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
Panta rhei
Thy Catafalque Lyrics
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Flowing stream, figures drawn which hold fast.
Between this reality of life and the scientific
Intellect there appears to be no possibility of
Comprehension, for the concept sunders what is
To be unified in the flow of life. The concept
Represents something which is universally and eternally valid, independent of the mind which
Propounds it. But the flow of life is at all points
In the night I swim like in dead water
Petrified lure is the moon
And the silence drives nails into my throat
Immense wisdom in this mute ocean
Flowing through the ditches of time
A substance insubstantial
In the night I swim like in dead water
But aridity's building a mountain in my heart
Darkness is drifting
Sweeping me away with the mire
A brick I would be
In the wall of an old house
Only to see and not to feel
The times desiccated by winter
Only to see and not to feel
The opening lines of Thy Catafalque's "Panta rhei" invoke the image of lines being drawn in a flowing stream - a metaphor for the tension between the constant flux of life and the attempt to capture or comprehend it through scientific understanding. The song's lyrics seem to suggest that these two ways of perceiving reality are irreconcilable - the scientific concept represents something universally valid and independent of the individual mind, while the flow of life is unique and ever-changing. The singer seems to be caught in the middle of this dichotomy, with the "petrified lure" of the moon and the "silent" night creating a sense of stasis, while the "substance insubstantial" of the ocean and the "aridity" building in their heart suggest a kind of internal restlessness.
As the song progresses, the singer's sense of unease grows more intense. The "darkness" is "sweeping" them away, and they long to be like a "brick in the wall of an old house," to "see and not feel" the desiccation of time. This image suggests a desire for escape from the burdens of individual experience, to become part of something larger and more enduring. However, the final line, "Only to see and not to feel," is ambivalent - it may represent a genuine wish for release, or a resignation to the impossibility of transcendence.
Overall, "Panta rhei" seems to grapple with the fundamental human struggle to navigate the tension between the ephemeral and the eternal, the individual and the universal.
Line by Line Meaning
It is as if lines have to be drawn in a continually Flowing stream, figures drawn which hold fast
Life seems to require steadfastness and a consistent plan amidst the constantly moving current, like drawing figures on a rapidly flowing stream
Between this reality of life and the scientific Intellect there appears to be no possibility of Comprehension, for the concept sunders what is To be unified in the flow of life
The unyielding scientific mindset does not allow for the fluid and ever-changing nature of life, leading to a lack of comprehension and unification
The concept Represents something which is universally and eternally valid, independent of the mind which Propounds it
Concepts are seen as being universally valid and not tied to individual perspectives or beliefs
But the flow of life is at all points Unique, every wave in it arises and passes
Contrasting the universal nature of concepts, life is seen as being unique and constantly changing
In the night I swim like in dead water Petrified lure is the moon And the silence drives nails into my throat
The night feels stagnant and lifeless, with the moon's hypnotic pull leaving one feeling trapped and suffocated in the oppressive silence
Immense wisdom in this mute ocean Flowing through the ditches of time A substance insubstantial
There is wisdom to be found in the ever-flowing current of time, despite its intangible and elusive nature
But aridity's building a mountain in my heart Darkness is drifting Sweeping me away with the mire
Despite the wisdom to be found, a sense of desolation and overwhelming darkness threatens to engulf the singer
A brick I would be In the wall of an old house Only to see and not to feel The times desiccated by winter Only to see and not to feel
The artist wishes to feel detached and uninvolved, like a brick in a wall, in order to escape the oppressive feeling of isolation and emotional pain that comes with engaging too deeply in life
Contributed by Joshua J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
raffanon
This is amazing
Gabriel Hideg
A 2001-es esemeny megrazo volt, de a Microcosmos album hatalmas inspiraciot adott mielott meg barmi hangszert is kezbe vettem volna.
"Everything flows..
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
doubterist
Több, mint jó!