Florilegium, by LUPERCALIA

Florilegium

by LUPERCALIA

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Deluxe digipak CD, with a full-colour 16-page booklet completed with additional imagery provided by German photographer Achim Bednorz (known for his work in various Art History books), among others.

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1.	Tribe 05:46	buy track
2.	Ouroboros 04:14	buy track
3.	Aegypto ad Siciliam 05:21	buy track
4.	Personent Hodie 04:11	buy track
5.	Sub Specie Aeternitatis 08:54	buy track
6.	Praga 05:21	buy track
7.	Rebis 04:59	buy track
8.	Kundalini 01:43	buy track
9.	Curtis 02:29	buy track
10.	Axe 03:28	buy track
11.	FormisMelaraSanctusFilix 10:38	buy track
12.	The Wind That Shakes the Barley 03:04	buy track
13.	Pilgrim's Chant 03:29	buy track

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In the finest Italian Neo-Classical Medieval/Gothic Italian tradition, Lupercalia's second album blends together Eastern and European influences in an alchemical creation produced by top-notch musicianship and a strong soprano voice.

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released May 17, 2004

"Florilegium" is a Latin word meaning a 'collection of script', a 'literary anthology'. This second album of the duo LUPERCALIA was born with a change of line-up, when the soprano singer Claudia Florio joined Riccardo Prencipe, the founding member of the project.

Riccardo, a skilled multi-instrumentalist, who handles classical guitar, orchestral synth and dulcimer, is also the person responsible for the arrangements on the album, put together with the intention of giving birth to a soundtrack for a movie that exists only in his own imagination. Said soundtrack is further enhanced by orchestration performed by a real string quartet and by the impressive work of solo violinist Gianluca Uccio.

Claudia's bold delivery and the Latin lyrics used contribute to the wide canvas of moods and emotions portrayed on "Florilegium", a collection of elaborate and complex tracks where Arabic flavoured melodies clash headfirst into Medieval inspired Neo-Classical compositions, drawing into a single soundscape various elements otherwise alien to each other.

An ancient, and often hazy and surreal, aura haunts "Florilegium" - the perfect result from the combination between Riccardo's medieval art studies and Claudia's alchemical teachings, applied to the inspiration found in various old monuments and traditional melodies (such as the XII century pilgrim's song that they have recreated for this recording).

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Equilibrium Music was born in August 2000 with the intent of providing a breeding ground for Darkwave, Neo-Classical, Medieval, Dark Folk, Ambient music and related genres in Portugal.

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