• GH Records

    febrero 8, 2016

    Puissance – Grace Of God

    Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM017
    Format: CD, Album, Enhanced
    Country: Portugal
    Released: 31 Jan 2007
    Style:Modern Classical, Industrial, Ambient

    The cogwheels on the Puissance warmachine are back to work, as defiant and innovative as ever. “Grace of God” re-invents the current notion of Martial-Pop, with their own superior combination of sumptuous Neo-Classical and Industrial music.

    Three years after “State Collapse”, the cogwheels on the Puissance-warmachine have been fine-tuned and put to work again, in a crushing motion that seems to be as defiant and innovative as ever. Forerunners in blending post-Industrial soundscapes with seemingly Wagnerian inspired classical scores, the Swedish duo’s controversial portrayal of human life often tends to raise a mix of conflicting feelings towards them.

    In keeping with such tradition, this return by Puissance serves as a lucid statement on current world affairs. In Soderlund’s own words, “"Grace of God”is partially meant as a commentary on contemporary events both social and political. Our goal is to inform yet retain a poetic undertone to frame our analysis of world politics and objectives. This album focus heavily on the foreign policy of western civilizations particularly inspired by neoconservatives and other proponents of economically based genocides in third world countries. Rather than subscribing to any political agenda, Puissance stands out as artists against the political and financial motives that have led up to numerous unresolvable conflicts that are on the verge of plunging us into the third world war.“

    Musically, "Grace of God” could well be referred to as a re-definition of the currently over-abused Martial-Pop term, yet Puissance’s own superior combination of sumptuous Neo-Classical and Industrial elements raises any potential Pop anthem to an entirely distinct level. More melodic and vocal-oriented than before, this latest opus also comes to expose a more rhythmic approach that had been hinted at in previous releases, but which has now morphed into a powerful and relentless driving force in Söderlund and Möller’s compositions. Compellingly militant as well as beautifully apocalyptic, “Grace of God” finds Puissance in top form, presenting a fine compendium of all bits and pieces that the band have been flirting with throughout their career and incorporating them in a unique style which will again set new standards, as they have been known to do in previous outputs. 

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  • GH Records

    febrero 8, 2016

    Lupercalia – Florilegium

    Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM005
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Portugal
    Released: 2004
    Style: Modern Classical, Neofolk

    In the finest Italian Neo-Classical Medieval/Gothic Italian tradition, Lupercalia’s second album blends together Eastern and European influences in an alchemical creation produced by top-notch musicianship and a strong soprano voice.

    “Florilegium” is a Latin word meaning a ‘collection of script’, a ‘literary anthology’. This second album of the duo LUPERCALIA was born with a change of line-up, when the soprano singer Claudia Florio joined Riccardo Prencipe, the founding member of the project.

    Riccardo, a skilled multi-instrumentalist, who handles classical guitar, orchestral synth and dulcimer, is also the person responsible for the arrangements on the album, put together with the intention of giving birth to a soundtrack for a movie that exists only in his own imagination. Said soundtrack is further enhanced by orchestration performed by a real string quartet and by the impressive work of solo violinist Gianluca Uccio.

    Claudia’s bold delivery and the Latin lyrics used contribute to the wide canvas of moods and emotions portrayed on “Florilegium”, a collection of elaborate and complex tracks where Arabic flavoured melodies clash headfirst into Medieval inspired Neo-Classical compositions, drawing into a single soundscape various elements otherwise alien to each other.

    An ancient, and often hazy and surreal, aura haunts “Florilegium” – the perfect result from the combination between Riccardo’s medieval art studies and Claudia’s alchemical teachings, applied to the inspiration found in various old monuments and traditional melodies (such as the XII century pilgrim’s song that they have recreated for this recording).

    Buy: 11  € http://www.gh-records.com/1003-lupercalia-florilegium.html

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