Feb 4, 2014

The Knight Nicola of Severin (photo: Mihai Plămădeală)
In the summer of 2011, Nomen Est Omen came into the Citadel of Sighisoara to make a video for the song Packington’s Pound. There, we met our good old friend, the Knight Nicola of Severin, whom we asked to participate, for a few seconds, with us in a scene, in front of the Dominican Church, filmed in an aerial perspective from the Clock Tower by our friend (himself) Mr. Victor Veculescu. “The takes” were ok, except for the fact that the armor of  Nicola and the costumes of the musicians were from different historical times. A small detail that slipped out of our sight, but things are’nt so critical as they seem to be: postmodernism will surely sometime offer the solution to use the material, in an artistical context. Until then, Nomen Est Mihai published a picture with the noble Knight in the art magazine "Cultural Observatory", no.586 , August 2011.
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Nomen Est Omen – The sound on the fly (photo: Mihai Plămădeală)
Shaman means wizard in Tungusic language. Yet, the term is known by his meaning of ideologist of ecstasy. The drum is the vehicle through which the shaman goes over the physical boundaries, in order to find and fight the demons that troubled the balance of the most beautiful world possibly  – the one we live in. The truth is that if you wildly beat a percussion instrument, the spirit that invades you at one given time raises up to the euphoria of the extreme sports. Rivers of endorphins cross the body of the “scrapper”, to the despair of the detached witnesses, most of the times. Sometimes, as it was the case at the “Transylvanian Fortresses” Festival, Sibiu 2010, Nomen Est Iulian, Tania & Anca raised over the Lesser Square, riding on a darbuka, flied over the Liar’s Bridge and landed on one of the nearby terraces, for a beer. Gabriela and Mihai waited down for them in order to fasten hair, respectively to take a picture for the archive.