Artist: LATHEBRA
Title: Angels' Twilight Odes
Style: Melancholic Dark Metal
Format: digiCD / digital
Label: My Kingdom Music / Sylphorium Rec.
Cat.Nr: echo182
Street Date: March 10th, 2023
country: Italy
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Originally released by Noctilucae Creationes on November 1997 E.V.
Angels' Twilight Odes
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Antra
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My Velvet Dusk
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The Wait...
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Benighted Embrace
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Dhyana
1997 demo tape cover
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Angels' Twilight Odes
(original 1997 audio)
1. Antra >>>
2. My Velvet Dusk >>>
3. The Wait... >>>
4. Benighted Embrace >>>
5. Dhyana >>>
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"Angels' Twilight Odes"
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Reissue of the 1997 demo tape recorded by LATHEBRA
and released by Noctilucae Creationes
Digitally remastered by Davide Barbarulo
at the 20Hz20kHz Mastering Lab.
All music by Francesco Galano & Bruno Villani
All lyrics by G. Principe C.
except "Benighted Embrace" by Francesco Palumbo
All songs arranged by Lathebra
Logo by Antonio Raffaelle Pannullo
CD artwork and layout by Francesco Galano
Original artwork concept and layout by Francesco Palumbo
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Cyb Studio by Ettore Longobardi
and Lathebra in September 1997
"Dhyana" recorded by Pio Mazzano
Line-up:
G. Principe C.: voice & chant
Francesco Galano: guitars
Bruno Villani: guitars
Rosario Memoli: drums
Francesco Palumbo: bass
Piano & Keyboards on "Dhyana" by Francesco Galano
Violet female voice on "Antra" by Rosella Rocciola
Nature sound on "The Wait..." captured by Francesco Palumbo
Angels' Twilight Odes: the lyrics
ANTRA
La languida teatralità bramata / dove veritieri momenti / ricordano recezioni / Diramazioni in concupiscenza / scivolano ialine / girano ubique / illacrimabili, argentee / e senza sindoni... biancheggiano / Libertà t'adorrò
MY VELVET DUSK
Far away and latent / in the wither's beauty fragrance / with delight I'm walking in the shortage / the ruins of carnal horizons / are the monuments of my domain / THEY are the monuments of my domain / "Oh, so gently vain the enthusiasms / in the fondness of loneliness / I, forgetting the light / only the absence illuminates me / only the absence... endlessly / but the arrival of longed for springs / gives me nightfalls of brightness / in their COMING I bleed / the wailings scent / in their COMING, the wailings scent" / why? / "Where to see the one's own will / will to mirror into ethereal / secret (graceful) place, secret (unknown) face" / In a whirl of flames and drops / my velvet dusk, a white design / crescent blooms sear again for my wilt / wondrous woe in disguise. Sacrifice. / AM I THE SYMBOL OF LIE? / Far away and latent my wither's beauty is A LIMBO / a lonely empire, enormous grandeur / "The weirdness' elegy. Deep violet sin" / THE VOID OF MY DREAMS / THY DREAMS IN THE VOID / My wraith's reign is dissolving the fate / the wan woebegone ecstasy where I forget / in a mystic waft, distant voices, vain calls, / all in a silvery frame of the cursed painting / for few regrets
THE WAIT...
Now blood reveals / the mourning seed by the veiled age / "λατεβρα" / painting of wretchedness / whispering of a dull voice / echoes in weakened visions / listening of a dismal breath / "On a bed of crosses / the restless wait (in oblivion) / a sleep without dream, without awakening / my efforts of forgetfulness / vanish to the light of sun / vanish shines" / A tearful dawn arises again / before my presence / SHE arises again, always / my eyes, anonymous and jaded / in the splendour twilight / the mournful serenade / embraces my apathy, in solitude / oh crimson passion / the Calvary (pleasant?) and the wait / the Calvary and... restless wait / And gather my cry / gather the chant of mine / when the dawn enlightens the eyes / cherish her torment on me / KISS MY SCARS / In reflexes of black / radiant silhouette glory, wealth, truth / in a black mirror / heavenly shapes and immensity / "...and in your warmth / the uncovered eyes, the blood / in the transcendence / the flovour of secrets / the flavour of my blood / and in your warmth / THE BEAUTIFUL SHADE..."
