WANDERER
WANDERER
project was created in the summer of 2003 by two participants known as
Mysterion and Dragonheart. The basis for their joint creativity was
their common ideas and expeditions to the ancient natural monuments
which embodied the burden of the bygone centuries, and whose secrets
were not always and willingly unveiled at once, but unveiled in any
way. During these expeditions the project concept was also discussed.
Both participants already had their own bands and sufficient experience
in musical activities at the moment of WANDERER’s creation. Therefore,
as soon as the image of the project was created, they set to work
without delay.
In 2004 the band recorded the first album «Bypassing The Abyss», which
was released later by Magik Art (Russia). Composing and recording of
the album took 3 months of summer and 2 months of autumn of 2003, the
rest of the time was taken looking for a label. Many interesting facts
concern the album recording and releasing. The drums were recorded in
the apartment on the third floor of a five-storey house to the "joy" of
neighbors and residents of the house across the street. The drums
furiously roared day by day till the moment when all tracks were
recorded. Inhabitants of the house, probably, also sighed with relief
when the record session finished, but it was in vain: it was just the
beginning.
Mysterion trained his vocal skills in the forest, where he also enjoyed
to paint his pictures. When he sang - cut-glass ware danced on the
shelves of a pub. Namely in that moment some troubles occurred, and
this fact almost affected the fate of the album - unexpected problems
with health overtook the vocalist. Heroic libations before the
recording stood as an anesthetic agent and allowed overcoming the
troubles till the day, when the last track was recorded. Thus, without
looking at vicissitudes of life, the album was ready. However, on the
way to the label via snail mail, the master-CD was scratched, and was
delivered for replication with defects in the form of clicks. Soon
after the issue of this album the label collapsed, and the album didn't
get any wide distribution and attention.
The album’s main idea and lyrics concern the greatness of the Nature
and perfection of the space towering above the human being and his
household society, consisting of "obsession with flashy things" and
aspirations for material values. The album also concerns the theory of
the alternative history, as the project’s both participants are keen on
their researches. It should be noted that separate fragments of vocal
parts were recoded in the woods and caves of Slavyanogorsk (Ukraine),
with use of natural cave reverberation (and natural wood compression).
The album’s re-release through Dunkelheit Produktionen (Germany)
essentially wins Magik Art’s release not only owing to the absence of
clicks, but also due to the fact that in 2008 the master copy not
subject to any mechanical impacts, was carefully re-mastered, and
thanks to it the album found brighter and more saturated sounding. The
new format of the edition is a digipak with 12-page booklet including
Mysterion’s original pictures and art editing of the known Russian
designer Al.Ex {Mayhem Project}, so the new edition doesn't come within
miles of the original release !
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Discography
Live
in the Fog
Black Dragon Records, MC, 2004
(By)Passing the Abyss
Magik Art, CD, 2005
Depressive Illusions, MC, 2011
Dunkelheit Produktionen,
DIGIPACK CD, 2012
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