Arditi (music project)
| Arditi | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Martial Industrial |
| founding | 2001 |
| Website | www.arditi.tk |
| Current occupation | |
Composition, programming |
Henry Möller, Mårten Björkman |
Arditi is a Swedish martial industrial project founded in 2001 that was named after the elite stormtroopers (German: 'die foolhardy') of the Italian army in World War I and the eponymous followers of the nationalist writer and volunteer corps leader Gabriele D'Annunzio . Participating musicians are Mårten Björkman , who comes from the black metal scene, and Henry Möller from the martial industrial / neoclassical project Puissance . Your recordings have been released by the Portuguese label Equilibrium Music since 2006 . The musical characteristics include the massive use of historical samples and extremely dark, militant sound compositions. There is no singing in the strict sense of the word; however, some songs are based on read or spoken word texts.
Content
Möller and Björkman themselves place their project in the tradition of Italian Futurism and its founder Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ; Allerseelen and Der Blutharsch are mentioned as early musical influences . From this line of tradition emerge the leitmotifs of Arditi's music, according to the Futurist Manifesto : glorification of danger and boldness, propagation of “ heroic realism ” and the creation of a bellicose atmosphere - thus a glorification of war as an extreme form of art.
In the cover of the album Omne Ensis Impera (German roughly: ' Rule everything with the sword') there is accordingly the following postulate:
“We sing the Praise of War. Not for the Way it makes People die, but for the Way it makes People come alive. "
To implement this artistic claim, Arditi songs use a large number of historical samples , for example from newsreels ( No More Shame ; The Attack Continues ; Victory Through Purpose ; Militant Fate ) or recordings of speeches by fascist leaders such as Corneliu Zelea Codreanu ( Legionaries ) and Benito Mussolini ( Sun of Predappio ). In some cases, recordings of speeches or excerpts from written works in English translation are also used, including by Carl von Clausewitz ( Military Virtue ), Ioannis Metaxas ( False Mask of Freedom ), BUF politician Arthur K. Chesterton ( Profound Truths ), Alfred Rosenberg ( Religion of the Blood - from The Myth of the 20th Century ) and Adolf Hitler ( Sons of God ; Bless our Arms - both titles contain passages from Mein Kampf ). Some songs also take samples zoom from television documentaries, so over the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler ( That Day of Infamy ) or the Swedish volunteer units in the Winter War of Finland against the Soviet Union ( Volunteers ). Own texts, mostly culturally pessimistic , are relatively seldom presented in spoken word style ( The Measures of Our Age , Plowshares into Swords , The Sinking Ship , The Absolute Essence ). The song Marching on to Victory is an alienated recording of the Prussian Gloria march .
This fixation on the content of war and totalitarian systems, paired with a consistently "cold, monumental imagery" of their publications, create an atmosphere typical of Arditi, perceived as immensely threatening and ominous, in which the ambivalent music leaves it to the listener to decide as a glorification of war or a warning implementation of the great conflicts of the 20th century: "It shows: the dark side of history, in particular the war, harbor a powerful fascination."
Working together
There are close contacts to the Swedish industrial musician Henrik “Nordvargr” Björkk , who is well known within the scene . Nordvargr not only contributed significantly to the album Omne Ensis Impera from 2008, but also participated in 2004 with his project Toroidh on the split album United in Blood .´
Another musical collaboration was with the well-known Swedish black metal band Marduk : The melody for the song Deathmarch from the Marduk album Plague Angel comes from Arditi, who used the title as an instrumental version without the vocal track of Marduk singer Mortuus on their album Standards of Triumph published again. The music for the title 1651 on Marduk's album Rom 5:12 comes from Arditi, as well as Warsaw III: Necropolis from the limited edition of the 2015 album Frontschwein .
Discography
- 2002: Unity of Blood (7 ″ - EP ; Svartvintras Productions)
- 2003: Marching on to Victory (Svartvintras Productions)
- 2003: To each his own (7 ″ - single ; Miriquidi Productions)
- 2004: United in Blood (split album with Toroidh ; Neuropa Records)
- 2005: Spirit of Sacrifice (Blooddawn Productions)
- 2006: Destiny of Iron (7 ″ single; Equilibrium Music)
- 2006: Standards of Triumph (Equilibrium Music)
- 2008: Omne Ensis Impera (Equilibrium Music)
- 2009: Statues of Gods / Invictis Victi Victuri (10 ″ split EP with Signa Inferre; Equilibrium Music)
- 2011: One Will (7 "single; Equilibrium Music)
- 2011: Leading the Iron Resistance (Equilibrium Music)
- 2014: Estate of the Forgotten / Templets Heliga Härd (Split-7 ″ with nuclear wing; Thule fortress)
- 2014: Imposing Elitism ( MC ; Temple of Death Productions)
- 2014: Pylons of the Adversary (split album with Acherontas, Puissance and Shibalba; WTC Productions)
- 2015: March for the Gods (7 "single; Neuropa Records)
- 2018: Bloodtheism ( demo via Bandcamp )
literature
- Niels Wegner: Heroic Realism. Martial industrial / military pop is on the rise . In: New Order , IV / 09, pp 34-36, neue-ordnung.at , accessed on June 9 2012th
Web links
- Official website
- Website of the label Equilibrium Music
- Arditi in Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with Mårten Björkman. In: Bellum Musicae Webzine ; accessed on February 16, 2015.
- ↑ “We sing the praises of war. Not for how he lets people die, but for how he lets people live. "(Translation from: Niels Wegner: Heroic Realism. Martial Industrial / Military Pop is on the rise . In: Neue Order IV / 09, p. 34- 36, here: p. 35. Online version of the article, accessed on June 9, 2012.)
- ↑ Meeting ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Spirit of Sacrifice at Metal1.info; Retrieved June 9, 2012.
- ↑ Niels Wegner: Heroic Realism. Martial industrial / military pop is on the rise . In: Neueordnung IV / 09, pp. 34–36, here: p. 35. Online version of the article, accessed on June 9, 2012.
- ↑ Review of the album ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: NecroWeb magazine; Retrieved June 9, 2012.
- ↑ Cover ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the United in Blood .
