A beautiful review on Vox Empirea Riding The Crest Of The Frozen Wave - A Tribute To The Frozen Autumn. This cd is available on calembourrecords/retail%20mail%20order.htm & thefrozenautumn.bigcartel/ (NGs tribute to The Frozen Autumn on this beautiful CD is the song This Time) Excellent initiative from Calembour Records label conceived to celebrate the commemoration of the twenty years of one of the most representative and valid projects of the Italian dark-electro-wave/gothic panorama, the The Frozen Autumn (Official) Autumn, whose general and artistic infos are widely available on Vox Empirea into the review of the album Chirality dating back 2011. This digisleeve cover-compilation, published in only five hundred hand-numbered exemplars accompanied by leaflet booklet, is fully entitled Riding The Crest Of The Frozen Wave - A Tribute To The Frozen Autumn : it includes nine remakes of tracks extrapolated from the albums constituents their complete discography, at this juncture entrusted to the creativity of as many underground projects, some of which gravitating around the same home Calembour Records. The reinterpretations audible within the tracklist, performed through the different musical styles belonging individually to each protagonist, renew the sound and atmosphere that characterized the musicality of the duo during its gradual ascent, in a crescendo of melodies and emotions to live with intensity and with the knowledge to listen to the celebration of one of the most significant repertoires from the National alternative scene, since the early 90s to today. The anthology opens by a reconstruction elaborated by the good Hidden Place, makers of the instrumental track The Forgotten Frontier, taken from the album Fragments Of Memories published in 1997, which melancholic electro-wave arias band are now replicated employing flows of synths and a programming diagram from which you can hear appreciable and precise similarities with the original songs procedures, including the pining perceptible in its most meditative moments. From the same full-length it comes the next Im Coming From Nowhere, a song which, also in its new wave rock-oriented scheme contrived by the Brazilian trio called Plastique Noir operating in the post-punk/gothic/darkwave/indie-rock scene, it external once again the melodic load and the impeccable aesthetic that has made it legendary: the strength of the vocals pronounced by Airton S. together with the fast phases of drum-programming, it connect harmoniously to the bass pulses, to the keyboards nuances and to the decadent arpeggios originated by guitar. The siren singing by Femina Faber, solo-project of Paola Bianchi, gives renewed emotionality to a song from the album Chirality entitled Sidereal Solitude, surrounding its midtempo electronic basement and its synths blooms by a nostalgic romantic lyricism and gothic delicacy. The Ferraras band Go Falmingo! leads the following track When You Are Sad, a chapter from the full-length Emotional Screening Device published in 2002, towards coldwave trajectories into which the vocals expressed by Bruno Vaccari spread flooding of bitterness the dynamic drums beats and the rhythmic succession of guitar and bass-lines; Nabla Operator, or Mirco Dean a.k.a. The Count, experiences the new form of Second Sight, a song which is also part of the previous album just mentioned: he erects a clear 80s synth/electro-wave musicality composed by the minimal replications of the programmed drumming supporting the keys mists, the distant chant reverberations and the swirl of effects that covers the entire track. The revisitation of Static Cold, included in the album Is Anybody There ? of the year 2005, is now played by the Roman band Winter Severity Index, whose singer Simona Ferrucci spreads alienation and abatement by depressed vocals that embrace a cold, shady and sometimes obsessive new-wave-darkwave musicality made by a dry drum sequencing, by guitar suggestions and by the fascinating keys breaths. Polar Plateau, from the album Is Anybody There ? too, is instead re-invented by the one-man project Lisfrank played by Fulvio Guidarelli from Savona, who architect for this song a danceable midtempo rhythm pavement supporting of alienating synth/minimal-wave melodism of voice, programming and keyboards that recall vividly the 80s Age. Extrapolated from the homonymous album licensed in 1999, heres now the electropop-wave sounds of Visionary Landscapes, a song originally created by the artistic synergy between Diego Merletto and Froxeanne in their project Static Movement: in this specific chapter, the song is the result of reworking implemented by the Berliners Patenbrigade:Wolff, who conceive a dancefloor fractionated with precision by rhythmic midtempo impulses aligned with the symmetries of the sequencing, with the wind created by synths and with the feminine singing from which they spring capturing harmonies. In the end, it couldnt miss the dedication to an historical track which, probably more than any other, it represented the beginning of the Frozen Autumn: the song is This Time , extracted from the debut-album Pale Awakening published in 1995 and reworked for this compilation by the cult-project called NG, the abbreviation for Northgate, whose representative Evor A. darkens the original and mighty electro-waver sounds of drum-programming, synths , guitar and vocals, transforming them into a slowed obscure-electro where vocals, keyboard, bass and the electronic percussiveness, generate a mood melodically saddened and psychedelic. Endless nostalgia coming from by now distant years and new insights emerge in this collection of songs combining past, present and internalizing the valuable contribution that the Frozen Autumn have so wonderfully bestowed to the wave music: all the artists involved in Riding The Crest Of The Frozen Wave have been able to catch fully the sensibility that has always characterized the unique and unrepeatable style of the reference model, finalizing a selection of covers each of them in possession of a distinct personality and effectiveness. This tribute is especially dedicated to the estimators who intuitively distinguish the typical sonority of the project, here interpreted under different perspectives: the release also constitutes an excellent viaticum for access indirectly to the music of Frozen Autumn, aimed to those who have simply heard about them but not experienced their deeds. A copy of this album, however, is indispensable for any respectable alternative collector. Maxymox - Vox Empirea
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:52:14 +0000
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