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Dol Theeta is the second project of the "Electronica Art Metal" vision of composer Thanasis Lightbridge, and includes Kortessa (Vocals) and Dim (Guitars) members also in Dol Ammad.
Thanasis' vision of total artistic freedom in music involved blending sounds and feelings from extremely diverse music genres such as heavy metal, electronica and opera/classical. Having released 2 albums with Dol Ammad, Thanasis needed to create more sides of his music in order to fully materialize his musical freedom. (Thanasis: It was clear from my early experiments in sound that there are countless ways to express and evolve this vision. If the words "Electronica", "Art" and "Metal" were chemicals in test-tubes, I often feel like a crazy scientist locked in his illegal laboratory doing unorthodox mixings and tests. The results of the tests using these elements can sometimes be so diverse that it makes me feel like a kind of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde! Due to this fact I came to the conclusion that if I wanted to express my vision freely and in an unobstructed way, it would require more musical vehicles than just the one called Dol Ammad. That is why it has been about 2 years now that I have the feeling of Electronica Art Metal as a Pyramid! Or like a polyhedral dice! As I see things now there will be 3 projects including Dol Ammad and their names will share the word "Dol". These projects will be like a different side of the same coin. They will be interconnected but also very different at the same time.)
Thus Dol Theeta were born to express a more atmospheric and psychedelic version of "Electronica Art Metal".
Dol Theeta's discography starts in Spring 2008 with the single/mini CD "Goddess" which apart from the track "Goddess" taken from the upcoming full album, also includes 2 more exclusive/unreleased tracks and a video clip for "Goddess". The video clip is the first video released for Thanasis' music and is directed and produced by Harry Kalogirou. The video was fully constructed and created in the amazing open source software "Blender" but also includes video footage of the Dol Theeta members.
The upcoming full Dol theeta album is called "The Universe Expands" and is an innovative album, deep with emotions and meditative melodies. Thanasis Lightbridge focused more on dreamy and improvisational performances for the recordings in order to capture a more instant and artful expression from the participants. Dol Theeta also feature a lot of ethnic elements and instrumentation something new and exciting for Thanasis who apart from the various sounds and synthesizers, also performed the drums in the album.
The vocals of Dol Theeta are undertaken by soprano Kortessa whose truly artistic voice and unique singing abilities portray a variety of styles and emotions throughout the album.
Both "The Universe Expands" and "Goddess" feature stunning artwork from artist Werner Hornung and are released in a high quality digipack format.
What does "Dol Theeta" mean?
"Theeta" is a mutation of the word "Theta" which is the eight letter of the Greek alphabet. It is the letter written with a circle and a line within it. It is the first letter in Thanasis' name and also his birth city Thessaloniki in Greece. This letter and its symbol have amazing history behind it. "Dol" is chosen to create a uniformity between the "Electronica Art Metal" projects which are to be considered as one in the end. The two "e"s are there to match the two "m"s in "Ammad". (Thanasis: "Again, it's just a strange name that I like how it sounds! ;-P)
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