(video copyrighted,Chris Menta 2005).
(video copyrighted,Chris Menta 2005).
music until I fall asleep : recordings,playing several kind of musics and instruments,the Realm of Magic-lot of hours searching new ways through rituals and writings , Reading, sex and scenarios, cooking, Aesthetic which is something very important to me, Symbolism, alchemy, the night's world, Architecture like Old and lost covens for example,observing the herd like an alien, this is definitely my natural way to be.
Beethoven, Paganini, Berlioz,Christian Death ( with Rozz Williams) and Shadow Project,joy division, bauhaus, BLACK SABBATH and OZZY , Dio (with black sabbath too), Jane's Addiction, Summoning, Satyricon,Dodheimsgard, Setherial,Darkthrone,Absurdum, Burzum, Emperor, Mayhem, old Bathory and later with its viking metal, Diamanda Gala, Faith no more, Godflesh, Neurosis, the Cramps, King Diamond ,Morbid angel, Coroner, Motorhead, NIN, Celtic Frost, Frank Zappa, Wongraven, Dead Can Dance,Some Psycho billy bands , Saint Vitus, Cathedral, Type o Negative, Rammstein, ministry, Lard, Dead Kennedys, Death in June, Billy holliday, Peter Gabriel, Paco De Lucia,Arcturus, Motorhead,Wumpscut,different Industrial music,and so many other ones...
The important for me is the vibe, what a sound could bring inside, the "music behind the music". it has to be VOoODOoO !!! Because I love old blues, I often play slide guitar, a very deep way of expression..... Anyone could bring me to the CrossRoad? ....Have to deal... heh !David Lynch, a lot of old french and american black and white movies.... Jean cocteau....Well too much..
........Is it a new fashion? Band? ....God?? No, I don't know what it is.
Anton LaVey :The Satanic Bible,The satanic Rituals, Secret life of a Satanist,The Satanic Witch. Schopenhauer :aesthetic and metaphysic. The EDDA, Julius Evola, Sophocle and Euripide, Books about the principle of Alchemy, Vikings Mithology and egyptians, a lot of different occult books and all that is linked to the symbolism, Louis Ferdinand Céline "Voyage au bout de la nuit" ( this book is an absolute must, forever ), The lord of the rings, Nietzsche, Legend about the king Arthur, Stephen king, Marquis de Sade, an EXCELLENT book : the Joseph Goebbels diary 1943-1945, Indo european culture, Lords of Chaos, Maupassant, Emile Zola, The book of the runes by Zoltan Szabo,Lovecraft, Ayn rand.
Ferdinand Bardamu