All songs written and performed by Aleah (current guitar only for demo purposes).
Other musicians will be featured in the upcoming album arrangements.
Also check out my other projects
THAT WHICH REMAINS, (collaboration with with Andy Cousin from All About Eve/The Mission) and
TREES OF ETERNITY (collaboration with Juha Raivio from Swallow the Sun).
Etkilendikleri
Life & Death
Source & Creation
Light & Darkness
Pain & Bliss
Love & Heartbreak
Inner & Outer Worlds
Depths & Heights
Joy & Sorrow
Truth & Illusion
Will & Surrender
Beauty & Beast
Anima & Animus
Christ & Antichrist
The Goddess & God
Dualism & Monotheism...
Awakening
Grace.
Audio fix...
Metal, doom, funeral doom and some black/death. Gothic, Indie/shoegaze, dark ambient and anything melancholy, atmospheric, dark, deep and evocative...
Metal/rock: The Third and the Mortal, Shape of Despair, Swallow the Sun, Evoken, Ahab, Hypocrisy, Scepticism, My Dying Bride, Antimatter, Officium Triste, Novembers Doom, October Tide, Paradise Lost, Anathema, Satyricon, Bathory, Necrophobic, Trident, Tiamat, Bloodbath, Moonspell, Unanimated, Tool, Katatonia, Daylight Dies, Alice in Chains, A Perfect Circle and many others...
Indie/shoegaze: The Cure, Sigur Ros, Slowdive, Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins, Red House Painters, The Daysleepers, Ride, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Mew, Muse, Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Spiritualized etc.
Gothic/dark ambient/atmospheric: Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerrard, Elend, Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, Tiamat, Woven hand, Arcana, Rome, Type O Negative etc...
Other: Porcupine Tree, The Birthday Massacre, Ladytron, Massive Attack, Portishead, Kent, Placebo, Antony and the Johnsons, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith... And some dark progressive electronic dance music.
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Alchemy of the Heart and Soul, A Journey through Darkness to find the Light, Reaching Bliss through Surrender to Pain.
The Sweet Melancholy of Love and Disillusionment...
SPAMMERS ALERT: Please don't post adverts for your band/gigs/whatever to my message inbox!! It is slow enough as it is, and I WILL mark you as Spam. Sorry guys.
During the two years I have had this page up on myspace I have never had a bio or any information about myself here, apart from the occasional outburst in my blog/journal, so I figured it was about time for a slightly more formal introduction.
However, as I don’t have a long history of musical releases behind me to go into here, I will keep the tone more personal so that my listeners may glimpse at least a little more of the person behind the voice. This is perhaps not so much about what I have done in the past but who I am – how I see the world and the creative process.
Music:
My love of singing has been with me for as long as I can remember, and I wrote my first song when I was eight. It was about a dog, a horse and a rabbit who were going to have a party, and was written with the chords A, E and D, the only ones that I had learned to play on the guitar ;). Unfortunately I never kept up my guitar playing as singing was really the focus of my interest, or I might have been an excellent player by now..
But I did go on writing songs, and even if my focus on writing music has fluctuated through the years, it has always been an important refuge for me. In fact, I can without exaggerating say that the moments of delivery when a song takes form and comes through, are the peaks of my life and those moments of absolute fulfillment that make everything worthwhile. However, this cannot be forced by just writing superficial songs only for the sake of it. It only seems to happen when I manage to seek out some dark, unexpressed place inside myself, pinpoint it, put words on it, and deliver it into the light through the lyrics and melody that IT just naturally has. Often it is almost as if I am not really writing it, I am simply “downloading” the song in its entirety from the unmanifest plane. This may sound pretentious, but there truly are few words that can describe the feeling of bringing something into the world that did not exist before, something that comes from the deepest, truest parts of oneself. I am sure many artists out there know what I am talking about, and though I am not a parent, my guess is that they might too…
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
Who am I then, apart from music?
