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Nova Omnia mi je baaaas tesko razocarenje :/ Ne znam sta im je trebalo da iz odlicnog folk pagan benda predju u...experimentalni hippie bend. Ocajno. Tekstovi pogotovo znaju da dotaknu dno dna, posebno na intru i prvoj pesmi. A drugi deo albuma je tek dosadan, kao da im je umrkla macka na pola snimanja, pa su odlucili da jadikuju na ostatku pesama.

 

Svetla u tami: Jabberwocky, Saltatio Vita, Moon

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Wolf Love je vrhunski album!

Nešto oveko hrabro i zanimljivo nije se pojavilo dugo vremena.

Imao sam svoje sumnje i nisam bio uveren da če mi se ovo čudo svideti, ali evo već mesec dana ga ne vadim iz ušiju.

Koga je zapanjila sinteza repa i neo-folka, evo i ja se učlanjujem u tu grupu ljudi. Međutim, nije me zapanjila toliko sada nego kada sam čuo prvu verziju Dance Until We Die pre nekog vremena http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puyhaUlFO-Y. Dakle, nisam verovao, ali dopada mi se nešto u čemu ima repa, koji inače ne podnosim nikako. Kakav crossover su napravili, neverovatno :) Ko kaže da tekstovi ne valjaju, po mom mišljenju nije u pravu. Većina nije u pagan-folk fazonu, ali je izuzetno kvalitetna i razrađena. Uostalom, pročitajzr, ko želi a nije, saopštenje sa njihovog sajta:

 

 

WOLF LOVE comes with a free DVD inside of OMNIA recorded live on-stage during the Pagan night at Castlefest 2009 aswell as many extra features, "making of the cd" etc.

 

 

these are the songs and some background information

 

1:WAKE UP

as the title suggests, this piece is an atmospheric "opening Piece" (for theatres, concerts and albums) it speaks of taking hold of your own life, and the infinite possibilities available to us, if only we show the courage to take them in your hands. The lyrics contain quotes of the late great "modern wizard" Alistair Crowley.

 

2:DANCE UNTILL WE DIE

A very political and powerfull Rap-song , very dance up-beat, it has elements of trad-folk interwoven through the main rap-theme, creating a dialogue between the bardic style of the ancient musician and the poetical angry style of the modern (intelligent) rapper. the lyrics are fucking hard and extremely anti-establishment, anti-royalty, anti-corporate, anti-government but definately pro-life!a

 

3:JABBERWOCKY

The famous Poem "Jabberwocky" written by Lewis Carroll (from the "Alice in Wonderland" books) finally put to music as it should be ...

 

4:SALTATIO VITA

the only completely instrumental piece on this album. This wild dance melody was one of the first ever experiments of Steve Sic in making proto-Celtic (Gallo-Roman) music, as it could have been around the 1st century AD.

This "dance of life" evokes the wild revels of the Satyrs, dryads and nymphs of the ancient greek and roman world, as well as the extatic cult of Bacchus/Dionyssian rituals of the maenads.

 

5:TEACHERS*

*words and music: Leonard Cohen

Omnia's first ever cover! this is a beautifully dramatic and melancholy song by the great Bard and Poet Leonard Cohen, we rearranged the music a bit, but the vocals are all Leonard's ;-)

 

6:LOVE IN THE FOREST

This is an up-tempo happy song about feeling free, being naked and making love in nature ;-) a summersong with a very high singalong happy factor.

 

7:TOYS IN THE ATTIC

A song about madness, written during our very bad "idiot-managers- fucked-up-time" in 2009. It is filled with archaic english terms for "lunacy" and has a destinctive 18th century salon, film-music feel to it... (if this song was a movie it would be by Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp)

 

8:SHAMANIAC:

this is a deeply religious piece, it is a powerfull meditation to musically guide the listener's spirit into the bones of the earth wherein lies the beating heart of this world. All the different vocal styles used in this piece are forms of shamanic chanting from different cultures around the world (mongolian, scandinavian, native-american, siberian etc.) and all the recordings of this piece have been done at night while under the influence of large amounts of various psycho-active plants and fungi...this is living music.

 

9: SOLVEGGIO (GUESS WHO\'S BACH?)

A solo piece of pure Classical piano music played by Jenny on the beautifull 19th century "Pleyel" grand piano that we arranged to use during the making of this CD.

 

10:WHEEL OF TIME

A very moving ,sad song about growing old in a world which is constantly changing for the worst. The irreverant and suicidal madness of modern society, The loss of nature, the loss of youth, the loss of your one true love and the inevitable end of the journey to which we are all carried on the wheel of time which rolls on relentlessly... This is a song about excepting the facts of life and death, so that your heart may remain at peace even through the pain of loss.

Wheel of Time has been arranged around the most classic chord structure imaginable (for a musician) which gives this song a very melancholy and hauntingly beautifull melody which feels very "easy to understand" in it's flavour.

