PHANATOS - Introduction

This is the official site of the Swedish composer/musician/artist known as Phanatos.
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The formation of Phanatos was initiated somewhere in 1999 and 2000, when the first musical ideas in this shape began to take its form.

The idea was to create something reflecting Phanatos’ emotions; dark, yet with a romantic touch; with melancholy yet with desire.
After some embryonic musical formations the entity of Part I – III started to take form, and was continued worked on in 2000 and 2001, to reach their completion in 2001. Then the uncountable hours of effort, lust, and realization of the composing and recording process finally reached its ultimate objective. From the very most inner, and dark corners of the mind of Phanatos, this expression had been captured. Performed with synths and featuring a gothic/neo-classical by fallen angel(s) touched creation. Inspiration from gothic metal, classical- and film music, and ambient/darkwave, yet with the very own personal style of Phanatos.

With a base of strings and piano sounds and also a quite doom/gothic-influenced drum track style. And also featuring a twin flute concept, with two flutes (sounds) playing different melody parts but yet creating an entirety. This flute “concept” can be found especially here and there in Part I – III, but will also return in some places in the succeeding parts of this larger opus unofficially known as Opus 1…

Because after having finished the Part I – III, the idea and emotional and artistic incitement came, to continue this musical expressive journey that had been commenced, and creating more parts in the same style (regarding the choice of “instrumentation set” and expressional style). The idea and concept of the continuing three parts, Part IV – VI did not wait too long for itself. Picking up the threads where the first three parts had ended and now presenting a (for Phanatos) natural continuation of this musical journey, or emotional wanderings, you might wanna call it.

Like with Part I – III, or maybe even more, Part IV – VI features much influences from film music and films, as well as classical music.

And on these parts you can for the first time here the voice of Phanatos, in the shape of spoken words on “Part V”. And Part IV and VI also feature vocals, sung parts, performed by singer Karin Ljungberg.

Now the idea of this opus was to create a work consisting of totally nine parts, and with that, the formation/composing and ideas-spawning was commenced for the continuing three parts. Which were to become the finishing three parts and symbolizing/representing the closure, the completion of this opus. Both “music term technically” but also being the closure to the personal emotional journey that this opus was created as. Like the ending chapter of an extensive book, written with the heart-soiled musical themes and expressions and a mind-full manifest of different emotions, desires and un-desires.

The last three parts (logically) known as Part VII – IX was created between 2003 and 2005; and now features some singing by Phanatos. And “recitation” of own words/poetry. And the music having progressed although still lurking within the frames of the concept of this opus as an entity.

As always a mixture of filmic moods and “musical spheres”, and classical influences soulfully exclaimed, over all a very gothic feel to it, in the true sense of the word when it comes to literature or music.

The completion of this opus “Part I – IX”, was a very pleasant and rewarding emotional experience for Phanatos. To feel something that had been worked on for so long; so much compositional effort, so very much emotions, and such a long, regardig time – project now was finished; completed. To come to an end with such project, AND knowing that what has been created is exactly what you intended to create (through thousands of the creator’s artistic conscious and even sometime unconscious “choices”), knowing that the emotions and vast effort behind every melody, every theme, every composition overall is your own expression, and what you and your heart and mind had intent to express, for yourself primary but also for the outside world. THAT is the core of artistic expression, at least for Phanatos…

That is why he created this extensive time-spanning and “emotion-spanning” opus……

….and that is why he now continues with the realization of his SECOND extensive opus!!

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