1/2 SOUTHERN NORTH (IDVex) - Cantabile
of Hades (Rivers of the Underworld)
Independent
This
is a kind of release that we are not used to in our webzine. From 2001 that we
started this webzine few were the releases of this genre that we have presented
here. The band’s style is described as experimental avant garde music and
sincerely I don’t know what exactly these terms mean. Anyway in art and of
course in music are either things that you like or leave you indifferent.
Before
I proceed to the description of this release let me give you some information
about it. As you can realize from the title it is a release based on a concept
story. It is inspired by the ancient Greek mythology and in specific on the
beliefs of ancient Greeks for the underworld and after life. According to this
mythology there were 5 rivers that were leading to Hades (the underworld of
ancient Greek mythology and not the band). 1/2 SOUTHERN NORTH in their release
made a concept about the 3 of them which is Flegethon, Kokytos and Lithi.
The
whole album is based mainly on the great voice of the female singer and has as
a background a minimalistic music. The atmosphere is very imposing and really
captured my sense and mind while I was listening to it. I have to admit here
that it is a sad album that made the whole listening a bit painful for me (and
I mean that on a good way since this is what the artist wants to create with
this album). I would describe the whole sound as a mixture of a movie
soundtrack (it could easily by in an epic film like 300), choruses of the
ancient Greek tragedy and some elements of the Greek mourning songs (μοιρολόγια) which are
very strong in the last track of this release under the title “Lithi (River Of
Oblivion)”.
All
in all this is a very ambitious and impressive work that proves that most of
the times less is more. If you want to listen to some good atmospheric music,
then this is an album that I can recommend to you.
Nick
“Verkaim” Parastatidis
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