ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM IN PHILOSOPHY LITERATURE MUSIC & THE ARTS ISSUE 07 DEC 2014 - FEB 2015 DARREN HOLMES JAMES PHILIP PEGG JONATHAN CHARLES GEORGES MÉLIÈS RUNES BODY AND MIND LOREDANA FAYER YUTAKA ITINOSE FILMS & MADNESS PARADOX ETHEREAL MAGAZINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ISSUE 07 DEC 2014 - FEB 2015 & ART DIRECTOR P R E F A C E Mary Vareli Paradox Ethereal is a quar- ASSOCIATE EDITORS terly digital magazine pos- & sessing a re-enactment char- CONTRIBUTORS acter and related to the Arts, Romanticism, Aestheticism Kim Cascone and Symbolism. We flirt Spyros Papathanasiou Roberta Sparrow with Music - folk, ethereal, Philippe M. Blache or experimental forms - Yutaka Itinose Esoteric Traditions, Trav- Giorgos Papadopoulos eling possessing an explor- Loredana Fayer atory character, Art in all Orestis Damianos its magnitude and types, SPECIAL THANKS TO the Absurd in full glory, ev- John Roach, Ella Koten, Elena Simatou, Aria S. erything Retro or Vintage, Sofia Alikou, Tony Smith, H. 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Tracklist CD 1 01 Asya Sergeeva - Birds Of February 02 Vostok - Lontano Dalla Luce 03 Green Ashes - She Moved Through The Fair 04 Johanna-Adele Jüssi – Kiilid 05 Lanaya - Danny Boy 06 Aurago - To The River 07 Ainulindale – Namarië 08 Opium Dream Estate - The Last Kiss 09 Stillife - O, Ladushki 10 Danijel Zambo - Never Alone 11 Bansheerie - Lady Forlon 12 Wilderhost - The Past In Runes 13 Cawatana - In Darkness Again 14 Musk Ox - Above The Clouds 15 Oado - Calmness At Stress 16 Friends of Alice Ivy - Song Of The Willows CD 2 01 Lambda - Keine Antwort 02 Nicole Lefebvre - Spiral Stares 03 Hexperos - Diadem of the Night 04 Urlicht - The Tide Is Calling 05 Lenin - Tired Eyes 06 Macrima - Jenseits von Zeit und Raum 07 Jaime Black - Sands of Time 08 Mirabilis – Permafrost 09 Angela Little - The Wind That Shakes The Barley 10 Mathew Roth - The Fall of Ash & Embers 11 All My Faith Lost – Still A GIFT FOR READERS 12 Poets To Their Beloved - I Don't Want To Know 13 Zuzanna Matusewska – Porto FREE DOWNLOAD ON 14 Myristica - Soul Searcher http://at-sea-compilations.de 15 Nave Artificial – Presence 16 Sondra Sun-Odeon - Lady In The Woods http://paradoxethereal-magazine.com 17 Yusuke Tsutsumi – Harvest 18 Charlie Chaoli Sun – Dream With a total running time of nearly three hours Snowflakes III is the most comprehensive and ambitious release by At Sea Compilations. On 2 CDs highlights and secret tips from the genres Neoclassic, Ethereal and Dark / Neo-Folk are introduced. While on the first CD the focus is placed on the various folk styles, it’s Neoclassic and Ethereal on the second CD. The instruments range from harp and flute over different acoustic guitars to piano and string instruments. There are songs with captivating vocals of both genders to eavesdrop, as well as detailed instrumental pieces to discover. In compiling large importance was attached to appropriate song transitions, so that the different moods gently into each other and have time to develop. Each song takes on a special key position. Snowflakes III takes time and is therefore no compilation to hear the way, but for a conscious immersion in the music. Less than half a year took research and organization to complete. The German project At Sea Compilations was founded byAxel Meßinger to create a platform for underground bands and inquisitive music fans. TABLE OF CONTENTS (06) Editorial - Abstraction and Introversion (cover photo by Darren Holmes ) ARS LONGA (07) Darren Holmes US - Photographer l interview (13) James Philip Pegg l US - Photographer l interview (19) Jonathan Charles l England -Photographerl interview (24) Georges Méliès l Director l Article by Mary Vareli ARS AETERNAL (29) Mary Vareli l Runes, a magical Alphabet l Article (35) Yutaka Itinose l Body And Mind l essay RERUM PRIMORDIA (41) Percy Bysshe Shelley l A Defence of Poetry l essay (pt 7) (44) Loredana Fayer l Poetry SPIRITUS MUNDI (49) Mary Vareli l L’ Aquàrium-Barcelona, Spain l photos MUSICA (58) Friends of Alice Ivy l interview (66) Aurago l interview (70) In Love With l cd reviews & press releases AL LIBITUM (71) Addicted To l Photo array / Spyros Papathanasiou (72) Transcendental films