CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Lebensessenz
Album....: Terra Nullis - A Tribute to Antarctica
Label....: De Profundis Prods
Size.....: 46,2 MB
Source...: CDDA
Playtime.: 66:20 min
Genre....: Ambient
Release..: Aug-24-2008
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: VBRkbps 44,1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
01 06:04 Glacial Horizon
02 08:29 The Ice Beyond the Ice, the Coldness Beyond the Cold
03 13:23 The Oblivion at the Antarctic Material and Spiri
04 21:37 Terra Nullis
05 16:47 Eismeer
Release Notes:
Firstly released in tape and cdr by Gungnir Productions.
Second edition released by the Ukranian label De Profundis Prods
The first work using a piano;
This work was recorded using a video camera into the piano;
Composed and recorded in 2 nights, except the 5th track, which was
added as a bonus to the new versions. The first version, released
on tape with few copies distributed, had a poor layout and nothing
as bonus;
Terra nullis means something like "land of no one", in latin, like
a reflection of the situations of Antarctica imposed by the
globalization. The land should be of no one, but in the same time
respected by everyone.;
The first edition was released on tape, and later was released by
Gungnir on cdr, incluiding a bonus track;
The last song is not piano music, but some kind of progressive
ambient, like Tangerine Dream or maybe Vinterriket on the times
of "und die nacht...";
This work was recorded under the musical inspiration of Noctivago,
in the times when I was moved my many emotional troubles, drinking
a lot and using a lot of antidepressive pills;
The idea of the second track was completly changed when the recording
started: was to be a cover of the german band Regnum, but only as
piano, but the music started with wrong melodies, so everything of
this music was composed and recorded in the same time;
The 4th track was recorded between 6 and 7am of a monday and you
can hear between 21:35 and 21:40 a truck on the street;
The last track was composed and recorded in the same time, using a
borrowed keyboard, under the influence of Vinterriket and Ildjarn;
Terra Nullis wanna be an hypnotic journey through of the imaginary
cold lands of Antarctica, through a primitive and melancholic
neoclassical piano music with slow and repetitive melodies, like a
transcedental minimalism. Reflexions about this dying land which is
going to be a myth. Frost now becomes as water, and the humans will
die swimming in their own poor objectives, dying by the natural
revenge of the mother nature.
http://www.myspace.com/lebensessenz