Teatro Grotesco - "Kroni's Empire"

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Está disponível a partir de hoje o novo trabalho de Teatro Grotesco intitulado “Kroni’s Empire”.
Com edição a cargo da New Approach Records, este novo trabalho é apresentado numa edição em Cdr pintado à mão embalado num Digifile e limitado a 50 exemplares.



http://newapproachrecords.wordpress.com

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Uma música para audição no blog http://newapproachrecords.wordpress.com

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TEATRO GROTESCO - KRONI'S EMPIRE (CDR by New Approach Records)
Theatro Grotesco is a multimedia project, with music as its main focus. The band started in 2009 as a counterpart of The Joy of Nature. The band released already three other albums. Kroni's Empire is released at the Portuguese label New Approach Records. The music has it?s roots in the industrial music from the seventies and eighties. The musicians combine industrial beats on metal and drums, with distorted guitar, loops of voices, samples of a choir and abstract ambient sounds. The atmospheres of the tracks are different, but always based on a dark ambient ground with a ritual concept. The albums starts with music like Middle Age classic melodies and instruments. Some tracks are like post-rock bands, with pulsing guitar riffs and ongoing drums. Anyhow - Teatro Grotesco leads you to different musical atmospheres and they play these different styles well. The artwork is also well done. Minimal photographs fits well to the soft and dark atmosphere of the album. Teatro Grotesco knows the classics of industrial music and they know how to play in another fresh way. Great album! (JKH)

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Nova review por http://lurkersrealm.blogspot.pt

Depois de uma pausa que pareceu longa mas de facto foi mais curta do que necessário, nada como regressar com um belo disco de um amigo. Infelizmente neste caso é também um disco que encerra o capítulo Teatro Grotesco na discografia do Luís Couto, mas também na música se aplica o ciclo natural de tudo o que vive - do qual a morte faz parte.

Assim "Kroni's Empire" fica para a história como o último disco de Teatro Grotesco, e é lançado com selo New Approach Records numa edição limitada a 50 cópias, em CDr, com embalagem feita à mão e CDr pintado também à mão. Uma edição como gostamos aqui deste lado, portanto.

A nível sonoro temos aqui uma combinação de elementos acústicos, eléctricos e electrónicos, para criar um registo mais energético do que o passado do projecto, muito para além do simples Dark Ambient. O disco foi composto ao longo de 2009 e 2010, e conceptualmente continua a explorar temáticas relacionadas com tudo o que não gostamos no mundo que nos rodeia. E há muito para falar neste assunto...

O alinhamento completo é o seguinte:

1.The Erosion Of The Spirit
2.Noise And Progress / Silence And Tradition
3.You Can Only Fight Horror In The Heart Of Horror
4.Slavery Was Never So Widely Spread
5.From Shamanism To Witchcraft
6.Maya
7.Signs Of The Times
8.The Real Dark Age
9.Materia Stigmata Quantitate
10.Children Staring At Lucifer's Strange Dreams
11.Psychic Residues
12.Requiem Nr. I: At The House Of The Dead
13.Requiem Nr. II: Everything Is Flowing

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Teatro Grotesco na Aural Apocalypse

PODCAST:
http://auralapocalypse.podomatic.com/en ... 3_39-07_00

PERMANENT DOWNLOAD/STREAMING LINK:
http://archive.org/details/AuralApocalypseApril4th2012

Triarii: Emperor of the Sun
Kriegsfall-U: Beat the Beast!
Hrossharsgrani: Architect of Fear
Das Brandopfer: Alle Kamaraden
Strydwolf: Auferstehung
Allerseelen: Ob Auch Mein Herz So Funkelt
Changes: The Oak Trees
Krepulec: Myśl O Przyszłości
Old Forgotten Lands: Old Forgotten Lands
Alio Die: Peel Away This Mortal Coil
Teatro Grotesco: The Erosion of the Spirit
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Lost & Losing
Second Planet: Darkness
Erntegang: Sword of Reason
Langemarck: Sunday Morning
Stroszek: Self Closure


AURAL APOCALYPSE
Featuring:
Dark Ambient, Neo-Folk, Militant, Noise, Neo-Classical, Medieval music and more
with DJ Merrick

http://www.auralapocalypse.wordpress.com

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/auralapocalypse

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http://heathenharvest.org/2012/09/16/te ... nis-empire