 

11:SISTER SUNSHINE

a very sparkly "hippie-style" folk-ballad very much in the style of "California dreaming" old time Simon and Garfunkel and other such feel-good stuff.

 

12:TARANIS JUPITER

this is a very agressive and loud religious piece dedicated to the various aspects and personifications of "the skygod" who controls the thunder and lightning.

The idea behind this song was sparked during a particularly violent autumnal thunderstorm one night on a High Hill rising from Italian countryside while rain lashed out and lightning was striking all around. It made an impression on Steve Sic because he was screaming to the gods to "bring it on!" while standing on a wet tin roof built over the ruins of an ancient etruscan temple at the time...

 

13:MOON

this piece is a love poem to the Moon in music and sound with "intuitive vocals" without words in a distinctly Persian style. It's built on the heavenly voice of the dubble stringed dulcimer accompanied by the mysterious rythms of arabian nights.

 

14:WOLFSONG

This is a poetic animal/human lovestory filled with dark eroticism and blood set to very dramatic music. It is built up like a musical piece with lots of vocal movements and cross over song-lines floating over strong Piano and warm strings. It also carries a strong flavour of Gothic-metal within it's gorefilled notes.

Wolfsong explores the idea of the original shamanic origins of the "Little red riding hood" fable. Where the wolf is a man/wolf (werewolf, vampire) crossover. A hybrid mythical creature existing on a plane somewhere between the Natural/animal world and the Un-natural human world hunting down his sacrificial victim.

a poor lost red-caped girl stumbles through a chilling winter forest of ice and snow to escape the ineviatble... This song also deals with the fact that the man/wolf's manic love is the desire for total possession through the act of devouring and that red-riding hood's loss of fear and final surrender to the love (and the teeth) of the wolf is to experience the ultimate psycho- sexual death trip...

 

15:CORNWALL

composed in the style of tradition "classic" Celtic folk ballads like "song for Ireland" etc. This is an autobiographical song about the great Celtic land with it's timeless ancient cliffs and lonely moorlands where Steve Sic grew up, and which has influenced his search for the original spiritual/nature religious roots of our culture.

 

16:SING FOR LOVE

the ending piece of the cd, again it's an autobiographical, intuitive poem which captures one moment in time... in a log cabin,in the snow, at night , in a deep dark forest where Jenny and Steve wrote most of this album. It is very precious to them because it was "written" real-time. ie: the words and the music made themselves up as they were playing them... thank the gods for portable recorders!

 

total time: 63:21min

all tracks written by Steve Sic and Jenny Evans van der Harten except where noted*

 

so....interested?

 

It will be on sale for the first time coming weekend!

See ya at Castlest! (or in the webshop ;-)

 

Greenthingz

Stenny

 

Wolf Love je vrhunski album!

Nešto oveko hrabro i zanimljivo nije se pojavilo dugo vremena.

Imao sam svoje sumnje i nisam bio uveren da če mi se ovo čudo svideti, ali evo već mesec dana ga ne vadim iz ušiju.

Koga je zapanjila sinteza repa i neo-folka, evo i ja se učlanjujem u tu grupu ljudi. Međutim, nije me zapanjila toliko sada nego kada sam čuo prvu verziju Dance Until We Die pre nekog vremena http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puyhaUlFO-Y. Dakle, nisam verovao, ali dopada mi se nešto u čemu ima repa, koji inače ne podnosim nikako. Kakav crossover su napravili, neverovatno :) Ko kaže da tekstovi ne valjaju, po mom mišljenju nije u pravu. Većina nije u pagan-folk fazonu, ali je izuzetno kvalitetna i razrađena. Uostalom, pročitajzr, ko želi a nije, saopštenje sa njihovog sajta:

 

 

WOLF LOVE comes with a free DVD inside of OMNIA recorded live on-stage during the Pagan night at Castlefest 2009 aswell as many extra features, "making of the cd" etc.

 

 

these are the songs and some background information

 

1:WAKE UP

as the title suggests, this piece is an atmospheric "opening Piece" (for theatres, concerts and albums) it speaks of taking hold of your own life, and the infinite possibilities available to us, if only we show the courage to take them in your hands. The lyrics contain quotes of the late great "modern wizard" Alistair Crowley.

 

2:DANCE UNTILL WE DIE

A very political and powerfull Rap-song , very dance up-beat, it has elements of trad-folk interwoven through the main rap-theme, creating a dialogue between the bardic style of the ancient musician and the poetical angry style of the modern (intelligent) rapper. the lyrics are fucking hard and extremely anti-establishment, anti-royalty, anti-corporate, anti-government but definately pro-life!a

 

3:JABBERWOCKY

The famous Poem "Jabberwocky" written by Lewis Carroll (from the "Alice in Wonderland" books) finally put to music as it should be ...

 

4:SALTATIO VITA

the only completely instrumental piece on this album. This wild dance melody was one of the first ever experiments of Steve Sic in making proto-Celtic (Gallo-Roman) music, as it could have been around the 1st century AD.

