Band Members
Cornelius M. Waldner
(piano, flute, voice)

with

Marcel P.
(sound engineering, cello, bass guitar, live vocals)

Dimo Dimov
(guitars)

occationally assisted by various valuable friends:

sG | Damiano Mercuri | Herr Twiggs | Troy Southgate

The idea to form the music project which turned out to become Sagittarius evolved in the end of 1998. Back then project founder Cornelius Waldner was concentrating his musical skills on his black metal-band Hailstorm, but felt the urge and need to work more intensively with classical music and soundscapes.

After two cassette releases in 1999 and 2002, Sagittarius's debut LP "Die Grobe Marina" saw the day of light in April 2003, being released by the German publishing house Renovatio Verlag in 300 copies on heavy white vinyl, clad into an elegant gatefold-package. It was a conceptual composition based on Ernst Junger's novel "On The Marblecliffs", but should not be understood as an attempt to put the entire book into music, instead, selected scenes and passages were picked out and inspired Sagittarius during the process of creation. Apart from six own compositions, the album also included musical pieces by Ion Manzatu, Simion Lefter and Ludwig van Beethoven.

The release of "Die Grobe Marina" was accompanied by a few selected concerts between 2002 and 2006, Sagittarius having shared the stage with Rose Rovine e Amanti, The Days Of The Trumpet Call, Von Thronstahl, and German poet Timo Kölling.

In February 2006, Sagittarius participated in the creation of a soundtrack for a short independent movie entitled "Gelegenheit Leben", in March 2006, Sagittarius recorded new material that is featured on "Salon Decadence", a split-CD with Rose Rovine E Amanti, Tho-So-AA, Shava Sadhana, and Echo West, as well as on "Fragmente II", a private CD-release strictly limited to 50 copies.

"Songs From The Ivory Tower", the much-anticipated second Sagittarius album, was released by Cold Spring Records on May 16th, 2008. The new opus contains 15 pieces of dark neoclassical music and is mainly based on poems by Stefan George, Bernhard von Uxkull-Gyllenband, Gottfried Benn, Ludwig Uhland and Timo Kolling, plus a number of instrumental pieces, featuring guest contributions by Marcel P., Herr Twiggs (Kammer Sieben), Damiano Mercuri (Rose Rovine E Amanti), Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R. / Seelenlicht) and Philipp Jonas (Secrets Of The Moon).

Since June 2008 Sagittarius is a trio, Marcel P. and Dimo Dimov having joined Cornelius Waldner as permanent members.

www.myspace.com/marblecliff

www.sagittarius.de

Cornelius Waldner (SAGITTARIUS) will make a guest appearance on a forthcoming CD-release by DAYS OF THE TRUMPET CALL.
Alongside with Troy Southgate on vocals, he performed the piano for a song which is to be published on "I Saw No Temple In The City, Reminiszenz 1999-2006", a 2-CD re-issue of the legendary 10" picture-vinyl, also including a collection of tracks which appeared on various compilations in those years. The CD will be released by the German label Trutzburg Thule soon.

Songs... reviewed by TekNoir (Gothtronic.com)

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"Songs..:" reviewed by Zero Tolerance Magazine

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FAHL is a new dark ambient project formed by Dimo Dimov, Marcel P. and Cornelius Waldner in the autumn season of 2008. A debut album, to be entitled "The paths to emptiness", is presently in preparation.


Feel free to visit www.fahl-lodge.de for further information.

Sturmgang will be released in January 2009!!

They will put an exclusive Nachtreich song (titled "In Gedanken") on a compilation, which is called "Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer". It will be released by "Northern Silence Productions".
For further informations please visit the following myspace-page:

www.myspace.com/derwanderercom

New Sagittarius full length album "Uni ja kuolema" (Finnish for "Dream and Death")

The first titles are:

An die Parzen
(words: Friedrich Holderlin)

Uni ja kuolema
(words: Uuno Kailas)

Valse Brilliante
(words: Hermann Hesse)

Seelied
(words: Stefan George)

Song VIII (Composed In A Dream)
(words: Count Eric Stenbock)

Harvest Moon Rises
(words: myself)

Penthesileia
(instrumental)

Available and upcoming Sagittarius - releases

Sagittarius contributed the track "Erio (Version 2006)" to a compilation CD called "Return To The Darkness", released by the Malaysian Black Metal label Kayangan Distribution.

Please check www.myspace.com/kayangandistro666 for further information.