Aghiatrias

Aghiatrias is so called "integrated music" project from Prague, Czechia, of composer, instrumentalist & sound alchemist Vladimír Hirsch and sound-engineer Tom Saivon, started in 1999 as more abstract sprout of their martial-industrial band Skrol, stressing the work with rich arsenal of sound structures. It is based on grasping both ways in a manner (contemporary classical music v. dark industrial and dark ambient).

Aghiatrias is so called "integrated music" project from Prague, Czechia, of composer, instrumentalist & sound alchemist Vladimír Hirsch and sound-engineer Tom Saivon, started in 1999 as more abstract sprout of their martial-industrial band Skrol, stressing the work with rich arsenal of sound structures. It is based on grasping both ways in a manner (contemporary classical music v. dark industrial and dark ambient). In autumn 1999 Vladimir Hirsch (composer, keyboards, samplers, drums, vocals, computer) and Tom Saivon (noise generators, samplers, computer, lyrics) joined their creative efforts in this project, which is a kind of extrapolation and the combination of contemporary classical music (Hirsch) and noise (Saivon) tendencies within Skrol, which was eventually, through mutual infiltration by basic theses and antitheses, brought to life as a fully homogeneous structure by both members of the group. After more than five years of existence, the band is widely known in the European industrial scene and regularly performing at prestigious European festivals.

The ensemble regularly appears in Poland, Slovakia, Netherlands and Germany, in Czechia it generally limited its performances to the regular Prague industrial festival. It has been on long and successful tour in the US in June 2001. After the tifth album "Reliquary" the band discontinued its activity in 2007. http://www.vladimirhirsch.com/e_Aghiatrias.html User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..