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mercurius 03:05
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[Lyrics] Dies irae, dies illa, solvet saeculum in favilla, teste David cum Sibylla. Quantus tremor est futurus, quando iudex est venturus, cuncta stricte discussurus. Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum. Mors stupebit et natura, cum resurget creatura, iudicanti responsura. Liber scriptus proferetur, in quo totum continetur, unde mundus iudicetur. Iudex ergo cum sedebit, quidquid latet apparebit: nil inultum remanebit. Quid sum miser tunc dicturus? quem patronum rogaturus? cum vix iustus sit securus. Rex tremendae maiestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me, fons pietatis. Recordare Iesu pie, quod sum causa tuae viae: ne me perdas illa die. Quaerens me, sedisti lassus: redemisti crucem passus: tantus labor non sit cassus. [English] That day of wrath, that dreadful day, shall heaven and earth in ashes lay, as David and the Sybil say. What horror must invade the mind when the approaching Judge shall find and sift the deeds of all mankind. The mighty trumpet's wondrous tone shall rend each tomb's sepulchral stone and summon all before the Throne. Now death and nature with surprise behold the trembling sinners rise to meet the Judge's searching eyes. Then shall with universal dread the Book of Consciences be read to judge the lives of all the dead. For now before the Judge severe all hidden things must plain appear; no crime can pass unpunished here. O what shall I, so guilty plead? and who for me will intercede? when even Saints shall comfort need? O King of dreadful majesty. grace and mercy You grant free; as Fount of Kindness, save me. Recall, dear Jesus, for my sake you did our suffering nature take then do not now my soul forsake. In weariness You sought for me, and suffering upon the tree. let not in vain such labor be.
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sadot 05:23 video
[Lyrics] שָׂדוֹת שֶׁבָּעֵמֶק קִדְּמוּנִי הַלַּיְלָה ,בְּרֵיחַ הַזֶּבֶל .נִיחוֹחַ חָצִיר הַלַּיְלָה לָעֵמֶק ,אֲנִי אֲזַמֵּרָה כִּי אֹשֶׁר בָּאַנִי .וְחֶסֶד הַשִּׁיר. רָצָה גּוֹרָלִי כִּי אָשׁוּבָה אֵלֶיךָ ,מֵעֶצֶב הַמָּוֶת .מֵעֶרֶשׂ הַשְּׁכוֹל מִכָּל חֲסָדִים לִי אֻשַּׁרְתִּי בַּיֶּגַע לִגְמֹעַ מֵימֶיךָ .פִּתְּךָ לֶאֱכֹל אָסְפֵנִי אֵלֶיךָ ,אֱסֹף כַּשִּׁבֹּלֶת שִׁבֹּלֶת לַגֹּרֶן !בְּחַג הַקָּצִיר הַלַּיְלָה לָעֵמֶק ,אֲנִי אֲזַמֵּרָה כִּי אֹשֶׁר בָּאַנִי .וְחֶסֶד הַשִּׁיר [Romanized Hebrew] Sadot Sheba’emek Kidmuni halayla Bereakh hazevel nikhoakh khatzir. Halayla la’emek ani azamera Ki osher bani Vekhessed hashir Ratza gorali ki Ashuva elekha Me’etzev hamavet me’eres hashkhol Mikol khassadim li Usharti Beyega Ligmo’a meimekha Pitkha le’ekhol Asfeni elekha Assof keshibolet Shibolet lagoren Bekhag hakatsir Halayla la’emek ani azamera Ki osher bani Vekhessed hashir [English] Fields in the Valley Greeted me this night With the smell of manure, the odor of hay. Tonight to the valley I will sing For joy has come to me And the grace of the tune. My fate has portrayed That I will return to you From the sorrow of death, from the cradle of grief. From all of my graces I have been wearily approved To gulp from your waters, Your bread then to gnaw. Gather me to you, Gather as a stalk of grain A stalk to the granary On the feast of harvest. Tonight to the valley I will sing Because joy has come to me And the grace of the tune.
