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Odeipus I - Would You Rule A Wrecked Kingdom

by Rendeece

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Plaintive voices, repeating one wail 02:57
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Hell drinks a toast to our drought 03:26
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All beat their bloodied wings west to the god of death 02:55
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Would you rule a wrecked kingdom 02:56
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Sphinx is singing no more for her human supper 03:11
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Dead man deserves justice 02:44

about

With the "Odeipus" series, Rendeece begins a new chapter that connects sound, theater and Tarot cards.

A journey that started with the five years explorations of the themes and atmosphere of Goethe’s Faust. The “project Faust” concluded its first cycle with the album “Project Faust I” and two audio-visual performances in Ioannina (Soundtrope Festival 2019) and Athens (Underflow Records, 2020), in collaboration with artist KROUTSEF.

2020 was the year of of Samuel Beckett’s play “Endgame”. A project emerged during the pandemic lockdowns. Rendeece explored the sounds of isolation (apartment recordings) and also connected Beckett’s play with Tarot cards (Tarot De Marseille) and Jodorowsky’s Psychomagia.

2021 started with one vital question out of Sophocles’ tragedy of Oedipus: “Would you rule a wrecked kingdom?”. A vital question, we could address to all our leaders letting austerity and injustice rule all people’s lives. Is their plan to rule a wrecked “kingdom”, destroyed societies or even a dead planet?

One of the main ideas is based on the anagram of Oedipus. The title "Odeipus" implies that this project is an ode. An ode to the archetypes of Sophocles’ play and the story of King Oedipus.

Above all, it’s a search of the play’s symbols and its "underflow" continuing Rendeece’s fascination for archetypes as represented in the Tarot cards. For Odeipus project, the starting point are the Tarot cards by Salvador Dali. Relevant article is presented at tarotheater.gr (in greek), a site where Rendeece (Vassilis Sardelis) presents his approach on the Tarot Cards as a tool for creativity and art.

The story of King Oedipus is undoubtedly existing in our collective unconscious. A man that killed one's father and married his mother. Upon realisation, his wife-mother Jocasta hangs herself, whereas, Oedipus commits the act of self-blinding.

In that tragic story, is there any space for cure? For therapy through our collective unconscious, of our deepest of traumas? By killing our parents in that symbolic/archetypical way, is it actually a path for a new life or even for deep transformation? A deep connection with our "Self"? Is the choice to stop seeing the present "reality" as we are used to and shift our vision to our inner darkness, a way of meditation, transcendence? That can actually change our perspective in this reality? Are all these a path for self-consciousness?

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released November 13, 2021

All track titles taken by Frank McGuinness version of Sophocles' "Oedipus".

Conceived and produced by Rendeece
Mastering @ Digging Sounds Studio
Artwork by Kostas Kosnetzof

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Theater, Tarot, Therapy

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