Review a Teatro Grotesco na Heathen Harvest, 4.5/5:
"It’s hard to imagine the world of dark ambient growing to incorporate many more elements than it already has — it does, in fact, seem at the moment that it has ‘all been done before’. There’s a certain feeling of stagnation plaguing the genre that has been evident for some time; a stagnation that not only threatens the ability of any one artist to find much ground for originality, but one that also threatens to take away much of the fanbase itself. As with many styles of music, if there isn’t something new and unique to keep the interest of the listeners, it is doomed to fade into obscurity as we’re seeing with many post-industrial styles at this moment. Teatro Grotesco, in that sense, are bringing a sort of tribal post-rock vibe to their distinct style of dark ambience that seems to combine the best moments of artists like Ulf Soderburg and Mathieu Vandekerckhove’s Syndrome and turn it into something not entirely new, but full of inspiration. That said, it appears that at a time when most of the most beloved and well-known artists in the genre seem to be suffering from either a lack of interest, motivation, or passion, there is a modest wealth of upcoming unknowns to fill that void if you’re willing to seek them out.

Teatro Grotesco, in that sense, is doing something very special with their project. This isn’t your typical industrial-influenced dark ambient work of vast bleakness, though there are plenty of those moments to go around; a fact which firmly places Teatro Grotesco within the dark ambient genre. Rather, it’s a sprawling thirteen-track album of complex instrumentation and deep, detailed production that impresses not only with every cinematic monolith that each track is destined to become, but through its ability to represent a variety of different beauties through the present compositions. Beauty in melancholy, beauty in primitivism, beauty in harmony and countless others. It, then, shouldn’t come as any surprise that there is a great revelation to be found here; that is, the revelation that the artist behind the music already has a great deal of success with another: The Joy of Nature — a psych folk endeavor that has found a great deal of support in the folk community since its inception in 2006. Elements of this project do appear in sparse quantity within Teatro Grotesco, but for the most part, this is something entirely new from the mind of Luis Couto.

Despite describing this album as a work of dark ambient, there is a surprising amount of intricacy within. There certainly is a fairly typical minimal nature surrounding the release, perhaps mostly due to its industrial roots, but it is difficult not to find a sincere respect for the amount of instrumentation found within. Moments of primitive tribal rhythms illuminate the soul of the project, taking us to a primordial time and back to man’s true essence. Guitar textures these industrial and tribal rhythms through lushly produced post-rock guitar melodies (“Maya”) that are often teamed with a subtle distortion that can both serve as a thickening agent in the back in of the mix and also work as an accompaniment to the tribal nature of specific tracks. Bells and piano further texture this modestly melodic effort, lending more depth to the atmosphere itself than actual instrumental prowess. There is, of course, the other primary point of Teatro Grotesco which lies in the reason behind their foundation — the tenebrous, visceral elements of industrial music that makes up the foundation of this release.

This dark sound is accompanied by the band’s own definition for the project; that it is, bluntly, the theatre for human suffering. The paralleled human heights of pleasure and pain make up the inevitable theme behind Teatro Grotesco’s music, an idea that may seem medieval, or even more ancient, at first glance, but in truth speaks of the present more than anything through only the hints left behind by the track titles. Where this style of music is plagued by a necessity for vocal silence and typically leaves projects only able to offer a vague understanding of the influence behind their music, Teatro Grotesco’s stance is all too familiar and clear. The very first track, “The Erosion of the Spirit”, spells it out in clear enough form right away. If that isn’t enough however, further reading leads us down a path into a seemingly anti-modern critique on modern habitual living. From the tongue-in-cheek distaste for the work ethic myth and corporate control of “Slavery was never so Widely Spread” to the tracks that define the soundtrack to our downward spiral into oblivion in “Signs of the Times” and “The Real Dark Age”, “Kroni’s Empire” perfectly embodies the modern human struggle, both in terms of our enslavement to consumerism and the complete loss of free will and spiritual awareness.

Perhaps the music behind the release isn’t quite this politically motivated, but its anti-modern stance cannot be denied, assumed or not. After all, Kroni himself is the original manifestation of evil, and what better subject to represent his empire than the current human decline. Furthermore, the album artwork is a lone candle in a dark existence — our own light leading us through the dark, burning dimmer with every passing day."