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polyxena 07:49 video
[Lyrics] אצל החוף התראקי עגן עם הצי אגממנון עד ישקטו הרוחות על הים הגועש ולפתע פיה פתחה אדמה ואכילס ממנה הגיח צלם המת כצלמו בחייו וארשת פניהו כעס וזעם אימים כביום התנפלו בחניתו וצדוק לא צדק ויקרא אל המלך ?אל תעזבוני אחים יקרים! השכחתם ?כלום נשכחה תודתכם לגיבור? האיתי תקברוה אל תעשו זאת! כבדו את צילי וטבחו על הקבר !את פוליקסנה למען נשמת בן-של-מלך עשו זאת סח, ושמעו לצלו האכזר: מחיק אם חטפוה נוחם אחד נשארה בצרה לאמה, להקובה בת אומללהה, אמיצה פי שבעה מעלמה, מבת אשת .הכהנים למקום הנורא כעולה נהגוה ,לא שכחה את פאר יחסה בגישתה למזבח הן ראתה כי חיכה לה המוות בלהב, ותרא את איש החרב עומד על ידה ואוחז מאכלת :עין נעץ בפניה, ותשח לגבר ותאמר ?קומה ושפוך את דמי האציל, כי למה תתמהמה שא חרבך החדה בלבנת צווארי תתקענה או בחזי! ולבנת צווארה וחזה היא חושפת אין פולקסנה שפחה ולא תעבוד ילוד-אשת לא בקרבן חייתי תשדל אלוהים על מזבח !אפס, אם צדק אדרוש, ירחק נא כל גבר ממני אל נא יגע בבתולה, וארד טהורה אלי קבר לא תטמאני יד איש! ויהי זה האל אשר יהי לא תזבחוני כיום, הן ינעם פי שבעה לו לבטח דם בת חורין חפשייה, ואם יש בכם לב היעתרו נא אל אחרון תחנוני לא שפחה לפניכם מתחננת סחה, העם לא עצר דמעותיו, העלמה עצרתן אף הכהן על כרחו, ניגש לקרבן מתייפח ומאכלת תקע בלבנת החזה המושט לו ברך כרעה אומללה, ותצנח אין אונים על הארץ לא רעדה והישירה עיניה אל נוכח המוות עוד דאגה בנפלה לכסות ערוותה בידיה עוד נשמתה באפיה – צנעת בתולים לא שכחה וישאוה נשים, ותימנינה כמה כבר הספידו מין הנופלות לחרבו של הבעל כדם ללא קצה הן הספידוך, בתולה, גם עלייך בכו, אשת מלך אם וגבירה עוד אתמול, בפי כל, והאם המסכנת פגר עלוב וחסר נשמה אמיצה היא חובקת את דמעתה זו שפכה על עירה בעלה ובניה וגם לבתה לא חסכה. נשרה דמעתה אל הפצע ותישקנה, ותך על חזה ותקרע שמלותיה :תרב קינה על בתה, שרטה את בשרה, והילילה ,בת, אחרון מכאובי, כי מה עוד לי נותר !אנוש פצעך! אללי לי! פצעי הוא, דמי הוא .צלם המת כצלמו בחייו על כנ פיו של ה אל בט רוס - ר פול - עף - - עד - - קְצה - - - ים - ת חת - צל - ר פול - - צף - - - - חי - - עץ - - - - בוק - אֹור - - רַ ך - מְ אֹד - פֹו גֶש - מֵר חַ קֵי - ים - - נִז - נַח - - נַ מַל - נִז נַח נַ מַל - נִנ טַש - שֹו בֶר גַ לִים - רָ ם [English] Until the sea might be more calm, and gales of wind might be subdued, Agamemnon moored his fleet of ships upon the Thracian shore; there, from wide gaping earth, Achilles rose, The dead man’s shape just as his shape when lived, as when his sword once threatened Agamemnon. “Forgetting me do you depart, O Greeks?” He said, “And is your grateful! memory of all my worth interred with my bones? Do not do so. And that my sepulchre may have due worship, let Polyxena be immolated to appease the ghost: of dead Achilles.” Fiercely so he spoke. The old friends of Achilles all obeyed his unforgiving shade; and instantly the noble and unhappy virgin—brave, more like a man than woman—was torn from her mother's bosom. And then they led the virgin as a sacrifice from there up to the cruel altar. When the maid observed the savage rites prepared for her, and when she noticed Neoptolemus stand by her with his cruel sword in hand, his fixed eyes on her countenance; she said: “Do not delay my generous gift of blood, with no resistance thrust the ready steel into my throat or breast!” And then she laid both throat and bosom bare. “Polyxena would never wish to live in slavery. And such rites win no favor from a god. Now let your men stand back, that I may go with dignity down to the Stygian shades, and, if my plea