Well, of course there are many angles one could choose when describing a person. In my case one might be "I love animals", or, "I love spending time with my boyfriend, just watching Lost with my head on his chest" :). I could say I am ridiculously honest and I have regretted more than once that I can't keep my mouth shut when under the influence of strong emotions. And I could say that even though I sometimes love the pulse of the city, I can't take it for too long and need to be close to nature to survive. But the absolute essence and driving-force in my life is of a spiritual nature so to speak. You might call it “a pursuit for the greater truth behind existence”, a strife towards wholeness or the fulfillment of what I imagine to be my destiny. In this sense I tend to refer to myself a witch, as it, starting in my teenage years, has taken me through years of practice in different esoteric arts, soul-searching and the quest to find and uproot my demons. That is, the hidden corners of my consciousness where I am hiding from, blocking, hindering or lying to myself on some level. I must admit I have sometimes wished I was geared differently so that I could live an “ordinary” life where all that it takes to keep me ticking is good company and a nice cold beer ;), but we cannot be anything else but who we are I guess. And, in truth I don’t think any of us really want to be someone else than who we are, but rather, become who we truly are beyond the limitations of who we believe and allow ourselves to be. Perhaps this is the only “destiny” we have.
One fortunate bi-product of this sometimes painful journey called life is the need to channel it into something – in my case, my songs. Here we have another aspect of the creative process I mentioned above – the therapeutic one.
I used to wonder why I almost only write about life’s shadows, when one might think there is so much else worth expressing. But there is something about how the very act of putting words to these “shadows” pins them down and allows one to see more clearly, thus in a way eliminating them.
However, there is of course a slight difference between using songs as garbage cans and using them as a means to reflect upon, and make conscious, our darkness. I have on several occasions found myself with an untameable urge to write songs mirroring the games and two-faced behaviour of people who have hurt me, but these never make it past my note book, as once the emotional garbage is out and put on paper it becomes quite clear that this is simply two dirty mirrors reflecting one another and not something I wish to birth into the world or transmit to others. However, this is indeed a fine line to tread, because in the end, what is just emotional garbage and what is worth transmitting to others? Our whole perception of reality is ultimately just filtered through our own emotions, wounds, patterns and imprints, and were it not for these it seems there would be little to put words too at all. Or, perhaps we would just chant “AUM”… ;)
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
Pierwsze wydawnictwo STP-001 W kolaboracji z Beast of Prey
Sghor - " Le Grand Myste're" (Dark Ambient, 70 min) 2009 Limited to 100 PRO-CDR / Plast-dipack/STP-001
"Le Grand Mystere" to 70 minutowa płyta wydana w ograniczonym nakładzie.
"...Black, cold, the surrounding space. Without sound, without a bit of breath. Somewhere far away beyond the borders of the senses, outs of time, you can hear hopelessly long cries, sad, never-ending monotonous song of emptiness. Emptiness fills everything. Even hearts so far full of life now are dead. All overflows undescribed sorrow, starting off where everything was beginning. Amazing black, deep unlimited black. Darkness nothing more, there is no light. Far flare of perspective changes driven every day. The hours, days, months, years are irrelevant. Waiting gradually turned into the reluctance, the reluctance into sadness, sadness into pain. Far strenuous pain, of all colours of grey - the colour black. ..."
"...Czarna, zimna, otaczająca przestrzeń. Bez dźwięków, bez odrobiny tchnienia. Gdzieś daleko poza granicami zmysłów, poza granicami czasu, słychać długi rozpaczliwy krzyk, smutny, niekończący się monotonny śpiew pustki. Pustka wypełnia wszystko. Nawet dawne pełne życia serca są martwe. Wszystko przepełnia nieopisana żałoba, zaczynająca się tam gdzie wszystko miało początek.Niesamowita czerń, głęboka nieograniczona czerń. Ciemność to wszystko, nie ma światła. Daleki rozbłysk perspektywy zmiany napędzał każdy dzień. Godziny, dni, miesiące, lata, to bez znaczenia. Oczekiwanie stopniowo przeradzało się w niechęć, niechęć w smutek, a smutek w ból. Daleki męczący ból, o wszystkich kolorach szarości - kolorach czerni. ..."
They don't follow the fashion Latest trend, no reaction State of the world's affairs Seem indifferent, but really care Self-reliance what its all about Don't need it, you do without In the balance of the universe Doesn't matter could be worse ....."Exceptionally Cool".....
Have Yourself An Awesome Week My Friend! The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
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