About
THE STORY OF TRIANGLE
The TRIANGLE story began with the desire of two individuals to create an album free of all the commercial pressures. This idealistic concept would contain all the musical elements they ever dreamed of putting into an album and would focus on the music, a story with a message, and not on the most commercially acceptable representation. Tony Tralongo and Emilio Sarpa have been friends since the 1980’s when they were both band members in Taipan. Emilio had used Ren Parisi and his facilities at Melbourne Studios many times to record Taipan albums. Between them, they had accrued some of their own obscure pieces which were not in their native genres, but rather, in the genre of a soundtrack to a horror movie. Tony was also a friend of Ren so, inevitably, Ren was approached to join the collaboration and the band TRIANGLE was born.
The logo of TRIANGLE is the unicursal ‘Valknut’, the Norse Viking symbol. Similarly, our combination comprises a trio of composers, producers, multi-instrumentalists and technicians.
THREE SIDES OF TRIANGLE
TONY TRALONGO
Pipe organ, mellotron, synthesizers, sampling, 12-string acoustic, electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, vocals.
Tony creates his original music under the name of COCOON and is the owner of Cocoon Concepts Record Label (CCRL). This is his first band project since going solo many years ago.
EMILIO SARPA
Bass guitar, synthesizers, sampling, 12-string acoustic and electric guitar.
Emilio is the songwriter, vocalist and bass player of TAIPAN, one of Melbourne’s hard rock/heavy metal pioneers.
REN PARISI
Narrative voices, synthesizers, electric guitar, sampling, drums and percussion.
Ren was the engineer/producer and owner of Melbourne Records. Ren is otherwise known as REN REICH and is now operating under the name of Reich Records.
THE MUSIC OF SHOCKWAVES
Progressive – if you like King Crimson
Gothic – if you like Black Sabbath and Goblin
Psychedelic – if you like Pink Floyd
Rock – if you like Rush and Krautrock
THE STORY OF SHOCKWAVES
This is an epic tale of a man who lived on the fringe of his community, an alchemist. In a state of permanent fear and hiding, he recounts his ordeals in the most philosophical and tragic manner. The stage is set in medieval times at around the fifteenth century. The alchemist takes us even further back, thus being ancient in his view, to the fourth century, a time that was a turning point for western civilization. The alchemist exposes the Roman Emperor Flavius Constantine and how, through his Council of Nicea, rewrote the Roman Catholic Bible and history in general to suit his own agenda. From then on, all freethinking individuals such as the alchemists were branded as heretics. Being branded a heretic, and exposing these secret truths were punishable by torture and then death. These truths are still hidden from us to protect the consensus reality created by today’s establishment. These facts still send shockwaves through the new world order. The alchemist’s story and his observations are a warning not to blindly accept the consensus reality provided to us all at birth.
Each of us is born into a social order that has already arrived at a “consensus reality.” Humans act in repetitious ways that become habitual. These soon become socially acceptable ways of behaving. After a while, these ways become “legitimised.” These then become unconscious and gradually evolve into laws of reality. We no longer question them.
In fact they are not reality at all. Other cultures do things quite differently. The consensus reality is what we’ve all agreed on as constituting reality.
“We learn at journey’s end what we knew from the very start.”
WHERE TO FIND SHOCKWAVES
Selected stores in Melbourne:
Direct from our record label:
Worldwide distribution (France):
We plan to celebrate with an album launch party so stay tuned!
The TRIANGLE story began with the desire of two individuals to create an album free of all the commercial pressures. This idealistic concept would contain all the musical elements they ever dreamed of putting into an album and would focus on the music, a story with a message, and not on the most commercially acceptable representation. Tony Tralongo and Emilio Sarpa have been friends since the 1980’s when they were both band members in Taipan. Emilio had used Ren Parisi and his facilities at Melbourne Studios many times to record Taipan albums. Between them, they had accrued some of their own obscure pieces which were not in their native genres, but rather, in the genre of a soundtrack to a horror movie. Tony was also a friend of Ren so, inevitably, Ren was approached to join the collaboration and the band TRIANGLE was born.
The logo of TRIANGLE is the unicursal ‘Valknut’, the Norse Viking symbol. Similarly, our combination comprises a trio of composers, producers, multi-instrumentalists and technicians.
THREE SIDES OF TRIANGLE
TONY TRALONGO
Pipe organ, mellotron, synthesizers, sampling, 12-string acoustic, electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, vocals.
Tony creates his original music under the name of COCOON and is the owner of Cocoon Concepts Record Label (CCRL). This is his first band project since going solo many years ago.
EMILIO SARPA
Bass guitar, synthesizers, sampling, 12-string acoustic and electric guitar.
Emilio is the songwriter, vocalist and bass player of TAIPAN, one of Melbourne’s hard rock/heavy metal pioneers.
REN PARISI
Narrative voices, synthesizers, electric guitar, sampling, drums and percussion.
Ren was the engineer/producer and owner of Melbourne Records. Ren is otherwise known as REN REICH and is now operating under the name of Reich Records.
THE MUSIC OF SHOCKWAVES
Progressive – if you like King Crimson
Gothic – if you like Black Sabbath and Goblin
Psychedelic – if you like Pink Floyd
Rock – if you like Rush and Krautrock
THE STORY OF SHOCKWAVES
This is an epic tale of a man who lived on the fringe of his community, an alchemist. In a state of permanent fear and hiding, he recounts his ordeals in the most philosophical and tragic manner. The stage is set in medieval times at around the fifteenth century. The alchemist takes us even further back, thus being ancient in his view, to the fourth century, a time that was a turning point for western civilization. The alchemist exposes the Roman Emperor Flavius Constantine and how, through his Council of Nicea, rewrote the Roman Catholic Bible and history in general to suit his own agenda. From then on, all freethinking individuals such as the alchemists were branded as heretics. Being branded a heretic, and exposing these secret truths were punishable by torture and then death. These truths are still hidden from us to protect the consensus reality created by today’s establishment. These facts still send shockwaves through the new world order. The alchemist’s story and his observations are a warning not to blindly accept the consensus reality provided to us all at birth.
Each of us is born into a social order that has already arrived at a “consensus reality.” Humans act in repetitious ways that become habitual. These soon become socially acceptable ways of behaving. After a while, these ways become “legitimised.” These then become unconscious and gradually evolve into laws of reality. We no longer question them.
In fact they are not reality at all. Other cultures do things quite differently. The consensus reality is what we’ve all agreed on as constituting reality.
“We learn at journey’s end what we knew from the very start.”
WHERE TO FIND SHOCKWAVES
Selected stores in Melbourne:
- Quality Records. Malvern
- Greville Street Records, Prahran
- Polyester Records, Fitzroy
- Heartland Records, North Melbourne
Direct from our record label:
- trianglemusic.weebly.com
- cocoonconcepts.weebly.com
Worldwide distribution (France):
- musearecords.com
We plan to celebrate with an album launch party so stay tuned!