Green Monkey Rec.
Goblin Market : Beneath Far Gondal's Foreign Sky (2011)****/***'
The duo of Goblin Market, once part of Green Pajamas always had been fond of English literature. On their website they also mention Jeff’s obsession with Charlotte Brontë, and the importance for them and appreciation given to “Wuthering Heights”. This new andthird album of theirs album is dedicated to the late Ptolomaic Terrascope writer Tony Dale. It is a very wandering mind approach, with a few rockier rhythms too, but only like boosted up acoustic music mostly, sung by female or male vocals, with overdubbed voice effects or harmonies as well. Here and there are filmic, at times more Gothic keyboard-like orchestrations with convincing dynamics and with some folky edges of glockenspiel and flute or the (acid) folky song atmosphere underneath. The atmosphere still is that of quoting, imagining the worlds derived from literature, waltzing its way through statues of ideas, romanticised by the music. The production is done well, giving a warm atmosphere in the midst of lonelier pictures. Everything from the 60s style associations to later perspectives is filtered through their personal also visually inspired visions from a much older time, where some deeper roots of associations mattered.
500 numbered copies only.
