Fred Vanterra – Mythanien (12/2019)
Stats
- Type: Music Album
- Genre: Classical Music
- Release Date: 13.12.2019
- Label: Vanterra Arts
- Copyright: All tracks have been composed and performed by Frederik “Fred Vanterra” Schrader.
Tracklist
- Mythanien | 3:21 | *2002
- Taama | 2:26 | *2009
- Amry | 4:18 | *2003
- Firnya | 2:19 | *2000
- Kuha Baza | 3:53 | *2006
- Nemul | 2:02 | *2009
- Maryat | 2:24 | *2010
- Enjar | 3:22 | *2010
- Casoley | 4:19 | *2001
- Tahara | 2:54 | *2006
- Stalaga | 2:53 | *2003
- Crystarcis | 2:32 | *2006
- Castelle | 4:03 | *2015
©2000-2019 Frederik “Fred Vanterra” Schrader
Press
In every case, the completed project showcases a musician at the top of his game with a clearly versatile, uninhibited approach to playing, which covers a vast arena of angles.
Rebecca Cullen, Stereostickman
A stunning collection of emotional piano compositions with a focus on creating lush melodies, astonishing textures, and great production aesthetics.
The Band Camp Diaries
This album ‘Mythanien’ – is a masterpiece in every way, shape, and form
Freshoutofthebooth.com
This opus is the definition of REAL music, the one going straight to your heart.
The Further
A beautiful dazzling display of soul and talent.
Entropy
Fred Vanterra about “Mythanien”
In 1999, I created a fantasy world called Mythanien, which, to this day, has given rise to countless stories, characters, languages, places, maps, and, of course, music.
This album is nothing more and nothing less than the soundtrack of this world, a musical journey through Mythanien, a companion to the story I hope to one day publish as a book. Each song title represents a place in this world, with the first track, Mythanien, telling the story of its creation.
In the beginning, there was light. A small orb of light, so tiny that one could not have seen it with the naked eye if not for the pure white, radiant light of life that flickered, trembled, swirled, and stormed inside it. It fell silently in the stillness and without the slightest breath of wind into the darkness of Mythanien…
– From Fred Vanterra – Stories from Mythanien
The real journey then begins at the Taama, a river in the Elven Forest, which has always symbolized origin and renewal. It flows toward Amry, the city with two sides, whose dark core is hidden by its radiant façade. The story takes us further to Firnya, the northernmost city of the known world, the gateway to the Firn Forest. There stand the Kuha Baza, the life trees of the ice trolls, who live their bleak existence in underground caves. But if you cross the ice desert, you reach Nemul, the “City of the Dead,” where the forgotten and the outcasts celebrate life in a harbor tavern.
The air smelled of sweet mead, sour wine, spicy beer, bloody meat, and stinking fish. Sweat evaporated in the stuffy air, which was clouded by the smoke of fireplace fires and tobacco pipes.
– From Fred Vanterra – Stories from Mythanien
From there, we sail along the northwestern coast of Mythanien, and after a long journey, we reach Maryat, the vibrant, cosmopolitan city of two rivers, a stopover on our way to the real destination, Enjar, the secret island in the Evening Sea, where a mystical being opens our eyes for the next leg of our journey. This takes us to Casoley, the Fairy Cliffs, bathed in the never-setting western evening sun. From there, we rise gently in the flight of birds over the Tahara, the healing river, which leads us deeper inland again. Its source lies in Stalaga, a cave system beneath the “Crystal Ridge,” atop which stands the Ice Palace Crystarcis, the scene of the grand finale. And Castelle is, in a way, the credits of the journey.