Karnnos

THE BEGINNING…
As I look at Karnnos history I see chance as a crucial factor to our development. I still remember being with A. Guerra on a hot night of Summer of 1998, talking about how tired we were of experimental music, and how we’d like to make simple, emotional music. I had finished Wolfskin’s “Campos de matança” and he was playing with Vento Aziago and we decided to make softer stuff, with guitar, voice and a general ambiental touch. Some months later we had recorded “a burial in flames”, our first tape as a duo, with the aid of D. Jolly (on sounds) and Fée Vert (voice on 2 tracks). Already with a trio, after knowing Belmil by chance when dividing a cab, we recorded the 2 tracks for the compilation “the nemeth” and started recording “Deatharch crann”. We invited N. Cruz to participate on that record, as I was trading some music and thoughts with him. And we ended up recording that record as a quartet.
THE TWIN BROTHERS…
“Deatharch crann”, released on 2000, was a semi-improvised exercise of the blend of folk and amb/exp soundscapes we’ve been growing since then, resting much on the writings of W.B. Yeats, especially on “Celtic twilight”, where he describes, with a passionate tone, the echoes of Celtic myths on Irish folklore. After the EP “Bearer of order, bringer of chaos”, where we explored different grounds to our music, “Dun scaith” was recorded. With a darker tone than “Deatharch crann”, this record has more emphasis on the amb/exp side of Karnnos, and somehow is the “night brother” of “Deatharch crann”. It took quite more time to record as the tracks were not so spontaneously created as before, being released on 2002. We had the contribution of Pura Dalem on voice and Helder ..o in that record.
UNDERCURRENTS AND LOST HORIZONS…
”Undercurrents and lost horizons” is our third record that took around 3 years to be done, already as a quintet, with the addition of J. Filipe on percussion. We’re all involved with other musical projects which sometimes leave little or none time to Karnnos! Although it always have a place on our hearts… “Undercurrents” is, in my view, our best record. It combines the folkish tracks with amb/exp soundscapes better than before, the recordings are better, and it brings a whole new dimension of sound and feelings to our music. Streching from the coldness of “Stone of destiny” to the simplicity of “The well of night”, it maintains a nostalgic and almost “epic” feature on our music, on tracks like “Womb of the forests”, “Where the gone return as wind”, “Outermost oak” or “Bound of fire”. “Burial passage mound” and “Seer vision” add a deeper ambiental touch to the record and the track title is probably the most odd and exquisite piece we delivered so far; it’s nearly 13 minutes range from the gentle Cocteau Twins like guitar to a psychedelic/ ambiental section before sinking down on the eeriness…
THE FUTURE…
After 2 years of laziness and pursuing other objectives (either inside and outside music) we’ll start the recordings to the next Karnnos record this year. The only thing I can say about it is that it will be an evolution on the kind of atmospheres presented on “Undercurrents”…
J.A.
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