Zefiro Torna

O, Monde aveugle! Songs for the Apocalypse

Our time can be considered as a converging and ending point of numerous time cycles. The Mayan calendar as well as the biblical and the alchemist’s one point 2012 out as the year of the Apocalypse and the time of prophecies. ‘O, Monde aveugle’, from the Belgian vocal-instrumental ensemble Zefiro Torna, depicts man in his blind fear of the unknown, confronted with a profound sense of moral turmoil. The beast in man is revealed and his destructive nature surfaces, he is lead by the uncanny comical and obscene. The confrontation with his self sets off a shift of consciousness, a transformation leading to a new age, with an exit towards new energies.
Recorded: 8.7.2012, Ljubljana, National Museum of Slovenia

Zefiro Torna (BE): Els Van Laethem (soprano, trombone, marine trumpet, compositions), Jowan Merckx (recorders, alto crumhorn, flügelhorn, percussion, vocals), Philippe Laloy (soprano saxophone, crumhorn, bass flute), Gwen Cresens (bandoneon, accordion, compositions), Vincent Noiret (double bass), Jurgen De Bruyn (lutes, vocal, artistic direction)