photo by Stefan Keller & Hesperus
program1. Balance | 2. Proximity of time (what is will be) | 3. The shaman
4. Dialog | 5. Behind the veils of joy | 6. Sculptura |
hesperus live 2023Hesperus Live is a solo performance in front of a video-projection. Samples, guitar and cymbel will complement the program. Onscreen reflections by Joseph Beuys, Carl Jung and Fritz Perls.
Hesperus Live is a cinematic experience. It distinguishes itself from the standard rock performance by bringing the video to the front as being of equal importance as the live performer who interacts and plays along with the video. This makes it possible to create a very precise connection between image and sound. All music written, performed and produced by Hesperus. Video and stills shot by Hesperus, as well as handpicked from The Prehlinger Archives and Pixabay. Editing, sample sound and voice-recordings by Hesperus. Approx time of the program 45 min. |
The video presents men dealing with the modern hyperworld, through art, spiritual concepts and science. Confused by the knowledge of self and born naked in an indifferent universe, we seek for control, understanding and love, in order to withstand our selfdestructive and dualistic nature. To be human seems a purely mental concept, God a creative reflection to cope with conscience, and language a means to communicate ideas and feelings, or manipulate to seek power over others. Although the reflections of Jung, Perls and Beuys are long forgotten, they are still current and evidence of their understanding of the difficulties inherent to being human, as well as timeless values.
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2023 newly mixed and remastered versions of both albums out now!
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Voices: Yuma Funai (Japan, ballerina)
Edward Horsman (GB, Conservatory Amsterdam) Leya Broekman (NL, my lovely daughter) prof. R.W. Broekman (NL, my grandfather) dr. Jelle van Baardewijk (NL, Philosopher) |
Hesperus - Death of my Dear Demons (©2019/2023)
Genesis 6:49 1. Genesis 2. Darcropolis I 3. Ein Mensch gewesen 4. Darcropolis II 5. Mountain 6. Compassion Death of my dear demons 11:00 7. Foreboding sentinals 8. Malevolence I 9. Isolation 10. Malevolance II 11. Hermeneutic circle 12. The black storm 13. Death Observing the hyperworld 13:10 14. Transcending reality 15. A cell of space 16. Into the virtual 17. Into the light 18. Into the black 19. Into nothingness Reconsideration 7:49 20. God 21. A mystery 22. Reconsideration (guitar solo) 23. Enzymes of time 24. Awakening - REVIEW WIngs Of Death magazine by Chris van der Aa: "Hesperus is exciting, unexpected, far from predictable. Music with deep content, a story, well thought out, technically a strong performance and well produced. I experience a huge attraction and curiosity." - REVIEW DPRP magazine by Colum Gibson: "I would absolutely suggest you pick this album up. It is one of the best I've heard this year! The opening track, Genesis is a phenomenal instrumental of melodic and symphonic doom. The title track makes me think of a mix of early Sepultura and the Master Of Puppets era of Metallica, but heavier and better written. Observinge The Hyperworld is like sorrowful sounds of doom metal, but with a superb load of soloing thrown in. Finally we have the closer Reconsideration. A fantastic closing track, filled to the brim with emotion, riffing and solos. It sounds like a summary of all that has come before and it works so well." - REVIEW Everything-is-noise magazine by Robert Miklo: "Death of my dear demons is a powerful record which showcases a standout vision of how music is or should be made. It’s as if we’re witnessing the aural incarnation of one of the inner most processes we go through, the process of evolution in which we destroy or tame our demons." Hesperus - Death of my dear demons CD - bol.com Hesperus - Death of my dear demons - Spotify Hesperus - Death of my dear demons - Apple Music Hesperus - Bandcamp Hesperus - YouTube Written, produced and performed by Hesperus
Distributed on Apple Music & Spotify by Sepulchral Silence (Spain) Black Heaven Productions 002 ©2019/2023 |
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Hesperus - Crepuscular Rays (©2017/2023)
1 Om Ah Hum 8:36 2 Crepuscular Rays 8:31 3 Black Heaven 6:35 4 Enoch 10:48 5 Aleppo 05:30 1 Om Ah Hum
The overture of the album. Introduction of the grand guitars. Drums stumbling around, in search of a rhythm, an affiliation, a destiny, all under the watchful eyes of the gods from the mountain. The mantra Om Ah Hum, repeated three times, is commonly used at the end of a meditation. Om is the primal vibration out of which all things came forth. Ah is the symbol of the primal state of the spirit. Hum is the descent from universality (Om) into the human heart. 2 Crepuscular Rays Rain. Thunder. Guitar swells. The harbinger of things to come. A small village near the sea. Impressive sails on the horizon. Men with polished swords. The villagers know they don’t stand a chance. But they know who will wind up in hell. After the slaughter, through the rays in the sky, the souls of the villagers reach the sparkling beauty of the entrance of the heavens that await them. 3 Black Heaven Through the crepuscular rays in the sky, also known as Jacob’s ladder, one reaches the heavens. One of them is Black Heaven. And as we know, black is beautiful. But it takes a winter and a storm before the entrance opens up. 4 Enoch ‘Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him’. The book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish religious work. Enoch learned about the stars and the planets when visiting heaven under the guidance of the archangel Uriel. In a world of evil and impurity brought to humanity by the fallen angels, before the biblical flood, Enoch stayed righteous. And so God took him. 5 Aleppo Syrian war, nothing but sadness... Hesperus - Crepuscular Rays CD - bol.com Hesperus - Crepuscular Rays - Spotify Hesperus - Crepuscular Rays - Apple Music Hesperus - Bandcamp Hesperus - YouTube Written, produced and performed by Hesperus
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About the name hesperus...
Hesperus brings all things back
Which the daylight made us lack, Brings the sheep and goats to rest, Brings the baby to the breast. (Edwin Arnold, 1869) Hesper, thou bringest back again All that the gaudy daybeams part The sheep the goat back to their pen, The child home to the mother's heart. (Frederick Tennyson, 1890) Evening, all things thou bringest
Which dawn spread apart from each other; The lamb and the kid thou bringest, Thou bringest the boy to his mother. (J.A Symonds, 1883) Hesper, whom the poet called the Bringer home of all good things. (Frederick Tennyson, 1886) |
This painting by Evelyn de Morgan depicts the Greek gods Phosphorus and Hesperus. Phosphorus - Eosphoro, Lucifer - and Hesperus - Hesperos, Vesper - are brothers, sons of the rosy fingered goddess of dawn, Aurora (Eos, Dawn). Phosphorus is the planet Venus when it appears as the morning star. Hesperus is the planet Venus when it appears as the evening star. The early Greeks believed these to be two distinct astronomical bodies and assigned two distinct deities to the planet as it appeared respectively in the morning and evening. The later Greeks adopted the Babylonian view that the morning and evening star were a single wandering star and associated it with the goddess Aphrodite (Venus). Like the goddess Venus and the stars themselves, Phosphorus and Hesperus are eternally young and beautiful. Only their mother Eos (Dawn) and her sister and brother, Selene (the moon) and Helios (the Sun), shine more brightly in the heavens. It is Phosphorus, the bringer of light, who wakes his mother Eos from her sleep in the depths of the sea each morning and ushers in the dawn. It is Hesperus who ushers in the evening at dusk. Hesperus brings all good things home at the end of the day. He is the god of the hearth and domestic happiness. One might curse Phosphorus when getting up in the morning to go to work and bless Hesperus in the evening when returning to the comfort of home. Evening, thou that bringest all that bright morning scattered; thou bringest the sheep, the goat, the child back to her mother. - Sappho |
