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🌊💀Costa Da Morte, Galicia 🇪🇸
The Other Side of @czarinaofficial
1/2 of @thekitsunesofficial 🦊🦊
Editor @absynth.space
Former Star Cobbler @ivykirzhner

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My 2022 Orchestral Darkwave cover of “Cities In Dust” by Siouxsie and The Banshees which is celebrating its 41st anniversary today, and this song lands quite hard in our current times.

Released in 1985, the Siouxsie original draws inspiration from the destruction of Pompeii, evoking the impermanence of civilizations and the ruins left behind when the world as we know it collapses. Decades later, its imagery feels hauntingly relevant in a world still caught in ruthless cycles of conflict, war, genocide, political upheaval, destruction and human suffering.

Part of my sophomore LP Arcana, my cover takes on a life of its own through an orchestral darkwave reimagining. The accompanying music video draws inspiration from Greek arias, in which I embody a war god illuminating the Menhirs of Peace in a symbolic gesture that challenges the very nature of the war god archetype.

Because even the gods of war know that war is not the answer.
And yet, humanity continues to repeat the same cycles of destruction.

How much must we lose before we finally learn?

May we find our way back to peace. 🤍🕊️

#citiesindust #darkwave #orchestral #siouxsieandthebanshees #siouxsiesioux

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The Mighty, Stealthy Ninja 🥷🐾

#frenchies #frenchbulldog #beachdog #malpicadebergantiños #galicia

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Today’s adventures at the Gorilla beach 🦍🌊

#malpicadebergantiños #frenchie #frenchbulldog #galicia #costadamorte

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Summer is over. No more tourists. Just us and our usual friends.

#frenchie #beachdog #frenchbulldog #malpicadebergantiños #galicia

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The list of artists, bands and records that have influenced me over the years as I develop my own sound, which sits somewhere between modern ethereal darkwave, gothic post-metal, synthpop and cinematic orchestral music. The evolution continues.

The Cure
A Perfect Circle
Tool
Siouxsie and The Banshees
Depeche Mode
Dead Can Dance
NIN
Enya
Kate Bush
Florence + The Machine

If you like these bands, check out my last 2 LPs — “Arcana” and “Empire”

#darkwave #goth #gothic #postmetal #czarinaofficial

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Interstellar Warrior Goth 🖤🪐 My gothic post-metal and darkwave cover of one of my favorite songs ever “The Outsider” by @aperfectcircle whose sophomore LP “Thirteenth Step” just celebrated its 23rd Anniversary. One of my favorite covers and music videos I’ve ever done. Someone told me that it’s like The Cure and APC combined with some Kate Bush, Siouxsie and Florence + The Machine. That stuck with me forever since.

Visually, we wanted to give a more mystical and interstellar interpretation of the song. We transformed the landscape of our home into an alien planet, taking some of that House Harkonnen sleekness from Denis Villeneuve’s Dune as inspiration for the costume, and some 80s fantasy film for the background treatment. I’m also wearing emblems of my indigenous Filipino lineage thru a futuristic lens. Our famous lighthouse was transformed into an alien fantasy tower that looks as though it came from the Dark Crystal.

It’s quite an amalgamation of influences that is the cornerstone of the C Z A R I N A project as an homage to the great artists and visionaries that shaped me.

Production, arrangements, vocal and instrumental performances and recording by C Z A R I N A
Co-production, mixing and mastering by @vonhertzog @socialclubsound
Filmed by @thekitsunesofficial

100% Human-Made Music and Visuals

#aperfectcircle #goth #darkwave #postmetal #czarinaofficial

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⚔️ Lethal and Goth ⚔️ “Ghost Machine” (2024) challenges tyrannical order and oppression with themes of uprising, rebellion and justice. This is one my favorite gothic post-metal, modern darkwave works with some 90s dark alternative and dark electro elements. The video was inspired by the original cyberpunk anime “Ghost In The Shell”, “Akira, and the manga “Battle Angel Alita” with some serious freestyle Kenjutsu double blade work by yours truly. All shot in the epic seascape of my home Costa Da Morte.

I also was joined by my film, creative and life partner-in-crime @deadlykawaii in the video who’s also a 3rd Dan Budo, Bujutsu and Japanese MMA master, and the person responsible in equipping me in real life.

The video was produced and filmed by just the two of us. No choreography — all freestyle. We just did our thing together with only maybe 15 minutes of drone battery life left.

The last slide shows the amount of VFX and CGI used to create this.
And as always 100% Human Made music and visuals and sheer badassery.

Ghost Machine
Written, produced, recorded, with instrumental, guitar and vocal performances by C Z A R I N A
Co-production, mixing and mastering by @vonhertzog @socialclubsound
Film and visuals by @thekitsunesofficial

#ghostmachine #darkwave #goth #postmetal #czarinaofficial

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Musings and philosophies about making art and music in this day and age. Rising above the machines. Proudly 100% Human-Made Music, Art and Visuals. Organic and Self-Produced. Worships and respects the environment.

I don’t care if it kills me, but I’ll keep making art the real way no matter how difficult and hard it is.

#noai #goth #darkwave #synthpop #gothic

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I often say I don’t need to be understood. I would prefer to be witnessed and felt instead. Because emotions carry a certain language and spirit that often cannot be articulated. But those who feel it eventually understand the language, spirit, magic and meaning… And thus can fully articulate it and put it into words.

Thank you to In Praise of the Living, @morgantaubertzebulon for these generous words about my work.

🙏🏼🩶

#gothic #darkwave #postmetal #synthpop #czarinaofficial

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I just wrapped up the post for one of the best music video productions I’ve done in my whole career. It’s for a remix I did for @majesticphoenixmusic

We swapped remixes earlier. Both will be coming out soon with their own videos pretty much back-to-back.

But in this one, I get to play the Devil! I really, really enjoyed it. Felt a little too natural 🤭😈 Some of us were really born into darkness.

Stay tuned!

#meandthedevil #synthpop #angelsanddemons #czarinaofficial

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For all my fellow alchemists, mages, shamans, priests and priestesses, witches, mystics, animists, sorcerers, magick folk, seers, healers, oracles, occultists, hermits, sages, druids, sacred warriors and keepers of the old ways.

For the Great Spirits, Ancestors, and All That Surrounds.
As Above, So Below.

🙏🏼

“Alchemy”
C Z A R I N A - Live from Costa Da Morte (Coast of Death)
Now out on darkTunes YouTube

#gothic #postmetal #darkwave #esoteric #mysticism

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