Il Castello di Atlante | en

Atlanter washed over Norway like a monster wave in 2013. Their debut album, Vidde, became a favourite among both record buyers and critics, with its beautiful and natural mix of African desert blues, American delta blues and German “motorik” from the 70s. “Vidde blues” was a new and self-made term at that time - a term that summed up the quartet’s wish of uniting music from several corners of the world in “norwegianized” and timeless attire. They fully succeeded. “Atlanter are a straightforward pleasure”, the NME wrote about their debut album. With a Norwegian «Grammy» nomination and several high positions...

Almost nothing certain is known about this enigmatic outfit from the northern forests of the kingdom of Vilseck, Bavaria, Germany. Formed around 2006 by Trummer and Kreuzer, the band quickly managed to become the centre of the new European epic metal movement. Their "The Pnakotic Demos", released in 2007, was praised by journalists and fans all over the world as one of the best Epic Metal albums ever. Rooted deeply in the sound of Bathory, old Manowar, Solstice and Manilla Road, Atlantean Kodex deliver an heavy mixture of dramatic hymns, harmonic twin guitars and melodies, telling tales of lost worlds...

Angélica Castelló was born in Mexico City in 1972 into a family of non-musicians but music lovers... especially the music of the Beatles. She started playing the recorder at the age of 8 in the primary school "Maestro Fausto Bravo Gomez" with maestra Irma, the repertoire of the first 4 years was the Mexican National Hymn and "La Vikina"- with both pieces the whole music band (30 recorders approx.) did several competitions against other primary schools and as far as she remembers they didn't win any of them. At the age of fourteen she decided to study recorder at the...

IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE came together in 1974 when Dino Fiore asked his childhood friend Paulo Ferrarotti to form a band. Their name is taken from a magician called Atlante in Ludovico Ariosto's Romance epic ''L'Orlando Furioso''. They have undergone relatively few changes over the years with the line-up having remained more-or-less the same since 1982. After meeting the band at a concert in 1983, Beppe Crovolla suggested that they work together and in 1990 he invited them to contribute to his New Prog '90 project. When they recorded their first album with Crovolla, the band consisted of Paulo Ferrarotti...