Animus

There are at least five artists under this name: (1) A rapper from Germany, living and acting in Heidelberg. (2) ANIMUS is a world fusion music & dance ensemble based in the Philadelphia, PA area. Led by Bill Koutsouros, Animus has been creating unique original music since 1994. Animus is an instrumental group of culturally diverse musical concepts and traditions from ancient to modern alike. The groups has influence which comes from various different cultures such as: Greek, Blues, Middle Eastern, Jazz, Spanish, Funk, Latin, Rock, Indian, Jewish-Klezmer and African.

There are at least five artists under this name: (1) A rapper from Germany, living and acting in Heidelberg. (2) ANIMUS is a world fusion music & dance ensemble based in the Philadelphia, PA area. Led by Bill Koutsouros, Animus has been creating unique original music since 1994. Animus is an instrumental group of culturally diverse musical concepts and traditions from ancient to modern alike. The groups has influence which comes from various different cultures such as: Greek, Blues, Middle Eastern, Jazz, Spanish, Funk, Latin, Rock, Indian, Jewish-Klezmer and African. The unorthodox instrumentation and unique original compositions excite the mind, body and soul with an endless variety of grooves and tribal rhythms, coupled with spontaneous, passionate improvisation knows no boundaries and awakens the spirit to get everyone moving to the music. Discography: Spirit Dance – 1995 Eternal Within – 1996 Animus Live at the Tin Angel – 1999 World Fusion – 2002 Mediterranean Dreams – 2005 The Movements - 2007 (3) An Israeli one-man black metal band.

The music is decidedly minimalistic, depressive black metal with drone and ambient influences. Lyrics, occationally in ancient Hebrew, are delivered with an exceptional vehemence. Not too dissimilar from Velvet Cacoon ("Genevieve" style). (4) A rock band from Poland. As underground as a mole; as explosive as a Talib band from Rzeszow known as Animus has been working in its present squad since about half of May ‘07, when - in the same time - Tomasz Piotrowski (bass) and Grzegorz Ziemba (throat) appeared. But in fact, band’s roots reach the 4th day of 2007, when Maciej Prokop (1st guitar), Dominik Woźniak (2nd guitar) and Michał Balogh (drums) finally made up their minds about cooperation under mystic name ‘Pół Dupy Zza Centrali’ /A half of an ass from behind a bass drum/. Songs created during the time between January and May curved the form of their later activity. After nine months of pregnanting its own blare, Animus /hardly/ managed to take part in a rock off chalange known as ‘Ro(c)kowa Noc’ /Rock Night/, and it was greeted with public’s prize. Band’s sound is a fusion of different inspirations, music visions and ways of perciving noise of each crew member, that drifts somewhere between - diametrical different – conventions, balances on an noisy edge of planed-mistakes experiment and classic, powered by ethnic motives and lots of energy. Lyrics are wierd parabols, that blend varied word-plays and symbols in order to form an unitary and unrepeatable atmosphere of each composition. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..