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
Szervetlen
Thy Catafalque Lyrics
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szilárd rácsban szemcsés szövet,
tömeget alkot, gyûrõ, taposó
lassú anyag, szervetlen erõ.
Kavarog a táj, belekiabál,
belekalapál, hogy karikaesõben lenne
katicabogár, fekete madár,
De kristályrácsban kering az idõ.
(Ez a rend odabenn.
Konok, szigorú.
Csilló titkok metszik a formát,
hidegen ragyog a hatalmas éj.)
The lyrics to Thy Catafalque's song Szervetlen describe a landscape that is both solid and immobile yet chaotic and ever-changing. The first stanza uses scientific terms to paint a picture of a structured and cohesive system, made up of solid substances and inert forces. The second stanza introduces an element of erraticism, with the landscape seeming to flip between states of stability and disarray. The third and final stanza injects a note of mysticism, suggesting that there is an underlying order to this chaos, and that this order exists beyond our immediate perception.
Overall, the song seems to be exploring the tension between order and chaos in the natural world. It acknowledges the scientific principles that govern our perception of reality, but also recognizes that there are elements of the world that lie beyond our understanding. The use of metaphor and imagery creates a dreamlike quality that reflects the mysteriousness and complexity of the subject matter.
Line by Line Meaning
Hatszöges rendszer, lüktet a dolomit -
In the hexagonal system, the dolomite pulsates -
szilárd rácsban szemcsés szövet,
A grainy fabric in a solid lattice,
tömeget alkot, gyûrõ, taposó
Forms masses, folds, presses,
lassú anyag, szervetlen erõ.
Slow matter, inorganic force.
Kavarog a táj, belekiabál,
The landscape swirls, shouts,
belekalapál, hogy karikaesõben lenne
Hammering that it should be in a circle of rain,
katicabogár, fekete madár,
Ladybug, blackbird,
ide-oda jár, mállik a kõ a sötétben.
Moves back and forth, the stone crumbles in the dark.
De kristályrácsban kering az idõ.
But time circulates in a crystal lattice.
(Ez a rend odabenn.
(This order inside.
Konok, szigorú.
Stubborn, strict.
Csilló titkok metszik a formát,
Glittering secrets cut the form,
hidegen ragyog a hatalmas éj.)
The enormous night shines coldly.)
Contributed by Henry Y. Suggest a correction in the comments below.