" M U S I C " "Music is aesthetically perceptible time - present time. And this reminds us of the identity of moment and eternity." Hermann Hesse
Discography The Hampstead Sketchbook Blue Fortress     MP3 Late Summer In Paernu Russell Square – including Lalyraa Shadows Sky Eye Cairo Svoboda A Romance Of Art  Your Privacy But The Walls Tory Island Is Sleeping And Dreaming Sulamith & Maria – including Marto Pond Why? Prophet Green CD album (CD Baby, 2014) Ordering CD     Fleeting Impressions Departure Russell Square (reminiscence to Lalyraa) The Portuguese Of Littlehampton Kierkegaard’s Spheres Late Summer In Paernu Latvian Letters Lithuania Night Train To St Petersburg Czerny Carpathian Castles Transylvania Express Florian Tér Mostar From Piran To Perast     MP3 But The Walls Crossing Crna Gora Beograd Alleys Of Plovdiv The Faded Rose Of Stamboul Ararat Reaching For The Stars CD album (CD Baby, 2014) Ordering CD     Magenta Emerald - II: Conversion & III: Continuance II: Conversion Ouverture Disunion Admiration Viewing Coastland Regarding Accordance      MP3 Unison III: Continuance Ouverture Crystallization Solidification CD album (CD Baby, 2011) Ordering CD   These two cycles, "II: Conversion" and "III: Continuance", both combined on one album, are forming the keystone of AUTUMN's "Magenta Emerald" trilogy. This journey into the psyche is orientated to the concept of development novels: Different layers of personalities, emotional worlds and live models are merged in one fictional person, who is developing by the search for sense. While "Part I: Crisis" has been about the creation of the protagonist Magenta Emerald and the description of that fictitious and indefinable north sea island on which she meets Mondrian, the alter ego of the author Morus himself, "Part II: Conversion" describes the protagonist's independence from the poet's dreaming. With the materialization of the protagonist Utopia is becoming an unreachable and abstract idea, and caused by this change the worldly problems are arising. While "Conversion" tells of repulsion, isolation and the long way to mutual respect concerning the persons on that fictitious island, "Part III: Continuance" is a musical crystallization of the elements, which result of Magenta Emerald's search for sense. A mélange of music theatre and song cycle combining modern, classical and traditional sounds - a journey into the psyche, a collection of poetic soundscapes, ,written and essentially recorded on the North Sea islands Vlieland and Schiermonnikoog.   Parzival Der Aventiure Anfang Der Abschied Die Suche Auf dem Weg      MP3 Parzivals Hoffnung Ein Liedelein für meine Liebste fein Tanz der Gefühle Der Gral Wie wiegt mein Herz so schwer Die Erfüllung CD album (CD Baby, 2011) Ordering CD   Based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's ancient epos this musical cycle combines ambient atmospheres, classical and medieval instruments with recitations of the original verses to create a collection of mystic and poetic soundscapes. A musical universe full of melancholy, which moves into a neo-classical fantasy.   Eurasia Introduction Die Wolken sich nun    abwärts jagen      MP3 Intermezzo I Prospero Intermezzo II Svoboda Intermezzo III Oda Lui Eminescu Intermezzo IV Alametsiz Intermezzo V L' Ésprit De La Méditerranée Intermezzo VI Eurasia Conclusion CD album (Karma Records, 2008) For ordering CD (10 €, postage & packaging included) please go to C o n t a c t   The central idea of this concept album is to lay emphasis on the indivisibility of two cultural complexes - Occident and Orient - as it is well-founded in the union both continents are forming. It is a mélange of ideational roots within a cycle by using different European and Asian influences and languages - some kind of musical journey.   2 Decades Impression In Blue The Tower Of Lies In Winter Sapientia Tarnished Mirror Your Privacy ~ Instrumental Autumn ~ And The Trees Will Welcome You Don't Leave Us Borderland The Windows ~ Anniversary Version Phoenix Blue Fortress Your Love Was A Monument Lalyraa ~ IV      MP3 Ivory Tower Sky Eye Together L'Évolution Fantastique Three Jesters At A Graveyard Feast La Balance including Bonus-CD-Album with 8 Performances: The Sound Of Weakness Agnice L'Agonie Scuola's Voice Mirroring Flutwellen Pourtant L'Europe Après La Pluie Nehaj CD double album (NovaTune, 2006) For ordering CD (12 €, postage & packaging included) please go to C o n t a c t   AUTUMN was founded on a walk through autumnally forests in October 1984 and within the following two years the music & art circle laid the stylistic foundations until a first performance and a first album length release concluded that period. Two decades later the members retired again for several days for the beginning of another two years of self reflection, search and discussion for preserving and renewing the artistic contents and aims. The result has been this album, which means a guideline to the circle's work for the future by concentrating on stylistic reflection, search and reformation - including also a few newly interpreted versions of personal mile stones of musical development.   