This "dance of life" evokes the wild revels of the Satyrs, dryads and nymphs of the ancient greek and roman world, as well as the extatic cult of Bacchus/Dionyssian rituals of the maenads.

 

5:TEACHERS*

*words and music: Leonard Cohen

Omnia's first ever cover! this is a beautifully dramatic and melancholy song by the great Bard and Poet Leonard Cohen, we rearranged the music a bit, but the vocals are all Leonard's ;-)

 

6:LOVE IN THE FOREST

This is an up-tempo happy song about feeling free, being naked and making love in nature ;-) a summersong with a very high singalong happy factor.

 

7:TOYS IN THE ATTIC

A song about madness, written during our very bad "idiot-managers- fucked-up-time" in 2009. It is filled with archaic english terms for "lunacy" and has a destinctive 18th century salon, film-music feel to it... (if this song was a movie it would be by Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp)

 

8:SHAMANIAC:

this is a deeply religious piece, it is a powerfull meditation to musically guide the listener's spirit into the bones of the earth wherein lies the beating heart of this world. All the different vocal styles used in this piece are forms of shamanic chanting from different cultures around the world (mongolian, scandinavian, native-american, siberian etc.) and all the recordings of this piece have been done at night while under the influence of large amounts of various psycho-active plants and fungi...this is living music.

 

9: SOLVEGGIO (GUESS WHO\'S BACH?)

A solo piece of pure Classical piano music played by Jenny on the beautifull 19th century "Pleyel" grand piano that we arranged to use during the making of this CD.

 

10:WHEEL OF TIME

A very moving ,sad song about growing old in a world which is constantly changing for the worst. The irreverant and suicidal madness of modern society, The loss of nature, the loss of youth, the loss of your one true love and the inevitable end of the journey to which we are all carried on the wheel of time which rolls on relentlessly... This is a song about excepting the facts of life and death, so that your heart may remain at peace even through the pain of loss.

Wheel of Time has been arranged around the most classic chord structure imaginable (for a musician) which gives this song a very melancholy and hauntingly beautifull melody which feels very "easy to understand" in it's flavour.

 

11:SISTER SUNSHINE

a very sparkly "hippie-style" folk-ballad very much in the style of "California dreaming" old time Simon and Garfunkel and other such feel-good stuff.

 

12:TARANIS JUPITER

this is a very agressive and loud religious piece dedicated to the various aspects and personifications of "the skygod" who controls the thunder and lightning.

The idea behind this song was sparked during a particularly violent autumnal thunderstorm one night on a High Hill rising from Italian countryside while rain lashed out and lightning was striking all around. It made an impression on Steve Sic because he was screaming to the gods to "bring it on!" while standing on a wet tin roof built over the ruins of an ancient etruscan temple at the time...

 

13:MOON

this piece is a love poem to the Moon in music and sound with "intuitive vocals" without words in a distinctly Persian style. It's built on the heavenly voice of the dubble stringed dulcimer accompanied by the mysterious rythms of arabian nights.

 

14:WOLFSONG

This is a poetic animal/human lovestory filled with dark eroticism and blood set to very dramatic music. It is built up like a musical piece with lots of vocal movements and cross over song-lines floating over strong Piano and warm strings. It also carries a strong flavour of Gothic-metal within it's gorefilled notes.

Wolfsong explores the idea of the original shamanic origins of the "Little red riding hood" fable. Where the wolf is a man/wolf (werewolf, vampire) crossover. A hybrid mythical creature existing on a plane somewhere between the Natural/animal world and the Un-natural human world hunting down his sacrificial victim.

a poor lost red-caped girl stumbles through a chilling winter forest of ice and snow to escape the ineviatble... This song also deals with the fact that the man/wolf's manic love is the desire for total possession through the act of devouring and that red-riding hood's loss of fear and final surrender to the love (and the teeth) of the wolf is to experience the ultimate psycho- sexual death trip...

 

15:CORNWALL

composed in the style of tradition "classic" Celtic folk ballads like "song for Ireland" etc. This is an autobiographical song about the great Celtic land with it's timeless ancient cliffs and lonely moorlands where Steve Sic grew up, and which has influenced his search for the original spiritual/nature religious roots of our culture.

 

16:SING FOR LOVE

the ending piece of the cd, again it's an autobiographical, intuitive poem which captures one moment in time... in a log cabin,in the snow, at night , in a deep dark forest where Jenny and Steve wrote most of this album. It is very precious to them because it was "written" real-time. ie: the words and the music made themselves up as they were playing them... thank the gods for portable recorders!

 

total time: 63:21min

all tracks written by Steve Sic and Jenny Evans van der Harten except where noted*

 

so....interested?

 

It will be on sale for the first time coming weekend!

See ya at Castlest! (or in the webshop ;-)

 

Greenthingz

Stenny

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