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This empire must cease to exist.
Find a way.
Make your trumpet resonate.
Shake the devils from its peaceful comfort.
Law of the land will eat their god.

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Black Sun Productions And Val Denham - Somewhere Between Desire And Despair - 04-Sep-09 04:27 PM
The poignant fleshy smell from cabaret charged with the intoxicated nebulous contours of the green elixir where the fairie of all extasis live serve as the platform for a faun to spread a satyrical diatribe that will leave not a taboo untouched and no phallic figure secure of its dominance.

Rarity is not the word with this record, it is more probably madness, but a sharpened one, the kind that amuses and inspires but at the same time brings the prudence of danger; All while the poetry and the intelligent mologues come in. There is always an impending feel of uneasiness and molestation around, of a high intoxication. A cabaret with a transvestite singing lullabies for the end of times and the beginning of new one. Or perhaps dismal tunes for the exhausted. Or even replies to the sinister and mostly insane world outside this place.

And the music is half way the one made for a wake with an absent dead and other half celebrating a sodomy as a tonic ritual.
Drinks are served cold. Intoxication runs free.
And Perversity is a merely word to justify an abstinence that will increase coming of a messianic orgasm. Twisted record, tasty, cult, but not for the sexually insecure.

Nocturne (2) - 13-Jun-09 06:33 AM
Since 1995 Saphi has been behind the project Nocturne. Its first concerns for the music creation and conceptualization have been: Collective memory, guilt, as well as the notion of choice and free will. Those questions and preoccupations have also been raised by the association on Artschock of which Nocturne represents the sonic image.

2003 Has been a decisive year for Nocturne with the construction of Doctor Mabuse, a short story that was written in the twenties by Norbert Jacques and adapted as a movie by Fritz Lang. A musical illustration of this film is set out with a project untitled "Terrorize- Manipulate- Convince", released as an album in 2006 by the label Old Europa Cafe. The reflection goes on and the new way heralds then some works which are to be more peculiar and intimate.

The end of 2005 marks another a great encounter, with Cécile. As a musician with a classical background, she is invited to play, and then to join the project Nocturne. The acoustic dimension (violin-trumpet) brings another kind of profundity to Nocturne. On stage, they form a disconcerting pair, secured in their vocation for Artshock.

A concert by Nocturne is at once made of mystery, schemes, and secret. An impression of underlying hesitation and uncertainty gradually arises. As the music begins the veil lifts progressively, the sonic elements come to form, discretely drawing an atmosphere before the wholeness suddenly appears and reveals a skilful music display. Various emotions travel down the surprised audience. The arpeggios, notes and rhythmic combinations grant strange ways for the compositions. The texts are tempered chronicles, frames of mind and inner ways which are delivered uncompromisingly. Those numerous synths and home-made machines make of those installations a curiosity that contributes to the show.
This is a Total happening experience. Like Mabuse is the man behind the curtain, Saphi is the man behind his machines. He slowly gets off them and the transfer is proceeding before our eyes. He's deeply and personally involved, his attitudes evolve and his expressions change and alter contributing a genuine performance.

Nocturne set casts on the audience a powerful analogic alchemy, putting the audience into what Saphi calls Brutal Disko Music. A concert by Nocturne is a real show. Numerous performances in France and abroad has been considered in this regard.

The project Nocturne is currently developed at the Atelier de Création Expérimentale.

Nocturne (2) - Terroriser-Manipuler-Convaincre - 11-Mar-09 04:44 PM
Terror.
That extreme tonality of fear, armored in the annihilation of reason and the seduction from insanity, a biological defense that subtly directed from a third could block all individualistic intentions from the will. Terror is the base of modern power as much as force its primordial requirement.
Terrorize then manipulate then convince, all the factors can be exchanged but the result will always be the same.

