Hiérogamia, by Coume Ouarnéde

Hiérogamia

by Coume Ouarnéde

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1.	Le Travail des Métaux (Music : Yan Arexis) 01:11	buy track
2.	Mort, Mortal Guerrier (Poem : Bertrand de Born, XIIe -Music : Yan Arexis) 03:10	buy track
3.	Fin’Amor (Yan Arexis) 01:36	buy track
4.	Tant Ai mon cor (Poem : Bernard de Ventadour, XIIe -Music : Yan Arexis) 04:24	buy track
5.	Hieros Gamos (Music : Yan Arexis) 02:22	buy track
6.	Nau Segadous (Poem : Trad XIxe -Music : Yan Arexis/ Wilfrid Arexis) 04:07	buy track
7.	Les charbonniers (Music : Yan Arexis) 02:48	buy track
8.	La grande squelette (Music : Yan Arexis/ Wilfrid Arexis) 05:49	buy track
9.	Doussa Vots (Music Bernard de Ventadour XIIe – Arrt : Yan Arexis) 01:44	buy track
10.	Le Grand en-bas (ou l’enfer de Villon) - (Poem : François Villon XVe -Music : Yan Arexis) 04:33	buy track
11.	Citadelles du vertige (Music : Yan Arexis) 01:28	buy track
12.	Forêt obscure (Music : Yan Arexis/ Wilfrid Arexis) 04:39	buy track
13.	Les petits prélats du Pape (Yan Arexis/Wilfrid Arexis) 00:35	buy track
14.	Hautes Vallées ( Music : Yan Arexis) 04:55	buy track
15.	Sou la Mountanho (Poem : trad XIXe -Music : Yan Arexis) 01:43	buy track
16.	Ar em el freg vengut (Poem : Azalaïs de Porcairagues, XIIe – Music : Yan Arexis) 06:01	buy track
17.	Al Soulehl coulcat (Poem : Trad XIX – Music : Yan Arexis) 01:24	buy track
18.	Consolamentum (Music Yan Arexis) 04:49	buy track

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From Yan Arexis (Stille Volk, La Breiche, Lingering Echoes) comes the 18 chapter opus, Hiérogamia. Modern composition and dark ambient atmospheres meet bardic storytelling of Occitanie tradition, steeped in Cathar mythology.

From the artist:

HIEROGAMIA means sacred union. It's the sacred union between two deities or between a deity and a human. It also symbolizes the fusion of dogmas and liturgies from old and new religions (spiritualities). A process known as syncretism. I've been fascinated by syncretism for 30 years. It can be seen everywhere in the Pyrenees: in churches that still have pagan votive altars in their walls, on megalithic monuments Christianized in the 19th century, in oral traditions whose stories are now part of the Catholic narrative, and in liturgy, which adopts certain survivals. It's not an assimilation but a conservation of the old cults by the new for the reasons of the time (spirituality and power). This recording includes texts from the 12th to the 19th centuries, reflecting the great independence of this Occitan land, as well as a text by François Villon. They are borrowed from the great classical works of male (Bernard de Ventadour, Bertrand de Born) and female (Azalaïs de Porcairagues) troubadours, and from the corpus of traditional Occitan songs, mainly from the 19th century. In the background, the Cathar story is a strong source of inspiration, so much so that it was an adventure in resistance, faith and sincerity for the region in which I live.

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released June 28, 2024

Composed, Recorded, mixed, mastered by Yan Arexis (except mentioned)

Yan AREXIS : Dulcimers, Psaltérion, Frame drum, various percussions, whistles, Steel & wood objets, Drum, voices, electronic, synths, Bass, Lapsteel

Wilfrid AREXIS : Trombone

Front cover painting : Hippolyte Flandrin, Piétà (1842)
Courtesy Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon. Photo Alain Basset © Lyon MBA

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