Alter Vocalis Ego (AVE)

Music:

Member Since: 19/06/2007
Band Website: www.altervocalisego.de
Band Members:

"... those who wear the crown of ivy...
... those who wear their lovely garlands in a spirit of harmonious joy"

Contact:

altervocalisego(at)quantentunnel.de
www.altervocalisego.de

Influences: ... Agrios, Aigobolos, Aktaios, Anax Bakcheios, Anax Agreus, Antheus, Areion, Arretos, Arsenothelys, Bakcheios, Bakchos, Bassareus, Botryophoros, Boukeros, Bromios, Bythios, Charidotes, Choreutes, Chthonios, Dendrites, Dikerotes, Dimeter, Dissotokos, Ekstatophoros, Eleuthereus, Eribromios, Eriphos, Eubouleus, Euios, Gethosynos, Gigantophonos, Hagnos, Iatros, Kissobryos, Kissokomes, Kissos, Kryphios, Lampter, Lenaios, Limnaios, Lyaios, Lyseus, Mainomenos, Mantis, Meilichios, Melanaigis, Morychos, Nyktelios, Omadios, Palaios, Perikionios, Phanes, Polymorphos, Polyonomos, Protogonos, Skeptouchos, Soter, Sykites, Taurokeros Theos, Tauropon, Teletarches, Thyrsophoros, Trigonos, Zagreus, Zoophoros ...
Sounds Like:
"Dionysos transcends all forms and evades all definitions; he assumes all aspects without confining himself to any one. Like a conjurer, he plays with appearances and blurs the boundaries between the fantastic and the real. Ubiquitous, he is never to be found where he is but always here, there, and nowhere at the same time. As soon as he appears, the distinct categories and clear oppositions that give the world its coherence and rationality fade, merge, and pass from one to the other. He is at once both male and female. By suddenly appearing among men, he introduces the supernatural in the midst of the natural and unites heaven and earth. Young and old, wild and civilized, near and far, beyond and here-below are joined in him and by him."
(Jean-Pierre Vernant)

“Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems . . . that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I guessed to be the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet…
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil…
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
(F.W. Nietzsche)

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence - whether much that is glorious - whether all that is profound - does not spring from disease of thought - from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil."
(E.A. Poe)

"I hear and do strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exaltation instead of terror. I do not believe I need to wait for the full change as most have waited... Stupendous and unheard-of splendors await me below, and I shall seek them soon... We shall ... dive down through black abysses ... and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever."
(H.P. Lovecraft)

"We shall embark on that sea of Darkness / With the happy heart of a young traveller. / Do you hear these voices, alluring and funereal, / Singing: This way, those of you who long to eat / The perfumed lotus-leaf! ...
... Oh, this fire so burns our brains, we would / Dive to the depths of the gulf, Heaven or Hell, what matter? / If only to find in the depths of the Unknown the New!"
(Charles Baudelaire)

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned