekate  Erdenwandel 4:41
    1-6 –El Luto Del Rey Cuervo El Sastracillo 3:11
    1-7 –Ô Paradis Un Canto Más 4:10
    1-8 –Gor Fraternitas 4:46
    1-9 –Sieben Maldoror 4:19
    1-10 –Pfrenz-C Beautifully Grotesque 3:30
    1-11 –Oscar Martin Otra Absenta Sin Ti 4:28
    1-12 –Steven Severin Mal D’Aurore 2:14
    1-13 –In Gowan Ring On Bank Of The Silvery Brook 6:32
    1-14 –Kutna Hora Oratorium 5:21
    1-15 –Traje De Saliva –  Las Casas Malas 8:12

    Chant 2:

    2-1 –IPD Via Lisérgica 6:28
    2-2 –Fang Po 4:25
    2-3 –Morpheus  Beautiful Lover 4:49
    2-4 –Proyecto Mirage Agony 5:16
    2-5 –Not Delicious Aurore 6:21
    2-6 –Stereoskop Wake Up 5:22
    2-7 –Vadim Tudor Mande? (v.01) 3:24
    2-8 –HIV+ Burn Addict 5:34
    2-9 –Ripterm Maldoror: Chant 2 (Jivanmukti) 5:10
    2-10 –Plagiarism Is Art Conturbenio Y Tabla De Embutidos Ibéricos 4:10
    2-11 –Reutoff A Hair

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