is just, let no man's hand touch my pure virgin body. A nobler gift to him, whoever he may be, whom you desire to placate with my death today, shall be a free maid's blood. But, if my words— my parting wish, has power to touch your hearts, (King Priam's daughter, not a captive, pleads) After she said these words, the people could no more restrain their tears; but no one saw her shed one tear. Even the priest himself, reluctantly and weeping, drove the steel into her proffered breast. On failing knees she sank down to the earth; but still maintained a countenance undaunted to the last: and, even unto death, it was her care to cover all that ought to be concealed, and save the value of chaste modesty. The Trojan matrons took her and recalled, lamenting, all the wives already dead, Blood by husbands’ swords had shed them all. And they bewailed you chaste Polyxena You too, her mother, only lately called the royal wife, continued to embrace the body of a soul so brave, and shed her tears, as she had shed them oft before for country lost, for sons, for royal mate. She bathed her daughter's wounds with tears and kissed them with her lips and once more beat her breast. Her white hair streamed down in the clotting blood, she tore her breast, and this and more she said: “My daughter, what further sorrow can be mine? My daughter you lie dead, I see your wounds— they are indeed my own. I thought, because you were a woman, you were safe from swords.” The dead man’s shape just as his shape when lived. On the wings of the al bat ros - Ra ful - flies - - till - - sea - - - edge - un der - Ra - ful’s shade - - floats - - - - lives - - bok - - - - tree - ve - - ry - soft light - mee ting - sea dis tan - ces - - neg - lec - - ted port - neg lec ted port - a ban - donned high break wa- ter
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Kol Badai 07:58
[Lyrics] האולמות סואנים מקהל אספסוף הפכפך הוא שם ישוטט הכזב הבדוי וקורטוב של אמת בו שם ריבואות רחשי רכילות עמומים יהלכו אלה יפיצו בדים ופושה הבדיה וצומחת נופך יוסיף משלו לסיפור כל בדאי למינהו כאן האמון לכל שקר ישכון הטעות פה שוכנת שם השמחה לא יסוד לה ופחד השווא מתגורר שם המרדנות על ידם והרכילות שלא אב ולא אם לה [Romanized Hebrew] Ha'ulamot so'anim mikahal asafsouf hafakhpakh hou Sham yeshotet hakazav habadoui vekortov shel emet bo Sham ribo'ot rekhashey rekhilout amoumim yehalekhou Elle yafitsou badim oufosha habdaya vetsomakhat Nofekh yosif mishelo lasipour Kol badai leminehou Kan ha'emoun lekhol sheker yishkon hata'out po shokhenet Sham hasimkha lo yesod la oufakhad hashav mitgorer sham Hamardanout al yadam veharekhilout shelo av velo em la [English] The halls are tumultuous with the crowd of an unstable mob There shall roam the fabricated lie, an ounce of truth within it There tens of thousands of dim rustles of gossip will spread Those will disseminate lies and the falsehood extending and growing A touch of his own will be added by any liar of sorts Here the trust to all falseness will dwell, the mistake herein lies There the joy has no foundation and the futile fear there lives The rebelliousness sits near them, and the gossip that has no father and no mother
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lute 06:39
[Lyrics] Ask me why I do not sing To the tension of the strings As I did not long ago When my numbers full did flow Grief, ah, me, hath struck my lute And my tongue at one time mute