La sanktigo de la aûtuno, de la vintro Septembro      MP3 Oktobro Novembro Decembro Januaro Februaro EP (NovaTune, 2005) For ordering CD (7 €, postage & packaging included) please go to C o n t a c t La sanktigo de la primavero, de la somero Marto      MP3 Aprilo Majo Junio Julio Aûgusto EP (NovaTune, 2005) For ordering CD (7 €, postage & packaging included) please go to C o n t a c t   On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the collective AUTUMN the members met in autumn of 2004 for several days on a castle near Nuremberg to lay the foundation stone for the jubilee releases. The place was chosen carefully. Because on walking-tours in the forests surrounding the castle Ludwig Tieck and W.H. Wackenroder have been inspired for their first writings that once started European Romantic, which art ideals are also defining the basics of the collective that is dedicated to this cultural stream and to its further development. Furthermore the place is a reminiscence to the beginnings of Autumn on a similar journey to this autumnally forest land twenty years ago. Again the aims of the collective and the possibilities of artistic work have been discussed and there has been a lot of music making and experimenting. The results are recordings of numerous titles: the foundation for a new forthcoming album and the blueprint for the two jubilee EPs. In conjunction to the name of the project the basic idea for the two EPs was a classical theme: The setting to music of the four seasons. So EP 1 deals with the emotions of spring and summer and EP 2 of autumn and winter to capture them in a nearly pantheistic form. Again bridges between styles are built. These also lyrical different aspects - again different languages from the orient and occident are used - are combined under the title 'La sanktigo de la …' for which the artificial language Esperanto has been chosen consciously.   Magenta Emerald - I: Crisis Ouverture Prologue Tear Vanishing Void Appearance Sign Spirits Hope Grief      MP3 Wind Waves Water Wishes Finale CD album (NovaTune, 2005) Ordering CD   The cycle 'Magenta Emerald' - developed as trilogy - is a journey into the psyche and its contents are orientated to the concept of development novels of the idealism: Different layers of personalities, emotional worlds and live models are merged in one fictional person, who is developing by the search for sense - but here contrary to the classical examples without the goal of a morally defined and precise ideal. Musically "Magenta Emerald" is a mixture of music theatre and song cycle. The first part "Crisis" is about the adolescent longing for an Utopia, but it is also about doubts and faithlessness caused by the impossibility of those unrealizable illusions. And this contradiction in terms contains the central topic - the inner turmoil. The scenery is a fictitious coastal landscape, reduced to the essential. The never ending struggle of the extremes sea and land is used as a symbol of this inner conflict. Morus, the narrator of the story, dreams of his final and perfect Utopia, absolutely isolated from the world outside. In the first part the central figure, Magenta Emerald, tries to escape from that inner turmoil, but the protagonist becomes independent and she embroils the poet himself into the plot. So the dreamer is no more master of his dreams, at the end his Utopia fails and an indescribable ideal arises, an abstract and very private Utopia, which already fulfils itself in one's imagination. So there is no description of a perfect state like Plato or Thomas Morus did, but a single individual is shown under the impression of inner turmoil and brittleness of our time - in this case Magenta Emerald - who develops, passing ways and meanders, as a representative for a world model.   