Silence & Strength - Opus Paracelsum

2007-08-15 / apeiron / Reads: 2712

Silence & Strength is a one-man project created by Israeli – Stephen Friedman. “ Opus Paracelsum” is his second full album. The record is dedicated to a brilliant Swiss physicist of Renaissance period – Paracelsus. Paracelsus was not only the man of empirical, physical science. He was also interested in...

Harvest Rain - Blood Hymns

2007-08-12 / apeiron / Reads: 4592

Formation Harvest Rain after recent “Night's Glow” comes back with a new album. “Blood Hymns” dissolves in the listeners ears with moderate warmth and delicate shade of anxiety in blood colour. Thompkins brothers sound again very cold and new-wave like. This time their neo-folk is rather soothing, comforting. Seldom brings...

Fetish 69 - Atomized

2007-08-08 / Nihil / Reads: 4129

Music one has to grow up for. I remember moving that album to a sidetrack two years ago, yawning with boredom, taking it for another pseudo-industrial creation. It's good that we're born to make mistakes and learn from them - and that was a big mistake, I'm sure of it...

Controlled Collapse - Injection

2007-08-06 / Antares / Reads: 9426

I must admit, that I've been waiting for the Controlled Collapse debut album with a great interest. It's not every day when one meets Polish musicians creating on the world level. Not only Humanization, a demo from 2005, but also some of their new music samples on the web, have...

Blackfield - Blackfield II

2007-07-31 / apeiron / Reads: 3139

It seems that this musical duo wants to repeat the success they achieved three years ago... They can manage it, because the new Blackfield's album is remarkably reminiscent of their debut one. But is it a better record? Surely melodious. The masterpiece, in this aspect, is the song “Miss U”....

Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse

2007-07-25 / apeiron / Reads: 3179

The return of the Lady is something one should wait for. Patiently. If it's the Lady of the Music like Loreena McKennitt the waiting, even if it's ten-year long, will be compensated. Abundantly – in this case. After the decade of absence on the musical stage, Loreena returns...