ABOUT THE CONCEPT:
Inspired by the comedy "The Imaginary Sick" (Le malade imaginaire) by Moliere (1673). "Virtus Dormitiva" is a notion that appears in the mentioned work, when a character is asked to explain why opium causes sleep, to which the character responds that opium contains a "dormitive principle" (virtus dormitiva) that it is the origin of its ability to provoke sleep.
I take the expression "Virtus Dormitiva" as a metaphor to define the state of continuous sleepiness in which we find ourselves submerged.
The unification of the masses under what is called "common sense."
"Common sense" is like a giant wave that crushes individualities and in its wake leaves a uniform mass, generic and dead in ideas and passions.
Self-censorship, denial of logical reasoning. (Anything that is outside that "common sense" is classified as conspiracy theory and invalidated without question).
This state of drowsiness generated by everyday life, day-to-day worries, fatigue, monotony ... numb our mind.
The pressure of Social mandates (what is expected of us).
Obligations (work, subsistence).
The feeling that we have to be super productive all the time (self-slavery).
The reduction of the ability to focus on one thing at a time, which decreases reasoning ability, focus, and understanding.
The media mixing news with entertainment, constantly bombarding with the same topics (creating and imposing the "common sense").
The control exercised by fear.
The judgment of the other, the condemnation of the other.
The fear of waking up, the fear of the truth.
The comfort of living in a lie.
Selective empathy.
The manipulation.
The censorship and self-censorship.
The repression and self-repression.

Upon Shadows - Virtus Dormitiva (Single 2021)

I did this track processing only  the sound I get from different crystal glasses. The idea came out because the TV Show Voces Anónimas was needing a track to give ambience to a story about the play spirit of the glass.

101. Harmony of crystal glasses.

This is a track I did for the TV Show Voces Anónimas.

TRACK FOR VOCES ANÓNIMAS - COD 220113 A

DARK WALTZ SPIRIT

AD NOCTUM PROJECT - Winter Landscape
Humberto Escobedo - all music
Tamara Picardo - all voices

AD NOCTUM PROJECT - winter landscape - all vocals

ASBEL - Sweet Darkness ( instrumental Keys ) by Tamara Picardo 
- album - The Dark... The Withered... 2010
"The Dark... The Withered... " can be ordered at SALUTE RECORDS


Asbel  - Sweet Darkness  - instrumental keyboard

Ad Noctum Project :

Lord HES - All Instruments
Tamara Picardo - Vocals

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Ad Noctum Project " Mother Moon"

Tormento by Tamara Picardo

Upon Shadows "Dark Ambient Sounds & Textures Vol 1"
(1 hour 11 min. track ).Release date : 27 May 2012
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Upon Shadows - Dark Ambient Sounds & Textures Vol 1

Just a Nocturnal Piece ...
(me on guitar and voices).

Nocturnal Piece

 Upon Shadows  "Our Sadness"  from the album 7 Chapters (2012),    
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Upon Shadows - Our Sadness

From the album " 7 Chapters " (2012).
free download MP3 : http://www.mediafire.com/?hoa1df1i6ce1iqo
All the info to order the physical copy
on the note below :
https://www.facebook.com/notes/tamara-picardo-official/upon-shadows-orders/370580799690104
Thank you very much !!! \m/-l-\m/

Upon Shadows - Alchemy Of Suffering

Musician/songwriter
(keyboard, guitar, voices, drums and programing).

BANDS:

Upon Shadows (all music, lyrics and art design). Dark Metal

Voces Anònimas ( TV Show - Uruguay ).
(musical production)

MARKHOR (Swiss/Swedish/Uruguayan black metal) - vocals.

Ad Noctum Project (Chle) vocals.

Participations :

Asbel (Colombia) "The Dark...The Whitered..." 2010
Keyboards an voices on tracks : "Sweet Darkness " and " Solar Breeze "

Beltane (New Zeland)
"Auld Toby" 2011 (Keyboards on some tracks).
"Anode To Leviathan" 2011 (keyboars keyboards on some tracks).

Throne of Malediction (Usa)
"Born of Innocence" 2011 (keyboards and some whispers).

Valkynaz
"Endlich Allein" 2011 (vocals).

Past bands :

Eclampsy (Uruguay)
keyboardist (1995 - 2002 ).

Upon Shadows discography:

Tragic Prelude - Single 2011
Tenebre - EP 2011
Only Keys And Whispers - 2011 Released by SATANICA PRODUCTIONS (NZ)
Melodies In Grey Scale - 2011 Released by SATANICA PRODUCTIONS (NZ)
The Huge Circle Of Time - 2009
Upon Shadows - 2003

Personal music page : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tamara-Picardo-Official/126585144089672

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