l Films about madness AD ABSURDO (73) ParadoxSea l Seahorse (74) Roberta Sparrow l Once Upon a Time l Retro Naivety l photo array (77) Group members post l Photo array CONTACT www. paradoxethereal-magazine.com [email protected] © 2013 Copyright by Mary Vareli Paradox Ethereal Magazine – All rights reserved. You are not permitted to re-transmit, distribute or commercialise the material without obtaining prior written approval. Noncommercial Use Publication call for serious submissions “THE ARTIST IS THE CREATOR OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS” Oscar Wilde Abstraction and time, along Introversion with the oth- er salvation projects “In- “But how is the artist to protect himself troverted Intuitive” types as Jung would against the corruption of the age which say, saved themselves too. besets him on all sides?” wonders Fried- Stuck in the relative world and paying at- rich Schiller, and so do artists of all eras, tention to any silly detail, forced to buy, also urging to follow the flow of the one’s or experience, artists lose the mystery of own century but not be its creature, to the “inspiration paradise, lost in old and mingle but never integrate. new worries , faded away by the nega- It is contradictive, indeed, yet realistic, as tivity of one-dimensional people. THIS is contradictions prove themselves through corruption! the balance of the two opposing argu- When stuck “there”, use abstraction, elim- ments. Does this involve a specific frame inate details, “zoom” out, feel the gener- of mind? Yes, I believe, as long as it is ab- al atmosphere and imitate the instinct of stract! Conceptual abstraction is formed animals to avoid the consuming energy of by reducing the information content of a mundane details and aggressive people. concept, or an observable phenomenon, Seek isolation and be selective to friends to retain only information which is rele- and acquaintances, even to the “intake of vant for a particular purpose. (Suzanne K. relatives”. Dare to say “no”, dare to claim Langer, 1953) your rights to free space and mind... free to think, free to create. l Mary Vareli Francis Bacon in Novum Organum (1620) encouraged thinkers to collect and exam- ine specific facts before making any gen- eralizations and this is wise to do, but let’s admit it artists must resort to abstract thinking, if they want to survive the vul- garity of the world, not just the contem- porary world, but all eras. The expression “he lives in his own word” is used ironical- ly, and yet has saved thousands of people from madness. Every single day sensitive artists and thinkers are bombarded with messages “save the planet”, “save plants”, “save ani- mals” and so on; nobody says “save artists and thinkers”, save yourself”. I think it is cutting a sunbeam, Adam Diston, 1886 DARREN HOLMES “I am inspired by the desire to express something real to me. The search for honesty. I haven’t found it as much as I wish, which is what keeps me doing this work...with hopes that each work gets me closer to that ideal.” American Photographer intreview Darren Holmes reveals to Paradox unconventional ways, visually or expressive- Ethereal Magazine ... ly. The list would be too long to even be- gin, sometimes inspiration can be found in a I am inspired by the desire to express some- phrase or a sketch...it is how the artist gath- thing real to me. The search for honesty. I ers all of their inspiration from many sources haven’t found it as much as I wish, which is and brings it together in a personal way that what keeps me doing this work...with hopes I love to see. that each work gets me closer to that ideal. The inside world, the inner light guides or inspires the work of an artist, it really allows The beauty of art is that once an artist to create their work. it is created it is out of the art- ists’ hands. It becomes a partic- ipative experience where the viewer then decides what the work means or doesn’t mean to them. I believe that there is a place for optimism in art, if the optimism ex- presses some truth in revealing our de- sire to reach a state which we would think of as a positive one. There’s a place for all valid emotions I think...but the work that moves me the most is work that carries me away in some way.