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"Die Menschheit ist durch und durch schlecht, die alte Mutter Erde steht am Abgrund und es wird nicht mehr lange dauern, bis das ganze verderbte Menschengeschlecht die wohlverdiente Fahrt zur Hölle an(...)"
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Vittorio Vandelli
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"A Day of Warm Rain in Heaven" Digipak CD 2004, Equilibrium Music |
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Vittorio Vandelli has been working as Ataraxia's guitarist and leading composer for the last decade and, along with his colleagues, has brought the medieval and neoclassical genres to life, assuming the leading role within this musical scope.
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' Alone, alone on a
wide wide sea! and never a saint took pity on my soul
in agony.
I looked to heaven and tried to pray but or even a prayer
had gusht,
a wicked whisper came and made my heart as dry as dust.
Since then, at an uncertain hour, that agony returns
and till my ghastly tale is told,
this heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from
land to land,
I have strange power of speech,
that moment that his face I see to him my tale I teach.
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S.T. Coleridge
Vittorio Vandelli,
founding member of the well-known band Ataraxia,
is a talented guitarist and composer. His first soloist
album, 'A Day of Warm Rain in Heaven',
transposes into music the poetical imaginary of 'The
rhyme of the ancient mariner', the romantic
opus of S.T. Coleridge. The music presents
a contemporary style but the words belong to the first
half of the XIXth century. The rhyme describes the perillous
voyage of a sailorman becoming an odissey through sin,
death and re-birth until the achievement of wisdom,
a status closely related to pain and sadness as we become
aware of our tragic human condition. The trip of the
protagonist reflects Vittorio's existential
experience, a deep spiritual experience that each of
us could be called to live. The ability to sublimate
all of this into music seems to be the only way to fight
the tempest and survive the storming sea, and it is
a precious gift that destiny has awarded only to artists.
In this album, the music is
ravishing and varied, yet a sense of unity prevails:
ambient tunes (where classic guitar arpeggios meet environmental
sounds) alternate with timeless ballads; short industrial
moments precede ethereal compositions; soft-electronic
episodes follow hypnotic lullabies and atmospheric instrumental
airs introduce moving sonatas in his unique style. Vittorio
plays classic, acoustic, electric and synth guitars
together with keyboard pads and rhytmical patterns.
He felt the urge to follow the creative processus from
the beginning to the end starting from the musical idea,
passing through execution and finally reaching recording
and mixing.
'A Day of
Warm Rain in Heaven' features Francesca
Nicoli on vocals, who, thanks to her peculiar
talent and artistic personality, has been able to confer
even more pathos and strenght to the textures of notes.
Her vocal work is the result of a sudden enlightenment
after the very first listening of the tracks.
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- tracklist -
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01. Farewell farewell, thou Wedding-Guest
02. Beneath the lighting and the moon
03. My heart as dry as dust
04. The ocean green
05. A sadder and a wiser man
06. The bay is white in silent light
07. The curse in a dead man's eye
08. A day of warm rain in heaven
09. Whispers o'er the sea
10. The death-fire danced at night
11. I killed the albatross
12. For the sky and the sea and the sea and the sky
13. The moment I could pray
14. Singeth a quiet tune
15. Sails in the sun
last update: 2004-11-25
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