BISCLAVERET

"Psyche noMine"

The Eastern Front - 2007

CD

This 50-minute album by Polish duo Bisclaveret offers six tracks with distorted voices and sounds, piano and other orchestral elements, creating a dark ambient esoteric atmosphere. The general theme of the album is the exploration of the meanders of human spirit with the subconscious and its influence on reality.

It is not a very original album, yet, far from resulting boring, it creates a perfect dark-horror soundscape: sounds are black and disquieting, while lyrics are sorts of murmured spells, as we can note through the song "Strange Way To Paradise", where a piano adds melancholy to the industrial rhythm. Bisclaveret are able to create a sense of magic and liturgy on a sober and melodic musical pattern: one of the best tracks of the album is "Dead For This World", that seems a synthesis of sacred melodies and religious chants with a taste of occultism, but also "Voices From Another State Of Mind, Heart & Body" offers an oppressive rhythm reminding the sonorities of an initiation rite or a descent into hell. The mysterious "Akeldama XIV" based on a text by Aleister Crowley follows a similar path and seems a divine melody.

A final remark goes to the accurate triptych-shaped packaging.

- Roberta T.

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