Rendeece - Odeipus
- 1Plaintive voices, repeating one wail
- 2Hell drinks a toast to our drought
- 3All beat their bloodied wings west to the god of death
- 4Would you rule a wrecked kingdom
- 5Sphinx is singing no more for her human supper
- 6Dead man deserves justice
- 7The blind priest
- 8Cannot bury it in clay
- 9Mountain will echo your moan
- 10The filth you are in
- 11You are who you are seeking to find
- 12You, who’d steal my kingdom
- 13You are my enemy
- 14Killing a kinsman, getting away with it
- 15Silent in his wisdom
- 16Taken from this world (by violent hands)
- 17Exile, or instant death
- 18My soul is worn to shreds
- 19Will you add to our woes, imagining evil
- 20I taste your bitter word
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With the "Odeipus" series, Rendeece begins a new chapter that connects sound, theater and Tarot cards.
The project started with one vital question out of Sophocles’ tragedy of Oedipus: “Would you rule a wrecked kingdom?”. A vital question, we could address to all our leaders letting austerity and injustice rule all people’s lives. Is their plan to rule a wrecked “kingdom”, destroyed societies or even a dead planet?
One of the main ideas is based on the anagram of Oedipus. The title "Odeipus" implies that this project is an ode. An ode to the archetypes of Sophocles’ play and the story of King Oedipus.
Above all, it’s a search of the play’s symbols and its "underflow" continuing Rendeece’s fascination for archetypes as represented in the Tarot cards. For Odeipus project, the starting point are the Tarot cards by Salvador Dali. Relevant article is presented at tarotheater.gr (in greek), a site where Rendeece (Vassilis Sardelis) presents his approach on the Tarot Cards as a tool for creativity and art.
The story of King Oedipus is undoubtedly existing in our collective unconscious. A man that killed one's father and married his mother. Upon realisation, his wife-mother Jocasta hangs herself, whereas, Oedipus commits the act of self-blinding.
In that tragic story, is there any space for cure? For therapy through our collective unconscious, of our deepest of traumas? By killing our parents in that symbolic/archetypical way, is it actually a path for a new life or even for deep transformation? A deep connection with our "Self"? Is the choice to stop seeing the present "reality" as we are used to and shift our vision to our inner darkness, a way of meditation, transcendence? That can actually change our perspective in this reality? Are all these a path for self-consciousness?
In Nina, Rendeece releases one volume with all the existing releases of the project.
Conceived and produced by Rendeece
Mastering @ Digging Sounds Studio
Artwork by Kostas Kosnetzof
The project started with one vital question out of Sophocles’ tragedy of Oedipus: “Would you rule a wrecked kingdom?”. A vital question, we could address to all our leaders letting austerity and injustice rule all people’s lives. Is their plan to rule a wrecked “kingdom”, destroyed societies or even a dead planet?
One of the main ideas is based on the anagram of Oedipus. The title "Odeipus" implies that this project is an ode. An ode to the archetypes of Sophocles’ play and the story of King Oedipus.
Above all, it’s a search of the play’s symbols and its "underflow" continuing Rendeece’s fascination for archetypes as represented in the Tarot cards. For Odeipus project, the starting point are the Tarot cards by Salvador Dali. Relevant article is presented at tarotheater.gr (in greek), a site where Rendeece (Vassilis Sardelis) presents his approach on the Tarot Cards as a tool for creativity and art.
The story of King Oedipus is undoubtedly existing in our collective unconscious. A man that killed one's father and married his mother. Upon realisation, his wife-mother Jocasta hangs herself, whereas, Oedipus commits the act of self-blinding.
In that tragic story, is there any space for cure? For therapy through our collective unconscious, of our deepest of traumas? By killing our parents in that symbolic/archetypical way, is it actually a path for a new life or even for deep transformation? A deep connection with our "Self"? Is the choice to stop seeing the present "reality" as we are used to and shift our vision to our inner darkness, a way of meditation, transcendence? That can actually change our perspective in this reality? Are all these a path for self-consciousness?
In Nina, Rendeece releases one volume with all the existing releases of the project.
Conceived and produced by Rendeece
Mastering @ Digging Sounds Studio
Artwork by Kostas Kosnetzof