Ataraxia (band)
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Ataraxia during a live performance in Italy, 2006 |
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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
- Official website
- Ataraxia on MusicBrainz (English)
- Ataraxia at Discogs (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Guiggiani Maila: ATARAXIA: tra musica e… magia! Brainstorming Magazine, October 17, 2016, accessed November 15, 2016 (Italian).
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Andreas Ohle: Ataraxia. In: Dark Heart Magazine. Retrieved November 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Tom Schulte: Ataraxia: Sueños. In: Allmusic . Retrieved November 15, 2016 .