If north Europe has Wardruna, Heilung and Forndom, Italy has ILIENSES. This could not be possible but from Sardinia, the island of the ancient Nuragic civilizations, whose traditions and languages still live nowdays. ILIENSES Dark Folk music it's ritualistic, thickly atmospheric and deeply evocative of Barbagia's mysteries and spirits. The band plays with self-constructed traditional instruments, sings in Sardinian language and makes use of A Tenore chants, a Sardinian autochthon kind of throat singing. "Lost in the undefined time and space of visions that manifest themselves in their primal sacredness, we felt the importance of searching for our roots. In particular, we tried to understand how the forms that make us up also make up earth, water, fire and stars and how they reach us through an audible and silent language. We recognize their vibrations but not their location in our mind, and hence the need to find the key, the "Jae" of the mystery that opens hidden portals. Stones, woods, tombs, Domus, wells and Nuraghe, our primordial homes, are all thousands of years old living matter and are the places where we started chasing the thread of time, attached to both life and death. At the other end of the thread, we found esoteric figures, some appealing and some ominous, who hold with the same thread the extremes of everything, the beginning and the end of every being and every form, of men and even of time itself." - Ilienses (2024)
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