Ars Benevola Mater – Vladimír Hirsch “Missa Armata” / “Invocationes” CD

Vladimír Hirsch: MISSA ARMATA . INVOCATIONES

Missa Armata (1999) is based on standard liturgical elements. The album however avoids using verbal singing of appropriate text as it is not a Mass itself, but rather, a narrative about the communication between its contentand the listeners’ state of mind. Parallel to this, the album expresses a fictional war story, where adversaries are forced to participate in a worship together. The composition is strict and uncompromising, demonstrating a highly structured industrial sound combined with classical instrumentation and choirs, achingly electrifying noises and power-electronic force and energy. 

Invocationes (2001) is a cycle of 4 ritualistic musical prayers.  The project is – both thematically and in means of expression – significantly related to Missa Armata, but the overall character structurally aims more towards dark ambient. The compositions have a deep ambience with immersive emotional perceptions, without sparing any intensity and urgency. Listeners are drawn inside an introspective journey within a tempestous and submerged world together. 

Vladimír Hirsch – electronic keyboards, synthesizers, organ, vocal, integrated techniques

Tom Saivon – additional sounds

Martina Sanollová – vocals

Lyrics: St.Augustine, Raccolta (Enchiridion Indulgentiarum)

Mastered by Vojtěch Haňka

Cover photos & sleeve note above: Marianna Auster

Design by Vladimír Hirsch

Tracklist:

Missa Armata (43:11)

1 Introitus  (6:46)

2 Kyrie (4:45)

3 Gloria  (6:04)

4 Credo  (7:10)

5 Sanctus  (5:38)

6 Agnus Dei  (7:27)

7 Exodus  (5:21)

Invocationes (34:21)

8 Invocatio I  (7:37)

9 Invocatio II  (6:41)

10 Invocatio III  (8:19)

11 Invocatio IV (11:44)

©2012 Ars Benevola Mater, catalogue number ABM44, jewel case

Album video trailer on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waTh7ZW4UzU

Short previews of tracks on Last FM Radio:

http://www.last.fm/music/Vladim%C3%ADr+Hirsch/Missa+Armata+.+Invocationes

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