BENIGHTED EMBRACE
"I lay and recall... I'm still suspended in... / ...flavours... thorns... dreams..." / ...Just now I realize I've lost you / shining eclipse of my icy sun / I lose myself in the garden of eternal passions / I cry finding again fallen emotions / relishing moments of ecstasy again / sweet infinity drops slowly fall in the empty universe / while on my face bitter tears dig up drills in silence / All had an enchanting sense through my loving eyes / all my reality darkned appeared in this lighted gloaming / my suffering sunlight just died / plunging in a black sea / leaving only a desperate wake / as a stygian rose that blooming dies / And just now I realize I've lost you / shining eclipse of my icy sun / I look for you in the welkin at midnight / I admire you in the light of a star / Now the water overwhelms in silence my visionary void / while strange visions silently touch my conscience / the dark side of my soul / wakes up among thousand twinklings / and emerges from her sleep / and rises in the night / "Lugubrious lullaby, entomb my eyes / and silky becomes the sight / lugubrious lullaby, tune of mine / let me adore thy pure preciousness / the solemn enchantress of dawns / enraptured me / her colours daze me / I feel to dream / the supreme immortal empress / enraptured me her colours enslaved / and in falling I feel to bleed" / In the secluded deepness, with my radiant heart / in a point of no return, a solitary flame burns / While the disenchanted disappears / and unimaginable sensations / go along my naked body / adorning it with rare beauty / in a sea of eternal flames / in a circle of blasphemous lust / in a sweet cursed possession / that will NEVER LEAVE ME / I flow with her amenity / in the gloomy abysses of my perverse darkness / relishing the sublime and superb / scent of our naked flesh / which in the depths of the murk / voluptuously twine / On high a transparent moon / explodes in her grandeur / creating in the red sky / a myriad of coloured stars / now my crystal dream / appears in this arcane night / while my sunlight flame / mystically fades away
DHYANA
"...Un soliloquio rimembrante / tra sospiri e languore / dallo sfondo scarlatto / proiezioni raggianti, ardenti / le amare carezze di limpidi proemi / in me è scolpita l'immagine / incantami ancora / ancora una volta..."
BIOGRAPHY
1996... 5 guys give life to LATHEBRA, a musical project, an intimate and magical experience, a dark and extreme piece of music that people today, after more than a quarter of a century, still talk about.
LATHEBRA started their activity in the first months of the year 1996 with the aim to portray with the most various colors a kaleidoscope of sensations, feelings and emanations. After more than one year of intense song writing, on September 1997 at Cyb Studio with Ettore Longobardi, they recorded their debut demo titled "Angels' Twilight Odes", a musical sensitive experience, the poetic opus of the penumbral Art, the sound of the Solar Sadness.
The release was enthusiastically received, acclaimed as one of the best demo tapes of the year receiving great reviews all over the world and selling 1,000 copies in just 3 months. The band also played some live shows together with HEIMDAL, UNDERTAKERS, 3RD.
Then in 2000 the band recorded a second demo "Etra" a three tracks promo destined to label only!
But things of life have taken us far and interested in totally different situations so after this, the band split-up and... it was the silence.
This until 2021 when Nelson of Sylphorium Records, a great fan of the band since the early years, showed interest in releasing the demo tape on CD. After so many years there were still people talking about our band and thinking it might be interesting to listen to our music, so it didn't take us long to collect all the audio material we had, the old DATs, and send them to Davide Barbarulo at 20Hz20kHz Mastering Lab for a great remastering action.
The result is this edition of "Angels' Twilight Odes" released by My Kingdom Music and Sylphorium Records, limited to only 300 copies.
And once again it is the ultimate inner refuge of our soul, a dark, melancholic and tormented music which in the most sublime way has marked our lives.
PHOTO
Cover tape 1997 | Lathebra - photo session 1 | Lathebra - photo session 2 |
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Lathebra - photo session 3 | Lathebra at Cyb studio (G. Principe C.) | Lathebra at Cyb studio (Francesco Galano) |
Lathebra at Cyb studio (Bruno Villani) | Lathebra at Cyb studio (Francesco Palumbo) | Lathebra at Cyb studio (Rosario Memoli) |
Lathebra at Cyb studio (Rosella Rocciola) | Lathebra at Cyb studio (with Ercole Longobardi) |