Anemone Tube - The Three Worlds - Allegory Of Vanity (c) 2017 The Epicurean Artist....: Anemone Tube Album.....: The Three Worlds - Allegory Of Vanity Source....: CD Tracks....: 5 Genre.....: Ambient Label.....: The Epicurean Encoder...: LAME 3.100 Quality...: 249 kbps / 441kHz / Joint Stereo URL.......: http://epicureanescapism.bandcamp.com Tracklist: ---------- 1. Ausweg 8:27 2. Primary Slave 9:06 3. Illusions 7:49 4. Asphyxiate 7:23 5. Imminence 7:34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 40:19 Total:75.78 MB / 40:19 Release Notes: -------------- Far reaching pleasures will be at hand û Anemone Tube reveals a series of three CDs entitled ôThe Three Worlds: Allegory of Vanity / Forget Heaven / Vanity of Allegoryö, referencing a cosmological treatise on the universe from the Theravada Buddhism of the 14th century, the subject matter of which is the description of three levels of existence of all beings and mythical creatures. This extensive retrospective release contains selected tracks from various tapes released between 1997 and 1999 - mostly rare and unavailable today - as well as yet unreleased tracks recorded between 1997 and 2013, a.o. outtakes from the ôDeath Over Chinaö recordings, handpicked and recontextualized by Anemone Tube, representing the projectÆs roughest and most atmospheric material up to date, ranging from depressive ritual experimental ambient over dark rhythmic industrial soundscapes to whirlwind noise. Sharply mastered by Hunter Barr for a powerful, contemporary sound, each CD comes in a 6-panel digifile featuring beautiful photography by Dario Lehner. ôThe Three Worldsö is a work about transience on many levels, perfectly elucidated in the Buddhist Sutra ôFar Reaching Pleasuresö, ôThe three worlds are transient like clouds in autumn / Birth and death of all beings unfold like a dance / Their lives rush away like a mountain stream / Vanish like lightning in the skyö, which serves as the contextual framework for the CD series and is translated in the most beautiful and poetic fashion with three painstakingly arranged photographic scenes based on vanitas symbolism of old mastersÆ paintings. The still life composition of the ôAllegory of Vanityö cover references an abundance of those symbols: jewellery, a pocket watch, a catholic hymnal, skull and bones, withered flowers, a tipped over jug of wine, an extinguished candle, etc. Two collaboration tracks with Yggdrasil from 1997, two from the ôAllegories for the Futureö cassette and an unreleased track from 1998 are a perfect representation of Anemone TubeÆs early old-school industrial / power-electronics phase, and yet proof that both the musical approach and the topical background were already fully developed at that stage.