Throughout the passing years the music became more and more experimental with deep touches of electronic and folklorish influences feeding from their homeland in Central Europe. Meanwhile KaOtic Productions ceased to exist, so the third album Tűnő Idő Tárlat (An Exhibition of Vanishing Time) came to sunlight as a self-financed production in 2004. By this time lyrics turned into Hungarian and music turned out to be the most diverse and atmospheric experimentum coming out from the band. Cosmic music from micro to macro, from matter to spirit and then back into the ashes.
This world is about to be painted by more vivid colours in the latest release entitled Róka Hasa Rádió released by Epidemie Records on the 12th of May, 2009 and in November 2009 by Soyuz Music. The main concept behind the album is the relationship between the ever evolving, solid and massive physical matter and the fragileness of human and all living spirits throughout distant childhood memories and scientific explanations of nature. Revolving, rotating movements of past and future, colours, sounds, long lost scents by a strange transmission from a timeless radio.
After the very well appreciated Róka Hasa Rádió album, in 2010 Epidemie Records decided to print a re-issue of previous recording of Thy Catafalque entitled Tűnő Idő Tárlat. It was originally released by the band itself in 2004 in a very small scale. Limited to 500 pieces of beautful digipak, the music is untouched while the artwork is renewed.
In 2011 Thy Catafalque signed to Season Of Mist. The fifth album entitled Rengeteg was released on 11 November 2011 in Europe and 10 January 2012 in North-America. All the instruments have been reccorded by Tamás Kátai alone this time, as János Juhász left the band in 2011. Guest musicians: Attila Bakos (Woodland Choir, Taranis) - all clean male vocals, Ágnes Tóth (The Moon And The Nightspirit) - female vocals, Mihály Simkó-Várnagy - cello.
In October, 2015 Season Of Mist releases the band's sixth album, Sgùrr in vinyl and 36-page digibook CD.
In November, 2015 Blood Music re-releases Cor Cordium (Demo), Sublunary Tragedies and Microcosmos as The Early Works in 3xCD and limited vinyl box-set edition.
Line up:
Tamás Kátai - vocals, keyboards, guitar bass, programming (Gire, Nebron, Darklight, Gort, Towards Rusted Soil)
Discography:
1999 Cor Cordium (demo)
1999 Sublunary Tragedies
2001 Microcosmos
2004 Tűnő Idő Tárlat
2009 Róka Hasa Rádió
2011 Rengeteg
2015 Sgùrr
2016 Meta
2018 Geometria
2020 Naiv
2021 Vadak
A valóság kazamatái
Thy Catafalque Lyrics
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Számtalan színekbe menekülsz:
Az öszbe, a kodbe belevegyülsz.
Állat vagy, felnézel, menekülsz,
A valóság tüzel rad, menekülsz,
álomba álomból lemerülsz.
Messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire,
Messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire.
In Thy Catafalque's song A valóság kazamatái, the singer speaks to someone who is escaping reality by hiding in colorless numbers or countless colors. The escape is a futile attempt to avoid the truth, but in doing so, they fall deeper into the void. The singer describes this person as an animal who looks up and flees from reality, but reality only burns hotter in their mind, and they eventually become lost in a dream within a dream.
These lyrics suggest that escapism is not the answer to reality but only intensifies the problem. By hiding in numbers or colors, the person is attempting to dull the sharp edges of reality, but in doing so, they are only becoming more lost. The repeated use of "messzire" which means "far away" in English, suggests that this person has been running from reality for a long time, but the only direction they are going is farther away from the truth.
Line by Line Meaning
Színtelen számokba menekülsz,
You escape into colorless numbers,
Számtalan színekbe menekülsz:
You escape into countless colors:
Az öszbe, a kodbe belevegyülsz.
You immerse yourself in chaos and confusion.
Állat vagy, felnézel, menekülsz,
You are an animal, you look up, you escape,
A valóság tüzel rad, menekülsz,
Reality burns you, you escape,
álomba álomból lemerülsz.
You sink from dream to dream in slumber.
Messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire,
Far, far, far, far, far, far, far,
Messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire,
Far, far, far, far,
Messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire, messzire.
Far, far, far, far, far.
Contributed by Isabelle V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.