Ahasverus project is a one man act by Henrik Summanen, Sweden. Themain aim is to understand and explore the dark side of music.
Foundation - Ahasverus act III
This is the third manifestation of the Ahasverus act.
The wine which through the eyes we drink
Flows nightly from the moon in torrents,
And as a spring-tide overflows
The far and distant land.
The US edition (lim 100)of Foundation is released by Black Goat Records
And the European edition (lim 100) by Ahasverus Records
Title: Foundation - Ahasverus act III
Year of production: 2007
Type: Professional CDR, limited edition
1. Insomnia (4.07)
2. Oneirodynia (5.18)
3. Parasomnia I (6.12)
4. Sleep Paralysis (9.31)
5. Oneirataxia (7.06)
6. Parasomnia II (5.05)
7. Oneironosia (2.37)
8. Paroneiria (6.20)
Total: 46.53
When Dr. Ignazio Roiter found out that a woman in an italian family suddenly lost her ability to sleep completely, the established researchers didn..t believe him. The doctor found after a while that she was suffering from a very rare genetic disease that put the sleeping center in the brain out of use. The patients get more and more changed in personality, after half a year they are hard to communicate with, and after months they die. The gentic disease, called Fatal Familial Insomnia, has an inevitable end in death.
As the radio DJ Peter Tripp tried to place himself in the Guinness book of records for not sleeping for 200 hours, the research team that surveilled him noted that his brain went into dreaming mode – that is, it displayed the same visual energy distribution as when people normally are dreaming. But Peter Tripp wasn..t asleep, he was parttaking in the discussions at the table. Finally he actually made it into the Guinness book of records, but he also divorced his wife and lost his job because of changed personality.
Sleeping, and dreaming, are as these examples show necessary for us to remain unchanged as humans, and to live a social life. But what actually is happening on that other side is unreachable for the researchers. One of the most established methods to gain more knowledge about the mind is to study brain damages and psychologic disorders. But it is hard to see what the scholars can find out from this.
Maybe Ignazio Roiter and Peter Tripp would have agreed, that ultimatly the foundation for life is are the dreams, not the woken unlife. Those who have met Hecate in person can tell.
Discography:
the Destiny of Fabian Kazmierski (2006):
I call this an "interlude" because it doesn..t follow the main line of my Ahasverus recordings. This release on the Latvian netlabel Protoplazma is a soundscaping/neoclassical interpretation of a lost early 20th century, made through a documentary narrative.
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Evocation (2006):
This is a sister-work of Then is the number, produced parallel with partly the same material, but with oppositional methods. Where "Ten is the number" is structural, calculated and abstract, "Evocation" is sensitive, expressive and narrative.
Comes in digipak with hand made linen cover and 8 pages folder.
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Ten is the number (2006):
Six tracks in tribute of aspects of the self and the creative process. (CD-r, Ahasverus records)
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More info, mp3s and labelsets can befound at www.ahasverus.se/label
Don..t miss my neoclassical act Anabasis
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