Blind Prophet Rec.
Art Abscons Der Verborgene Gott -LP- (D,2010)**'
Now and then I am prepared to try, often on suggestion, some of the more acoustic new neo-folk albums. This one is on LP so I hoped it had qualities that comes over well on the warm sonic range on vinyl. And yes, indeed often it does, because of the productional arrangements with a few industrial sounds or voice effects just here and there that add the extra necessary other layer to keep some open ear in the attention. The foundation remains the half spoken baritone songs in German, English and even French for one song, mixed with strummed guitar, accordion, bass basic percussion, glockenspiel and a few near-neo-classical arangements on keyboards. While like all neo-folk this sounds as if there is no future in this world, and the musicality is limited, the vocals does not sound depressed but rather friendly in ideas and tone, despite the idea the project presents itself with a halloween-alike pumpkin striped old man's mask of a kind of street hurdy gurdy player from a gothic b-horror movie. A bit of female voice can be heard in the last few tracks too. Limited to 500 numbered copies on quality vinyl. The album featured features collaborations with members of Luftwaffe, Sinweldi, Gnomanclast, and Valence.
