Transkarpatia

Our latest release "Transkarpatia", for example, is a mental journey through The Carpathian Mountain. The journey made by present-day person(s) that are given a chance to be eyewitnesses of the events that took place in the time of Inquisition. There are planty of dark feelings we talk about, that is why we have chosen mountains as a background motif: gloomy, massed forest hides a lot of secrets and untold stories. We also decided to keep Polish name in the title (Carphatians — Karpaty), as part of the mountain range is situated also in our country, but also we wanted it to be closer to our hearts and minds.

"Transkarpatia" is in a sense a journey into the past, forgotten emotions and lost ideals. The record is a certain concept-album if one treats it in terms of a subject-related story and not in terms of history having its beginning and the end. Even without a thorough perusal of the texts one can notice that the lyrical layer oscilates round the pagan issue and the issue of magic/necromancy. The matters being also touched upon on the record are : The Inquisition, vampirism and the hatred towards everything that The Church could not accept or was even afraid of. On the basis of history, together with Nera we created the vision of the world seen in a totally subjective manner. Nera browsed through many book and internet pages in order to be able to feel in the role of the then woman It was supposed to help her mirror her emotions in texts, arrangements and in the singing itself. This kind of subject matter has been the one we had in our mind for a long time. Yet, it took us a long time to set ourselves against it. We have finally faced the challenge and we took a journey to the times "Transkarpatia"'s texts talk about. It has been the journey to the feelings, thoughts and the then attitude towards the world.