Last Visible Dog
Dead Raven Choir : Wine, women and wolves (POL/US,2003)*°°
A couple of disarming guitar chords, with Japanese like chords beatings, death lingers as an icy shadow, when a voice whispers.. an exhibit, dangerous to change one’s destiny.. is what I feel after the first couple of seconds of “the eyes of beauty”.
With words by Rainer Maria Rilke (like "The Kings Of The World Are Growing Old"), Hilaire Belloe, Charles Beaudelaire (like "The Owls" ), A.A.Milne, Feral Fansworth, there are many space intervals being part of the music, entangled with aggressive chords or tangling bowed strings, contemporary abstract and odd, with whispering words that often cry out from out of the silence like shouts, Dead Raven Choir shows show a dark theatre-like expression, more than just textures with words and poetry in music. “Beacons, Rubens, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Puget, Watteau, Delacroix” by Baudelaire, is extra expressive with a second dubbed voice, working as a curse, which is, -although whispering too, and in a quiet mode-, obviously influenced by the metal scene. “Christmas Meat-carrion” by Feral Farnsworth has also mesmerizing / exorcising creaky dark aspects of human expressions. Last track concludes with an instrumental. A consistent release.
