The
„band” (or, it is rather correct to say: the project), in the
course of the years, has drifted to the brink of being formed
at several times… however, it always seemed necessary to be put
off. Maybe it is for ever this way. Moreover, it may be better
in this way; half-way on the verge of existence and non-existence,
but always loitering in the imagination; but never really realized.
And this all may also be not true. (Though the half of it may
be so, too!) What is sure: we never aimed to play in this name
(in a concert etc.); but, then, for what…?
It
is rather like a collective noun as a matter of fact, I think.
The Hungarian word Isten Nyila can have more symbolic
meanings. In the first place, it is a popular and literary expression
for lightning and thunderbolt (in a literal translation it means
„The Arrow of the God”); so is an oath; a curse. It also means
the vulgar electricity. Originally, the name was invented to be
the name of our shaman drum circle, which was founded by Tamas
Paulinyi, together with (and also as a part of) his Synthesis
Free University in Budapest in 1997. But, unfortunately, the majority
of the members didn’t like this name. So thus we threw it off,
together with a lot of other names… (For example: Compared With
Us; Our Best; Living Animal or Live-Stock; Eryngo; Sky Horses;
etc. – nevertheless, all these funny expressions would probably
come back as some titles of tracks or songs later…) Since we couldn’t
really agree on any other highly effective and correct name, the
very fantastic „Synthesis Shaman Drum Circle” stuck as the final
version up to the present day. However, there were always some
experimental attempts and endeavours, that were out of the original
conception more or less, or trying to combine with other elements,
which couldn’t really be put into our other boxes running under
other names; so this name is used for the collection of all of
these exceptions. For example, a bunch of Ritual Theatre movements
built around my Season Drums since 2001, from which we presented
a small performance in the Pataky and PeCsa in 2003 and 2004 (called
the Dancing Shaman Drums). Or, I range my own, personal
song-writing attempts to here, too. All our other bands (the Shaman
Circle, Kiyo-Kito, Stonehenge) are commonly characterized by the
live and acoustic sound built on collective drumming – the sound
of some electric, and, moreover, electronic instruments cannot
really be fit into this: the Isten Nyila name (recalling
electricity as a symbolic and mythologic thunder) is meant to
refer to this difference by intention mostly. (The same expression
– in another interpretation – could be applied to the thundering
taiko drumming, too; as done in the „Rolling Thunder” name for
example – in the taiko.com
international website.) For the time being, there is not too many
results of this, ready and finished; this all rather is a heap
of virtual plans. But – step by step – something may still be
born of that…
I
usually don’t like to publish semi-manufactured initiatives and
germs. I still uploaded only one little demo, not as a whole track
of full value (as it is not that, of course), but only as a matter
of curiosity. Because the only thing that sounds in it, is the
thirty years old sound-chip of the C64 (the SID, and moreover,
four of that), and also set to one certain tone (yes, this is
the demo of that tone). When I acquired my HardSID 4U synth, I
tested its voice with this funny little project. (However, it
is not a raw and direct SID tone, but is strongly effected with
my favourite effects from the UAD-1 DSP-card, for example Plate
140, RE-201, 88RS and Moog Filter on nearly all tracks of that…
And those tracks were also re-recorded many times, then layered
together; so thus you won’t be sure to recognize what you hear
exactly; but it is interesting as an experiment at least.)
Unfortunately,
in the meantime, the idea of the name spreaded on the internet,
and nowadays a lot of dudes have begun to use it (the google search
had hardly got a few results of this some years ago). But I don’t
mind; even this thing will never change me anyway.
Robert
Olessak (2010)
Season
Drums
07/11/2011
Drums
of Damocles
Retro
Photos
07/24/2011
My
own, personal retro photo album (40
pictures)
Aachen
07/03/2011
The
performance in Aachen (18
pictures)
Our
Bands brochure (2010)
07/07/2011
Our
Bands brochure (Kiyo-Kito, Synthesis and Stonehenge) (0.3
MB)