Fire Rec.Virgin Passages : Distance -LP & digipack-(UK,2008)***°
This is a mini-CD (23’04”) of this promising new band for the newly born psychfolk scene. Most of the album is like an early night preparation to go into a spiritual beauty sleep (an alternative for an awakening, -our lives are already too busy so why no go to sleep in beauty and with some powers-), like a communal ritual, into sections of songs and improvisation, be prepared! The dreamy vocal arrangements are beautifully crisscrossed in layers of repetition and singing along in harmony, there is an attractive rather colourful drum/percussion lead part, an induced dancing with the mind hypnosis, some additional spacey keyboards part, and many layers close in harmony but also some crisscross layering inducing the trance. The sections direct towards a lullaby that should bring peace not tiredness, in a form of huge proportion where the 5-piece band with 2 sound as if with 11 or so, singing, with electric guitars and drums in the background, weighing on the spirituality of the moment. Just the last piece, is a bit of a different moment, although it fits still well, a brighter day moment of expression in psychfolk style, a beautiful James Joyce poem interpretation (which I knew before from this compilation), where the band shows the same technique of crisscross-layering, with more clarity and with full charm.
