The new album by The Joy of Nature – "aGkaanta, asRti, Parasamgate" – to commemorate the ten years of existence of The Joy of Nature/The Joy of Nature and Discipline (the first is only a continuation of the last, with a different and improved approach to music) is now available.
It has 21 tracks, totalling more than 73 minutes of music, including 14 new unreleased tracks (some of them based on old recordings), tracks from compilations (including some on new versions) and tracks from The Joy of Nature's side projects. The music ranges from all that we have done in the past to what we will be doing in the future. Some of the tracks can be listened at The Joy of Nature's myspace and site.
It's a limited edition of 100 originals, as each package and card inside is different. The outside package is made of wool, with a flower made out of fish flakes (local handicraft). You can see how the packages look like following this link - http://asrti-parasamgate.blogspot.com/. It comes with a card with an excerpt from a book carefully chosen with a dedication to each one who gets the album. The content of all the cards is published on the mentioned blog, and we invite each listener to leave there their comments about how they fell about the music and the words on the card, or just thoughts that arose through the music and/or the words.
We don't like our works to have high prices, but we think it's understandable that an edition like this has high costs. We're selling it at 25 euros. Soon after, there will be a release on mp3, through Woven Wheat Whispers, at a lower cost, possibly 6 GBP.
The first art of the trilogy "The Empty Circle", entitled "Swirling Lands of Disquiet and Catharsis" has been also released on CD by the label Ahnstern. Two of the tracks of this album can be listened at The Joy of Nature's myspace. Those who will attend the Wave Gotik Treffen festival at Leipzig can get now a copy of this album at the Steinklang stand. Later, we will have copies for sell.
Each part of the trilogy has a correspondence with the three main hermetic-alchemical phases: Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo and, at the same time and correspondingly, to individual experience, inheritance of our ancestors and, finally, the overcoming of a mere individual state of existence. This first part corresponds to Nigredo.
The subtitle of this work - "A Theatre lost in The Vast Abyss of Starry Skies" came in a lucid dream in which appeared the idea that this world in which we live our day-to-day lives can be compared to a small theatre in a vast abyss of starry skies.This album is about a world of disquiet, in which a catharsis should be done. To gather the impurities, realize their nature and build something pure from there.
The music follows the concept, so there are elements of folk, ambient, psychedelic and experimental music, mixed in a coherent way, creating a unique sound, predominantly acoustic and with dark tones.
We're clearing up our stock of The Joy of Nature's side-project Post Crash High, so we're selling the album of this project – "The apocalypse came yesterday and no one noticed" – for only 9 euros.
