Ataraxia (band)

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Ataraxia
Ataraxia during a live performance in Italy, 2006
Ataraxia during a live performance in Italy, 2006
General information
origin Modena , Italy
Genre (s) Dark wave , neoclassical , folklore
founding 1985
Website www.ataraxia.net
Current occupation
Francesca Nicoli
Synthesizer , acoustic guitar, vocals
 Vittorio Vandelli
Keyboard , harmonizing, vocals
 Giovanni Pagliari
Riccardo Spaggiari

Ataraxia is a neoclassical dark wave - band , which in November 1985 in Modena , Italy was founded.

history

In 1990 the band recorded their first demo Prophetia in their own production. The founding members were all high school students. Keyboardist Giovanni Pagliari worked in London and only joined in for the demo recording. After a few more songs, the musicians began to perform together. The band name refers to ataraxia , a kind of ideal of peace of mind in Epicurean philosophy. The members remained unchanged for a long time, in 2003 Riccardo Spaggiari joined them as percussionist. To date, the band has released over 20 albums in-house and on indie labels.

style

Ataraxia started out with post-punk and dark-wave sounds, while also doing a lot of early music . The style developed from elegiac-sacred waves to Neofolk . The band combines medieval mass chants and Gothic influences and draws on French minnesong. The texts are multilingual. The band joins Pagan-Folk and Ethno- Gothic and sees itself as a spiritual continuation of ancient Greek, Roman and Celtic cultures with a strong bond with nature.

Discography

  • Simphonia sine nomine (1994, Apollyon)
  • Ad perpetuam rei memoriam (1994, Apollyon)
  • La malédiction d'Ondine (1995, Energeia)
  • The Moon Sang on the April Chair (1995, Apollyon)
  • In amoris mortisque (1995, Apollyon, 10 ")
  • Il fantasma dell'opera (1996, avant-garde)
  • Concerto no.6: A Baroque Plaisanterie (1996, Apollyon)
  • Historiae (1998, Cold Meat Industry )
  • Orlando (1998, Prikosnovénie, Maxi-CD)
  • Os cavaleiros do templo - Live in Portugal (1998, symbiosis, live video and CD)
  • Lost Atlantis (1999, Cold Meat Industry)
  • Sueños (2001, Cold Meat Industry)
  • Mon seul désir (2002, Cold Meat Industry)
  • Des paroles blanches (2003, Arkadyss, download single)
  • Sapphire (2004, Cold Meat Industry)
  • Odos eis Ouranon (2005, Equilibrium Music)
  • Arcana Eco (2005, Ark Records, book and CD)
  • Paris Spleen with Madame Bistouri and Circuz KumP (2006, Cold Meat Industry)
  • Kremasta nera (2007, Ark Records)
  • Llyr (2010, Prikosnovénie)
  • Spasms (2013, CD Infinite Fog)
  • Wind at Mount Elo (2014, Ark Records)
  • Ena (2015)
  • Deep Blue Firmament (2016)
  • Synchronicity Embraced (2018)

Compilations

  • A Calliope… Collection (2001, Future Insights)
  • Sous le blanc rosier (2007, Shadowplay, Best of)
  • Oil on Canvas (2009, CD and book)
  • Oil on Canvas II (2015, Best of)

Web links

Commons : Ataraxia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Guiggiani Maila: ATARAXIA: tra musica e… magia! Brainstorming Magazine, October 17, 2016, accessed November 15, 2016 (Italian).
  2. ^ A b Andreas Diesel, Dieter Gerten: Looking for Europe: Neofolk and backgrounds . 2nd Edition. Index Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936878-02-8 , Ataraxia, p. 290-297 .
  3. ^ A b Jason Pitzl-Waters: The Darker Shade of Pagan: The Emergence of Goth . In: Donna Weston, Andy Bennett (Eds.): Pop Pagans. Paganism and Popular Music . Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-84465-646-2 , pp. 83 f .
  4. ↑ Andreas Ohle: Ataraxia. In: Dark Heart Magazine. Retrieved November 15, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Tom Schulte: Ataraxia: Sueños. In: Allmusic . Retrieved November 15, 2016 .