Spear

Since the appearance of their self-titled first tape in 1994, SPEAR from Lodz in Poland have been exploring the area of "alchemistic sound-creation".The group searches for hidden treasures in the stream of the unconsciousness much like alchemists centuries ago searched for hidden gold in common metals. Through their music SPEAR seek to find the other side of reality. The spiritual side of the world which is linked with the material world. Having released two CDs, the music consists of faraway bells, windy drones, flutes, strange harmonies and singings eminating from outer-space; a new kind of ethno-experimental-industrial. Mesmerizing & magnetizing magique... This is today's alchemistic music.

"World is not a chaotic assemblage of unconnected and discrete elements. On the phenomenal level it seems to be an infinite game of distracted appearances but all of them are rooted in the same uncontrollable, savage being - called Prima Materia in hermetic tradition. Every-thing is a realization of possibilities which it encloses. Under the seemingly solid ground of consciousness flows the underground stream, dark current of life. We search for its sources, we listen to its secret voice. Matter is the other side of spirit. Consciousness finds its beginning in collective unconsciousness. As gold is hidden in ordinary metals so there is a treasure in dark waters of unconsciousness. Alchemic sublimation of matter can't be separated from process of materialization of spirit. By transforming matter the alchemist transforms his physical, mental and spiritual being. Art is exactly this kind of transformation.

Music is listening. When listened to attentively every sound of worldshows its previously unknown and unpredictable aspect. SPEAR focuseson listening to the "voices" of environment. Concrete soundsof different sources are the basic element of our music. It is not anexpression of our feelings or thoughts but rather a way in which wetry to find and understand the unchanging core of every-thing. It isa never-ending process of sublimation of the perceptible world. Listeningdeeply to the silent music of world, we believe, we can find "theother" side of visible, sonic or tactile reality . However we donot accept separation of matter from spirit. They are ontologicallyconnected like two sides of the same coin. Dualism is a creation ofunrestrained rational thought. Spirit permeates every particle of materialreality which is simultaneously the only gate to explore the "other"side. We recognize the perceptible world as a constant flow of manifestationof spirit. Observing this process we try to be an active and consciouspart of it. Every work of art is a realization of this idea."