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Arcana
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Sweden (1993 – present)
(there are four artists with this name)
I. Arcana is a neoclassical/darkwave band from Sweden, formed in 1993. They merge classically- and medievally-inspired instrumental music with occasional vocals to arrive at a richly atmospheric and dark musical tapestry. Previously signed to the Cold Meat Industry label, the original line-up consisted of Peter Bjärgö and Ida Bengtsson, but since 2002 it changed line-up and now consists of Peter Bjärgö, Ann-Mari Thim, Stefan Eriksson, Cecilia Bjärgö and Mattias Borgh. Due to personal issues with Cold Meat Industry Peter dropped from the label and created his own label and mailorder called Erebus Odora. The label no longer exists, but the same Erebus Odora still exists as the studio where he is still active making his own music.
Official website: www.erebusodora.net/arcana
II. Arcana was a side project of bassist Bill Laswell’s. On The Last Wave Laswell joins his deep-bass to free music pioneer and guitar legend Derek Bailey together with drumming demigod Tony Williams to create the ultimate freely improvising power trio. The other album put out under this group name as a Laswell project was Arc Of The Testimony, one of the last projects drummer Tony Williams would record before his untimely death. Instead of the trio format, Laswell adds guitarists Buckethead and Nicky Skopelitis, Graham Haynes on cornet, and saxophonists Byard Lancaster and Pharoah Sanders. Where The Last Wave harkens to Laswell’s work in Last Exit, Arc of the Testimony is more along the lines of Ekstasis or some of the instrumental Material work, such as Hallucination Engine.
I. Arcana is a neoclassical/darkwave band from Sweden, formed in 1993. They merge classically- and medievally-inspired instrumental music with occasional vocals to arrive at a richly atmospheric and dark musical tapestry. Previously signed to the Cold Meat Industry label, the original line-up consisted of Peter Bjärgö and Ida Bengtsson, but since 2002 it changed line-up and now consists of Peter Bjärgö, Ann-Mari Thim, Stefan Eriksson, Cecilia Bjärgö and Mattias Borgh. Due to personal issues with Cold Meat Industry Peter dropped from the label and created his own label and mailorder called Erebus Odora. The label no longer exists, but the same Erebus Odora still exists as the studio where he is still active making his own music.
Official website: www.erebusodora.net/arcana
II. Arcana was a side project of bassist Bill Laswell’s. On The Last Wave Laswell joins his deep-bass to free music pioneer and guitar legend Derek Bailey together with drumming demigod Tony Williams to create the ultimate freely improvising power trio. The other album put out under this group name as a Laswell project was Arc Of The Testimony, one of the last projects drummer Tony Williams would record before his untimely death. Instead of the trio format, Laswell adds guitarists Buckethead and Nicky Skopelitis, Graham Haynes on cornet, and saxophonists Byard Lancaster and Pharoah Sanders. Where The Last Wave harkens to Laswell’s work in Last Exit, Arc of the Testimony is more along the lines of Ekstasis or some of the instrumental Material work, such as Hallucination Engine.
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Shoutbox
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Kayna22 wrote:
love Arcana,anyone wanna webcam chat? the link is in my profile.
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Kayna22 wrote:
love Arcana,anyone wanna webcam chat? the link is in my profile.
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ErebusOdora wrote:
A happy new year to you all from us in Arcana=)
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Themeros wrote:
Arcana is one of the select few artists I'd like to see live, but I guess Arcana coming to Brazil is just a little too big of a dream :/
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mancini7 wrote:
thanks for you from russia)
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skrekk wrote:
I`m sorry to hear that. :( Best wishes to Stefan and Arcana too.
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Trystane wrote:
:(
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ErebusOdora wrote:
I would like to inform you all that Stefan Eriksson has left Arcana. After a long time of thinking of this, he yesterday decided that this is what he need to do. We've had a lost of fun these past 7-8 years, and we will continue having fun, although at home:) Peter will search for a replacement for Stefan later on. This is nothing that will affect the music and Peter will continue to make his wonderful music that he's always done=)
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Snutskallar wrote:
"damn all this ambient bands would be so much better without voices...=/" And your comment would be so much better without words.
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UnholyTancred wrote:
"...the Last Embrace" is one of the greatest albums of all time, in my opinion of course <3
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Noise_Memories wrote:
www.last.fm/music/hathorus
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ultrandy wrote:
great freeform jazz! Tony williams is just fantastic in whatever he does!
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ErebusOdora wrote:
Arcana will perform in Nijmegen Holland. And we are very happy to be back again=) When:Saturday, 05 Jun 2010, 19:30 Where:Nijmegen, St Stevenskerkhof 62, Nijmegen, Gelderland, 6503 CE Bands: Arcana + Deleyaman + Faerydae Presale: 17€ (until Jan 16th 2010). After Jan 16th: 19€ Doors: 21€
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ErebusOdora wrote:
Thank you, Aeternacht=)
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aethernacht wrote:
"damn all this ambient bands would be so much better without voices.... =/ " - silliest thing I've seen in the Arcana shoutbox yet. The vocals pretty much are the ambience. Take those away and you would get nowhere near as an amazing experience as you do with them. The music is beautiful, the vocals are phenomenal.
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mentalcase83 wrote:
<3
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Trelogy wrote:
I love Arcana's voices. I cannot imagine Autumnal without voices. (especially) I don't mind about lyrics so much. Because I listen to voices as tones. (English is not my mother tongue. :P)
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ErebusOdora wrote:
Hm, I don't think opera would be that nice withut the voices... I love a beautiful vice in music... Listen to Arvo Pärt's choirs, Verdi's operas, Brendan Perry's smoothing voice or why not Diamanda Galas repertoir. Damn, I'm getting excited;)
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shinji03 wrote:
damn all this ambient bands would be so much better without voices.... =/
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ErebusOdora wrote:
Big thanks to all people who came to see us last Saturday in Prague=) We had a wonderful time, both off stage and on. Hope to back one day=)
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Maure full track | 5:07 |
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Hymn of Absolute Deceit full track | 3:34 |
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Chant of the Awakening full track | 4:21 |
Events
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Jun
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Arcana + Deleyaman + Faerydae
Stevenskerk, Nijmegen, Netherlands
5 shouts
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Jul
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Gothic Festival Waregem
Expo, Waregem, Belgium
1 shout
| 34 attendees
News
CD's for sale... again!
28 Jul 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/peterbjargo
We have a few albums for sale. If you find anything you like, just e-mail us and we will ship the order. Prices are marked below. The costs for shipping differ depending where you live in the world an. …
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Recent Activity
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Cabal999, Elidion, amborella and 4 other people added Arcana to their libraries. 6 hours ago
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minkastar tagged Arcana with neoclassical, darkwave and dark ambient. Wednesday evening
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melpomenah connected Arcana to the group Mother Nature. Tuesday afternoon
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