Sulamith & Maria Refugium-Tryptichon Dreamland      MP3 Sulamith & Maria La Rêve De La Cathédrale Himmelwärts Doubts In Watercolours Preta Stupor Mundi Norenberc-Tryptichon May Rain Ebediyet CD album (NovaTune, 2004) (10 €, postage & packaging included) Ordering CD   The concept album 'Sulamith & Maria' is about the international situation of this incipient 21st century, it is an answer to the increasing polarization between Occident and Orient, which is driven forward by fanatics on both sides. Since two members of the ensemble of those recordings spent their childhood and youth in the Orient, it is also a journey into the personal past - the theme of inner strife, living in between two societies. The central request has been to unite these two cultural complexes in their ideational roots within this cycle - a dialog of ideas, proceeding from the texts of Jalal ad-Din Rumi and Hildegard von Bingen. Around this central spiritual love poetry written by those European and Asian mystics who admonished for tolerance, some own lyrical sketches are ranking, concerning with the fusion of those different and although relative cultures. The cycle has been completed by poems of the European Romanticism, because this artistic movement has examined at the art of the Orient for the first time in later European history with a great sense of equal rights and without any illusion of self-superiority and has been influenced by this. The idea of the union of the cultural areas is also reflected by the choice of old and new European and Asian languages, sung and spoken by very different voices. The cycle 'Sulamith & Maria' means a signal, and so we follow the words of the romantic artist Friedrich Overbeck, who has painted the programmatic identically titled picture: "It is my task to merge those two elements which are facing each other. On the one hand is the memory of the native country and on the other hand the attraction of the marvellous and beautiful which I enjoy in the presence. This means the longing which the north drags on to the south constantly - its art, its nature, its poetry."   Fragments From Utopia As He Opened The Door The Sky Turned Friendly Glass-Picture Shadows      MP3 In Vain Why? That Daily Miracle Unvoiced Everywhere So Deceitful The Poet's Dreaming Cairo Prophet-Green World Year Of The Shield CD album (Triton, 2001) For ordering CD (10 €, postage & packaging included) please go to C o n t a c t   A Romance Of Art Shells Windows Serenade Glaube A Romance Of Art      MP3 Flaming Blue Fortress Epilogue Dawn EP (SinOrg, 2000) sold out   Autumn Autumn Your Privacy Interlude Dusk Vinyl-EP (SinOrg, 2000) sold out   Taciturn Tales Dedicated Commagene      MP3 Foundation Pond Souls Lalyraa III Venetian Sea Chronograph Shattered Further Leaving CD album (Triton, 1998) For ordering CD (10 €) please go to C o n t a c t   The Past Twelve Years On A Shelf Forgotten Light Summer Twilight Nacht Clouds Gate 2 Gare de l'Est - Gare du Nord Colours Blurred A New Awakening In A New Dream Hopeful Green The Train Departs Elysium      MP3 In The Park, In Springtime, After The Rainfall Insistence Sensuous Rainfall Rettung Interlude Night CD album (Museum Obscuro, 1997) sold out   Terra Incognita Lalyraa Ve      MP3 Terra Incognita Nacht Vinyl-EP (Musical Tragedies, 1994) sold out           MC releases (sold out) Shells On A Shelf MC-album (Prion, 1994) Toutes Les Saisons MC album (Harmonie, 1994) Movements Of The Hour-Hand In The Ivory Tower MC album (EBU's Music, 1993) Autumn IV MC album (N.T., 1993) And The Trees Will Welcome You Again MC album (CAT, 1992) Wings Are Growing MC album (S-Meta, 1992) The Great White Hope And Its Cold Leavings MC album (Scuola's Voice, 1988) And The Trees Will Welcome You MC album (autoproduction, 1986) Tarnished Mirror MC demo (autoproduction, 1985) [hãbl] MC demo (autoproduction, 1984)               Compilations Svoboda released on 'Infectious Unease Radio Compilation – Volume 1' (Demus) Im Licht der Vernunft released on 'mc2 - A Musical Tribute To Albert Einstein' (NovaTune) Grief released on 'Cold Hands Seduction - Vol. 49' (Sonic Seducer) Forget released on 'Il Sium E Il Vencul' (SinOrg) Venetian released on 'Gothic Enigma II' (Triton) On A Shelf released on 'Cantara' (Angelwings/EFA) Comagene - instr. version released on 'Instants Sacrés - suite et fin' (Euterpe Diffusion) CrisisI2 (instr. Version) released on 'Instants Sacrés & Damnés' (Euterpe Diffusion) Dedicated released on 'The Art Of M.T.' (M.T.) Kaya released on 'Instants Ardents 2' (Les Variations Ludiques) On A Shelf released on 'Musica Celestia Sampler 2' (Cri Du Chat) A Mortal Nightmare released on 'Outbreakers I' (EBU's Music) Numerous Compilation-Contributions released on various tape labels (from 1984 until 1993) All compositions, arrangements and lyrics by AUTUMN.