Aghiatrias

Aghiatrias is a Czech duo consisting of composer and instrumentalist Vladimír Hirsch and sound engineer Tom Saivon formed in 1999 as an offshoot of their sympho-industrial band Skrol. Their music was based on an integration of dark ambient, ambient industrial and elements of contemporary classical music. The name "Aghiatrias" is the collocation of Greek words αγία (saint) and τριάς (trinity). They released five albums, occasionally performing live. The collaboration ended in 2007 as Hirsch concentrated on his solo efforts. In 2016, Aghiatrias reunited after 9 years, performing on various European festivals and starting work on the new album.

In autumn 1999, Vladimír Hirsch (composer, keyboards, samplers, drums, vocals, computer) and Tom Saivon (noise generators, samplers, computer, lyrics) joined their creative efforts in this project, seeking to combine contemporary classical music, dark ambient (Hirsch) and industrial/noise (Saivon). In their five years of existence, the band performed at a number of European festivals and a tour of North America, often in conjunction with Skrol. Singer Martina Sanollová (vocalist) appeared sometimes on Aghiatrias' recordings and live performances.

Aghiatrias recordings are conceptual in character. They were moving from a sombre ambient industrial character to power electronics, with an infiltration of modern classical composition and digitally manipulated instrumentation, which kind of work is called by Vladimír Hirsch "integrated musical form" or simply "integrated music". Their first album, self-released Field Mass (1999) were formally a classical opus, using standard liturgical elements with a simple central plot frameworkm. With their second album, Epidaemia vanitatis (Epidemic Of Vanity) from 2002, the duo continue in Hirsch's integration classical into dark ambient structures, powerful soundscapes between neo-classical and post-industrial. Their distinct sound is a confrontation between classical compositions and noise generators. The third album Regions Of Limen(2004) was a dark ambient album with the theme of subliminal perception, released on the Czech label Epidemie Records. The fourth album Ethos combined contemporary classical, dark-ambient, noise and industrial. In 2007, they released a compilation, Reliquary, of previously unreleased material.

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