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Atonia is the collaboration between Wyatt E (BE), Five the Hierophant (UK), and Tomer Damsky AKA MC Slice from JLM’s Wackelkontakt, specially commissioned for Roadburn Festival’s 2022 edition. The clash of musicians from the worlds of doom, drone, and psychotrap has produced this hybrid set, conceptually drawing on an array of ancient liturgical and folkloristic inspirations from Hebrew to Latin; a culmination of musical ideas by the three entities welded together on one hectic weekend and performed in front of an audience only once.
This record is a documentation of Atonia’s performance in Roadburn 2022, remembered as one of the most striking collaborations of that year.

The lyrical and melodic content, compiled by Damsky, offers a multilingual collection of interpretations of texts from the far-to-near past, each containing its own little abyss of symbolic, theological, and political contexts, sung-spoken-uttered-screamed in Damsky's voice that shifts smoothly between various musical worlds and soars on top of the sheer mass of instruments thundering from the eight-piece assembly on stage, hand in hand with the scorching expressiveness of Roffey's saxophone.

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The ominous intro of Mercurius is followed by Quantus Tremor, which joins the notorious (and irresistible) tradition of musical settings to the Dies Irae, an iconic Medieval sequence from the Catholic Mass for the Dead. Atonia's rendition deconstructs the Latin poem to a syllabic, monotonous off-beat chanting that bursts into unleashed screams.
Sadot is a rendition of an early Hebrew folk tune, charged with cultural and political explosives; the lyrics tell a tale about one who returns from a deathbed to a beloved valley in order to soothe and heal his suffering. The track opens with an excerpt from a tape recording by Damsky's mother, Avigail, who passed away during the work on this record. Avigail can be heard singing the more traditional version of the song she recorded in 1988. The story of the endless cultural and emotional luggage embodied in this tune is elaborated within the song’s page.
The Black Waves pretends to give the ears a rest from the swirl of symbolic content but quickly develops into a layered sonic overload as the guitars and synths build a solid edifice for the sax to painfully cut through.
Kol Badai and Polyxena are both built on excerpts from the old Hebrew translation of Roman poet Ovidius' Metamorphoses. Polyxena, performed as a spoken oration somewhere between storytelling and reproof, tells the story of the brave and brutal sacrifice of Princess Polyxena, daughter of Hecuba and King Priam of Troy, on the very grave of her fallen husband Achilles, whose ghost demands that his woman cannot live while he is not alive to have her. This episode is followed by a deconstruction of a text by Israeli playwright Yonatan Levy, about the symbolic death by drowning of the controversial IDF general Rafael Eitan.
Kol Badai is an allegorical, almost surrealistic description of a community ruled by rumours, where a lie-spreading mob is guided by mistakes and everything is automatically taken for granted as the truth.
Lute is a traditional English folk round song, the exact origins of which are unknown but probably go back to Medieval times: a song about mourning, expressed by both musician and instrument. Looped back into itself, the finishing sentence "at one time mute", in contradiction with its meaning, becomes louder with each repetition until it builds up towards the emptying climax.

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From rock freaks - Aleksi Pertola

“Damsky’s impressive vocals soar above the entrancing repetitions, in a very grounded yet huge voice, but also gives us the chills as she suddenly bursts into some soul-ripping screaming that only heightens the intense feeling created by the instruments. The musicians seem in complete sync the whole set through, and provide us with music that is dark at all times but at the same time incredibly well-rounded and organic [...]

Everything works together as the set breathes in and out, with a very heavy emotional weight channeled perfectly by the band members. This show is definitely the shining gem at the very top of my festival experience this year, and while it is a treasured memory, we can also only hope that these musicians might collaborate again in the future”

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released April 7, 2023

ATONIA are
MITCH BARRETT: bass
TOMER DAMSKY: vocals / effects / synth
RORY DUNCAN: percussions
JON ROFFEY: saxophone
STEPHANE RONDIA: bass / synth / effects
JONAS SANDERS: drums
SEBASTIEN VON LANDAU: guitar / synth / b.vocals
KRZYSZTOF WŁODARSKI: guitar / bow

RECORDED AT Roadburn Festival 2022, April 22, 013 - Next Stage, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

LIVE ENGINEERING by Loïc Poës
ADDITIONNAL RECORDING by Ron Sheskin at Excessive Studios, Jerusalem
MIXED & MASTERED by Jonas Sanders at Blackout Studio, Brussels
LIGHTS by Joël Fagnant
VIDEO TEAM: Sarah Lambert (Director), G. Neaud, M. Theiner (cameramen)
BOOKING/MGMT: Pierre Gautiez (Dead Pig Entertainment)
PHOTOGRAPHY: Eyal Lally Bitton
LAYOUT: Thierry Tönnes

Released with the courtesy of ROADBURN FESTIVAL (Walter & Becky)

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2023 - Atonia - Live at Roadburn
2022 - āl bēlūti dārû (Stolen Body/UK)
2022 - Bowling Saturne OST (JauneOrange/BE)
2021 - Kol Badai w. T. Damsky (JauneOrange/BE)
2017 - Exile to Beyn Neharot (Shalosh Cult/IL)
2015 - Mount Sinai/Aswan (Interstellar Smoke/PL)

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