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Reverie : Shakespeare, la donna, il sogno (I,2008)****
Reverie for their first official release developed a very serious concept for it. Their skills and interests very much are developed from playing Renaissance music, so their Play starts from playing this sort of music while being confronted with the best of English Renaissance theatre, standing for one of the core fundaments and development for English language, culture and acting/playing roles, symbol for plays from an eternal archetypic nature, where characters are brought to stage and then die, so that stay outside real life, like myths that work only as creative projects to deal with experiences from : William Shakespeare, and also develop the fantasy for a dark haired lady. In that way, 4 songs are based upon Shakespeare’s lyrics, and there are another 4 old English traditionals (from 16th to 17th century), and one completely self-penned instrumental. One bonus track is in esperanto. Many of these songs are a transmission of Renaissance music into a folk-chamber version, perfectly suitable to feed ourselves best in our contemporary world. The art-folk approach and the singer’s lead voice with good variations in singing and a beautiful colour of voice, in the more melodic moments could also bring the English band Renaissance in mind. On the “Sonetto 130”, which I knew already from the demo, once more I’m reminded, because of the singing, melodic quality and arrangements of the old Yugoslavian band Sedmina. Mostly the arrangements are led by guitar, flute or clarinet and cello, but also some keyboards. These keyboards are the least like old music, but they add a different character which still suits the music well. The second and last bonus track is also especially rewarding for it’s more symphonic art approach in the arrangements, with some interesting guitar chords changes mixed with clarinet worth checking out. Very good !!
