Format Details:
Release Date: 24 October 2022
Label: The Circle Music
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 634240063466
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal Black Metal
Description
New Mastering by Thomas Tannenberger (Abigor)
"The title KOKON paraphrases the main essence of the plot and contemporaneously it's an allegory of one of this play's messages: Being put in prison in his own body, in a very small and reduced world. The idea behind KOKON was to make a play, which acts in a common box. Very elementary. Just a box without fixtures and colours. Just a monochrome box. This gave me the possibility to concentrate on very strong theatrical figures and characters. My main intention was to underline the gloomy drama of the story. Thus we had neglected all kind of comical and ambiguous elements, which for example had been part in some former Angizia plays. I didn't want to make something consciously "unfunny". No, every moment in KOKON is full of drama and all we did, all we wished to do and all we have played, spoken, elegized and shouted in the microphones was a drama, nothing else. I wished to have an intensive & gloomy drama, a dramatic plot, dramatic scenes and a dramatic final scenario. Every step we did was done with the intention to work on a drama. Of course in Angizia's works a listener will always find sweet and morbid scenes, some irony, sarcastic love, sympathetic antiheros and many bizarre elements. But KOKON is a grim and gloomy drama. The plot is based on three important characters. The main protagonist, which most probably I represented as mature "anti hero", is the HOMUNCULUS and thus a creature, which is caged in an arcane cocoon, dangling and moaning on the box' ceiling. The Homunculus is drugged up to the eyeballs with poison, knob and pain. He is the creation of FRAU JANSEN, a grotesque spinstress and her cruel husband (HERR JANSEN), a curious captain with an awe-inspiring pistol. All the JANSENS wished to have is their own magnum opus, which should be their permanent fixture in this common box. A work of pain, agony, love, hate and passion, which they adore day for day. It was the perfect scaffolding for our musical ideas. The remaining characters (in supporting roles) are: HERR EISMANN, minion of HERR JANSEN and narrator of the story, A BOHEMIAN with contra guitar and a drake, A CELLIST in a side room, JANOS FLIER,a blind piano player...,and...an enchanting VIOLIST. For KOKON we have neglected any sort of comic and comical moments. We have forced the pure drama instead of comic, irony and cheerful sounds and for example have disclaimed klezmer or in general jewish elements and some instruments which have shaped former Angizia albums such as accordion and clarinet. I wished to power KOKON with a warm & melancholic cello, a crazy viola, a virtuoso and present grand piano, intensive spoken word passages and special instruments such as a "singing saw" and a "contra guitar". I think, KOKON is more dark and gloomy than previous Angizia albums, very emotional and immediate.
Double Black 180g vinyl with 12 page insert.
Tracklisting
ATARAXIA
Paradise Lost
Virgin Vampires
Naglfar
Pink Panther Project
Dark Fortress
Lake of Tears
Lacuna Coil
Fleurety
Valkyrja
Sickle of Dust
Sadness
Sadness
An-Xul
A Light In The Dark
Liljevars Brann