Power.
Nocturne's opus Terroriser-Manipuler-Convaincre is a conceptual deal on Terror & Power understood from a Machiavellian perspective with a subtle introduction: "the means are the ends in theirselves". Basically to control the mass is to gain power, but above all that, power is the pleasure to destroy, to command at will and to manipulate all the way, from all these come the unlimited ammount of force given to one individual or one corporation whichever this may be. Dr Mabuse the antihero exposed in this aural quest has become the hero from our times, a man (or a beast) that loves to destroy people in all the ways he can, emotionally, psychologically and off course, physically.
The music could easily be juxtaposed as a soundtrack for the Fritz Lang version on Dr Mabuse as it match perfectly with the mood and cadence as well as the concept tuned in the score. The DVD included that contains a collage of image frames taken from the movie is a perfect example on this. Terrorizing through an amalgamation of insane Dark ambient textures and obfuscating drone layers, cascades of old school industrial noise and violent pulsations the listener slowly slips in a world commanded by the logic of fear and the moral superiority given to the masters of this logic. Mysterious and obscured in the realm of perversity one is able to descend and find out that there is no scales in the pit represented in this inferno and that there is no secure bottom line in the depth of the abyss. Evil is not clichéd representation in here, its a serious threat with morphing shape as the music itself is, progressive, showing its deceiving nature, perhaps just as the politics of our world are as well as the leaders representing them.This is philosophy made music in a very profound and subversive way. Excellent score, very cinematic and vivid.

The conspiration is not lead by others, it is lead by ourselves, the conspiration from the silence product of our ignorance our unnatural comfort and our perennial indifference. One hundred Dr Mabuse's govern our lives and they gain the bet from the conspiracy from our silence.

Arditi - Omne Ensis Impera - 03-Mar-09 07:16 AM
This soundtrack divides my criteria. On one hand i enjoy some of the melodies inside, they are well done, perhaps the most mature attempt from the band at some point but nevertheless maniacly repetitive as usual in their work.

On the other hand i find it totally insincere, hypocrite, merely rhethorical and product of a deluded psychotical mind. There is clear indications on the undercurrents behind its creators that were supposedly inspired in the Futurist movement. A movement that basically supported action instead of reason (one of the premises that later will found a niche in the fascist movement). Besides the futurist movement would appeal to reactionary values such as misogyny, machism, chauvinism and the only real modern topic that will constitute the core of their manifesto will be the love for the machine instead of living things... basically a complete and utterly dehumanization of the self. In psychology the sum of all these characteristics show the profile of psychotic necrophile and thats exactly where this music remits and reflects. Deliriums of grandeur and dreams of gigantic aesthetics, the glory of death and the insensibility of the spirit. A cold and pompous world full of machines and cold big buildings while eternal fanfares dedicated to the god of death and killing resonate.

I bring a quote from the cd:"We sing the praise of war. Not for the way it makes people die, but for the way it makes people come alive."
I wonder how many years mr Möller and Björkman have dedicated to serve the army or in how many wars they have been? Or if they think about the fact that if their sentence could be true and not a falacy as it is, then why the world is not a more clever and aware place as product of the common dairy wars we live inmersed into since the XX century? If that sentence would be true i think the US alone would be the most clever and fully realized country in the world! and Europe as result of the WW2 would be distilling glory and realization too...
But they are not. Basically because war may awake some few individuals but kills and goes mad the rest. War has brought only nihilism and dehumanization to the world. Is it hygienic at least as futurists proclaimed? Seems like is quite the contrary as most people that comes back arrive impaired physically or psychologically, unable to live normal lives anymore. Only the volk dies in the wars, the politic malaise and the corruption always survives.

So basically these pair of swedes preach about something they doesn't have a clue about it, while remain living comfortably numb in their land where no war can touch their delicate burgueois skin.
Good martial soundtrack though but no one can take seriously to an insincere, hypocrite and delirious pair like these.
Practice what you preach.

Triarii - Muse In Arms - 20-Feb-09 08:31 AM
Martial industrial is dead. You can test it now, check any game your little brother may have about warfare or war quests and then listen to the soundtrack, then you'll find your martial industrial neoclassical parade there, similar if not exact copy from material like this. You can make an additional test, check any Hollywood movie on typical heroic fashion, war related piece and you'll find another example on people doing the same thing. Muse in arms could be the sophomore music title for a game or a movie full of atonishing effects and the story of a hero that doesnt even disarrange his hair while combatting with hordes from barbaric "black" monsters wanting to ruin his homeland.
Martial industrial died from a disease called stagnation. This disease is often associated with something called traditionalism. Traditionalism leads to clichés and stereotyped notions, traditionalism avoids new grounds and discoverments thus refuse the vital symptom that nature calls for all living things, development.
I don't want to hear another soundtrack with the same thematic and sound. Something that i could find on the telly or the artificial worlds created by games. Martial industrial is dead.

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