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on Ai Ma Ra, none of which we master in any traditional way, but for our purposes their usage posed no greater difficulty than the tools used for crafting Mirrorion. Besides organ & harmonium, there are several ethnic string instruments, flutes etc. What made you go down the route of using these more 'normal' instruments, and did you find them easier or more difficult tools to get across what you were trying to do ritually/sonically?ĪE There was a guitar on Mirrorion, but none on Ai Ma Ra. M:Your next release was the double cd release Ai Ma Ra- this saw you move away from the more percussive ritual sound of Mirrorion, towards a more drone/ eerier dirge type sound which utilized more conventional instruments such as guitar, organ & harmonium. In one Greek myth Orion is even killed by a scorpion: the analogy is plain. Whereas Mirrorion was constructed meticulously over a half a year period with abundant digital editing, Scorpion Milk was recorded directly to analog tape in a single session, and so forth. The albums are opposites in many ways, or maybe more properly counterparts. After finishing Mirrorion, which is an intensely active record, seething with energies it can barely contain, it was necessary to create something representing them in a calm, static and meditative manner, as means of grounding them. Do you see this work connected to Mirrorion? And how different did you go about creating it, compared with Mirrorion?ĪE Very differently. M:At the same time you put out Mirrorion, you also released the ltd Scorpions Milk album which saw you create one slow building ritual ambient work. Suffice to say, it is a heavily edited and FX-laden album, much more so than the later work which largely abandons such excesses. Even parts of the initial ritual sessions are hidden in the mix. What made you decide to focus just on these elements? How difficult was it to capture these elements & how much editing/processing was done back in the studio?ĪE Mirrorion is rich in field recordings, and acoustic elements, and we did not pay much attention to the fact before finishing the album – it was a natural turnout of the way we worked back then. M:The projects first sonic statement was 2006's Mirrorion- which utilized purely non electronic elements, and just ritual acoustic elements & voices/chants. But an outsider has also the advantage of a fresh perspective, and may still perceive and apprehend the power arising from their coalescence. Unless you are within, discerning those streams of influence might be difficult. And the music, the spiritual underpinnings and their concrete manifestations in ritual and gesture, artwork, and performance all feed each other. M:Your biography claims that music is almost a result of what you aiming for ritual - so is all your work written purely from a ritual context?ĪE It certainly began that way, but as we have evolved as a group, so has our definition of 'ritual'. 'Arctic', 'dawn', 'Tau' (a three-way intersection) are but some of them. We have never wanted to fix a definitive meaning to the name, but it has a cluster of perceptible associations to it, which are all fitting. The name came to us on the day we finished mixing the first album. We have never referred to it as a project though. M:Can you tell us about the origins of Arktau Eos project, why you picked the name & what's its meaning?ĪE We met in 2003 and began work on what was to be called Arktau Eos in 2005. ( All the answers were made as a collective with all three members contributing, hence I’m using the projects name for the answers instead on individual members names) I tracked down this most mysterious & elusive project for an email interview. The project has been in operation since 2005, and to date they have released five albums: Mirrorion(2006), Scorpion Milk(2006), Ai Ma Ra (2009), and Unworeldes & Ioh-Maera which have both recently released on Finland's Svart Records. Musique Machine / Multi-Genre Music Magazine Musique Machine / Multi-Genre Music MagazineĪrticle archive: # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y zįinland based Arktau Eos create some of the most authentic & chilling ritual/ dark ambient music you’ll have come across.