Victory at Sea

Mr. Xenakis, for to achieve complete victory in his "struggle for existence", would have to create something so different that to anybody else it would be totally meaningless.
Even he has not gone that far, though he has regularly traveled a long way into the desert of incoherence, often by calculating his music so as to maximize disorder. This is the main thrust of his mathematical techniques: his spinning numbers, like John Cage's coin tossings, insure that notes are chosen and ordered by blind chance, or according to processes of change that have little to do with conventional musical perception.
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Mr. Xenakis so often equates beauty with savagery: in his fascination with weapons and armor, for instance, with the sea or with the bulls of the Camargue. In his music virtually the whole elaborate machinery of Western composition is set aside, and we are left with a brute vocabulary of other modernists - Stravinsky, Varèse, Harrison Birtwistle - avoidance of the immediate past leads to imagined contact with the archaic.

Paul Griffiths, The New York Times, Sunday, January 26, 1997

REBELLION's new album "Wyrd Bið Ful Aræd – The History Of The Saxons" released on September 25, 2015 via Massacre Records. Bassist Tomi stated: "The title of this album is taken from the Old English poem 'The Wanderer' and means something like 'you cannot escape your fate'. The background of most songs on our album is based on solid historical facts: The first song ‘Irminsul’, for example, gives an account of the social and tribal meaning of the annual Althing for the Saxons."The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Oliver Geibig at Tone Town Music, and produced by Oliver Geibig and Tomi Göttlich. Hanspeter Ludwig is responsible for the cover artwork.