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Anemone Tube \u200e\u2013 The Three Worlds – Vanity Of Allegory<\/strong>
Label: The Epicurean \u200e\u2013 cure.19, La Esencia \u200e\u2013 LER020\/2017
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 23 Oct 2017
Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Industrial<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far reaching pleasures will be at hand \u2013 Anemone Tube reveals a series of three CDs entitled \u201cThe Three Worlds: Allegory of Vanity \/ Forget Heaven \/ Vanity of Allegory\u201d, referencing a cosmological treatise on the universe from the Theravada Buddhism of the 14th century, the subject matter of which is the description of three levels of existence of all beings and mythical creatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This extensive retrospective release contains selected tracks from various tapes released between 1997 and 1999 – mostly rare and unavailable today – as well as yet unreleased tracks recorded between 1997 and 2013, a.o. outtakes from the \u201cDeath Over China\u201d recordings, handpicked and recontextualized by Anemone Tube, representing the project\u2019s roughest and most atmospheric material up to date, ranging from depressive ritual experimental ambient over dark rhythmic industrial soundscapes to whirlwind noise. Sharply mastered by Hunter Barr for a powerful, contemporary sound, each CD comes in a 6-panel digifile featuring beautiful photography by Dario Lehner and is available as single CD as well as a limited edition 3 CD set in a lavish slipcase with poster, sticker and patch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Three Worlds\u201d is a work about transience on many levels, perfectly elucidated in the Buddhist Sutra \u201cFar Reaching Pleasures\u201d, \u201cThe three worlds are transient like clouds in autumn \/ Birth and death of all beings unfold like a dance \/ Their lives rush away like a mountain stream \/ Vanish like lightning in the sky\u201d, which serves as the contextual framework for the CD series and is translated in the most beautiful and poetic fashion with three painstakingly arranged photographic scenes based on vanitas symbolism of old masters\u2019 paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The object photograph \u201cVanity of Allegory\u201d plays with the dissolution of all phenomena, the transience of all things, all allegories, featuring an extinguished candle, jewellery \u2013 and the artist himself, vacuously pointing his finger a skull laughing at the spectator from the mirror. All that is combined with poetry suggesting the dissolution of the ego, seemingly closing the circle. Besides collected tracks from old and recent cassette releases and compilations, this also features three unreleased tracks from the \u201cDeath Over China\u201d recordings and therefore represents the newest cut from the trilogy and thus musically bridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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