Amor Fati, by The Laconic

Amor Fati

by The Laconic

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rbinperson Mesmerizing, intricate, good for serious listening or for background as you work... soundscape heaven! "Dust" sounds like a spaghetti western! Favorite track: Dust.

Carsten Pieper Touch-guitarist Marc Pelath has assembled quite a few notable collaborators for this (his 2nd?) album under the The Laconic moniker. When you look at the names, his Markus Reuter connection becomes undeniable ;-)
Like his "mentor" Marc doesn't stick to one genre or formula, so, as the liner notes correctly say, this is instrumental music, prog rock based, but with many other ingredients. Mostly on the relaxed side, but with a spicy edge here and there - a fine, versatile album! Favorite track: Saber.

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1.	Fate 08:36 video	info
2.	Nona 01:44	info
3.	Saber 06:07	info
4.	Decima 02:17	info
5.	Dust 04:20	info
6.	Morta 02:02 video	info
7.	Mirror 05:29 video	info
8.	Refuge 18:32 video	info
9.	Equinox 06:51	info

about

Amor Fati is the second full album by Chicago-based composer and multi-instrumentalist The Laconic, and continues the program established with 2022's Integrals, of creating evocative, eclectic, and emotional songs without words.

Not quite a concept album, but not quite not a concept album either, Amor Fati was inspired by the topics of fate and eternal recurrence. Not really not progressive rock, but not really progressive rock either, it draws from other genres, from salsa to spaghetti western, and veers away from expectations at will.

Amor fati is a Latin expression meaning "love of [one's] fate". The Stoic philosopher Epictetus stated its essence as: do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens, happens the way it happens: then you will be happy.

credits

released April 8, 2023

It took me nearly half a century to discover the power and joy of collaboration, and so there are many people that made Amor Fati possible. Thanks to all of the the guest musicians for their consistently beautiful and thoughtful contributions. Additional thanks to Tim Gardner for fundamental contributions to “Refuge”; Juan Dahmen for being a treasure; Gary Husband, for somehow making my music sound even more like what I intended; Aralee Dorough and Colin Gatwood for their generosity; Christina Ruf for giving me an entire string section, twice; and Stefano Castagna, my brother-in-adversity, for his ears and heart. Special thanks to Scott Pelath for listening and being a top-notch brother; Erik Emil Eskildsen for advice and support; Markus Reuter, for making this all possible, and a hundred other things; and finally, my wife Diana, for her support throughout my at-times obsessive quest to make music for myself.

Juan Dahmen: Drums, percussion, and electronic drums
Aralee Dorough: Flute and piccolo
Erik Emil Eskildsen: U8 touch guitar
Colin Gatwood: English horn
Tim Gardner: U8 touch guitar and electric guitar
Gary Husband: Keyboards
Marc Pelath: U8 touch guitar, bass guitar, and synths
Scott Pelath: Electric guitar
Christina Ruf: Cello and electric cello

All music written by Marc Pelath, except "Refuge", written by Marc Pelath and Tim Gardner.

Recorded at Casa Margarita, Chicago, IL and elsewhere.

Mixed by Stefano Castagna
Mastered by Lee Fletcher
Produced by Markus Reuter
Design by Bernhard Wöstheinrich
Cover art "Milford" by August Hoerr

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The Laconic Chicago, Illinois

The Laconic is an entity created by composer-musician Marc Pelath, whose mission is to make evocative, eclectic, instrumental, arrière-garde, epic AF post-prog music.

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discography

Derivatives v2

Mar 2024
Time and Tide

Jan 2024
Derivatives v1

Aug 2023
Amor Fati

Apr 2023
Integrals

Apr 2022
Proofs (EP)

Nov 2020
Derivatives (demos)

Apr 2021

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