NOCTURNA VOX by TARKAMPA with Taube Landgrave

NOCTURNA VOX

This work is a musical journey into the night connecting us to ancient pagan figures that are still present in today word culture. Three different songs and a simple instrumental interlude that functions as a rest, are characterized by a common atmosphere that eludes historical and geographical identification. Indeed the Spanish language of the lyrics reveals a personal connection to Latin culture, and the first and last pieces are reinterpretations of two well known popular Mexican songs. But the Witch, the Dead Young Girl and the Weeping Woman are figures that represent tree aspects of the same feminine consciousness that is definitely cross-culture. The power of the magic, the transcendental death of the youngest, and finally the lament on a tomb represent all together the three aspects of this nocturnal sonic journey.

Taube Landgrave's soprano voice is, in a popular song context, somehow unexpected, and the tarkampian arrangement by Riccardo Massari, with the characteristic use of Tarcordium, percussion and electronica, is even augmenting the feeling of being in a Nowhere Land where different cultures meet for the first time. African rhythm and western music (the voice, the viola) melt with Hispanic culture and with the synthesizers, the youngest and cross-culture musical instruments. The frame drum, and the electric tablas, the dulcimer, the 12 string guitar and the mongol chant, all form a unified archaic and futurist sonic world. We are sure that you will enjoy this set of a more Word-Music oriented production (previous titles close to this style are Exodus or Jungle, but also some tracks of our first release A Cycle of Visions).

TARKAMPA is an alternative band/project/label, active since 2010 , founded by the Italian composer & musician Riccardo Massari Spiritini. The roots of this music may be found in the European Kraut Rock, ethnic music, in the latest alternative rock, in improvised music, electronic soundscapes, and finally even in Early Music, Contemporary Classical, and Radio Art.

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