Album "Fountain of Inspiration" feels appropriately holy and harrowing, eight cryptic processionals of keys, strings, sitar, backward whispers, and percussion, like hidden hymns for forbidden temples. Conceived as a suite of imaginary ancient Grecian compositions for organ and sampler, the songs thread the saga of a sacred Greek Spring and the nymph Castalia 

If the arcaded courtyard is the centre of Vienna University, then the Castalia fountain is its heart. It was created in 1910 by the sculptor Edmund Hellmer.

"I am Castalia, daughter of Achelous. My sleep is dreaming, my dream became knowledge." This inscription in Greek can be found on the right and left of the fountain's statue. Castalia, daughter of the river god Achelous - depicted here as a snake - is the nymph of the Castalian Spring at Delphi and is known to inspire poetry and wisdom. The spring water is supposed to provide those who listen to its babbling with inspiration and wisdom.

In Greek mythology, Castalia, pursued by Apollo, throws herself into the anointed spring at Delphi which has since borne her name. It is a relatively rare subject in the applied arts of the modern era but does feature in the fountain statue group by Antonio Ammanati for the Sala Grande in Palazzo Vecchio (1555-1563). In poetry, Castalia appears in Heinrich Heine's work for example.

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My sleep is dreaming, my dream became knowledge

Album "Fountain of Inspiration" feels appropriately holy and harrowing, eight cryptic processionals of keys, strings, sitar, backward whispers, and percussion, like hidden hymns for forbidden temples. Conceived as a suite of imaginary ancient Grecian compositions for organ and sampler, the songs thread the saga of a sacred Greek Spring where the nymph Castalia drowned while escaping Apollo, and where visitors to the Oracle of Delphi bathed before receiving prophecy. 

Castalian spring flows from the rock Fleboukos, which was called Yabeia during the ancient years and flows out at Pleistos valley. The waters of the spring reached through a pipe the fountain with the same name, which is located between the sanctuary of Apollo, where the Castalian Spring was dedicated during the ancient years, and at the ancient Gymnasium at Delphi.

https://andraljos.bandcamp.com/album/fountain-of-inspiration

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Spice routes album is musical visualisations of travel roads for different spices. 

Those sailors of England… Among all they have shipped around the world, star Anise is one of the most innocent goods. Unloaded on European soil in the 16th century for the first time, the 3000-year-old medicine and spice soon began to be traded along the Great Tea Route from China

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Star anise Rout

I moved one year ago on Christmas Eve. It's a magical time. This is my new project and track "eve". Happy holidays and take care of yourselfs. 2015

5 - "Shazdeh-ye Persis" available for order https://andraljos.bandcamp.com/album/shazdeh-ye-persis
4 - "Megalithic Statues of Vishapakar" is released on NotNotFun label and available for order https://andraljos.bandcamp.com/album/megalithic-statues-of-vishapakar
3 - "spice routes" is released on MUSIKIÍ label and available for order https://catalog.radijo-musikii.net/release/andra-ljos-spice-soutes
2 -  «fountain of inspiration» is released on NotNotFun label and available for order https://andraljos.bandcamp.com/album/fountain-of-inspiration
1 - «the oasis of little birds» is released on TEST FM label and available for order https://andraljos.bandcamp.com/album/the-oasis-of-little-birds

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