AhnsternDéfilé Des Armes : Lust 'n' Stone (GR,2008)**'
Défilé Des Armes uses the whole range of elements used before in association with neofolk with the advantage of having a cello as a steady instrument. The cello arrangements with guitar provide minimal chamber-like arrangements, like funeral-music, sometimes with marching drum accents, spoken words and song. But there is an occasional more uplifted mood too, with flute/bodhran improvisation (4), or with Greek mandolin (8, the song dedicated to Ataraxia), the only track from which I can sense they are from Greece. We could also hear twice some element of klezmer-like sadness of improvisations on clarinet. Also occasional is electric guitar and such, that drive into a different darkness of psychedelic chamber-industrial rock power.
