Label:Twilight Records – TW 1.92 Format: CD, Album Country: Argentina Released: 2011 Genre: Electronic Style: Modern Classical, Darkwave
Necessary Illusions is the first album of the Argentinian band RAVEN WINGS. This young duo takes us on a journey that tells themes as love, life, death and distress. There are accompanied by a Gothic atmosphere delicately combined with elements of Baroque music, and being shaped by the participation of a string trio and electronic sounds that give this particularity in style. The album has the structure of a book; each song is a separate section that guides the listener into the musical narrative. So then, the musical and literary plot is finished.
Deleyaman – Fourth, Part One Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM026 Format: CD, Album, Digipak Country: Portugal Released: 2009 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Modern Classical, Darkwave, Ethereal, Folk, Ambient
DELEYAMAN translate a sense of timeless spirituality into a contemporary and universal language. Hardly classifiable into a single genre, “Fourth, Part One” combines Darkwave with ethnic and ethereal elements.
Following the release of the album “3”, in 2006, over 25 titles were written and composed by DELEYAMAN. 11 of these compositions, entirely recorded, mixed and mastered in the band’s studio in Normandy, France, were presented as “Fourth, Part One”. The remaining material is set to appear later as “Fourth, Part Two”, a complimentary yet contrasting sister-release which followed in early 2011.
The overall mood of this album is different from their prior releases, yet the sincerity with which they continue to explore their art is a constant in DELEYAMAN’s work. Inspiration for the lyrics comes partially from the works of American poets E.A. Robinson, A. Hecht, R.W. Emerson, E.A. Poe, H. Crane and T. Stickney, but also from the Lebanese mystic poet Khalil Gibran. Most of the titles are sung in English, except for two tracks sung in Armenian and the track “Jardin”, sung in French, the words taken from the poem “Nous n’irons plus au bois”, by T. de Banville. The use of several languages by Beatrice Valantin and Aret Madilian, the two vocalists, has always been a distinct characteristic of the band, whose members all come from different backgrounds.
DELEYAMAN’s style, which to this day remains difficult to classify into a single genre, is further defined by the inclusion of the duduk, an Armenian wind instrument. More than simply adding an ethnic reference to their compositions, the duduk grants them a unique tone, emphasizing the ethereal and exotic qualities that allow the album to reach beyond the darker specter of alternative music from which the band originally derived. Through their art, DELEYAMAN translate a sense of timeless spirituality into a contemporary and universal language, carrying the listener into a mesmerizing world which still sounds comfortably familiar and close at heart. “Fourth, Part One” is presented in Digipak format, accompanied by a 32-page booklet.
Under exclusive license from TTO Records, U.S.A., for Europe.
Turnavel – Unbewusste Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 118 CD Format: CD Country: Spain Released: Mar 2013 Style: Neo-Classical, Dark Ambient
Maurice Maeterlinck compared the unconscious to an unfathomable ocean scarcely illuminated by a dim phosphorescence. Unbewusste is a kind of promenade through it, along a series of diverse soundscapes that could serve as scenery for an ecstatic duel between the Muse and the inexorable scythe of Saturn. Turnavel is a project born in 2003, after its existence in some latent mental form while his founder played in bands with different styles during the previous years. It develops a wide range of mainly neoclassical soundscapes which sometimes draw inspiration from other media, such as films, painting or literature, usually related to oneiric or symbolic subjects and addressed to the imagination of the listener. CD cover design of Max Hierro.
