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还记得在长辈怀里的感觉吗
我一定是记得
昨晚梦到小时候常走的那条小路
被父亲怀抱着，我在酣睡，他却健步如飞
醒来后站在明媚的阳台上回忆起梦中有白茫茫的雪地
想起父亲抱着我骑马翻山时露出雪地凛冽危险的青石尖儿
又想起父亲把白玉马送给老友时马场雪地里凌乱的马蹄印儿
在一个看不到这一切的地方
我还能拥有真实和梦幻交织的回忆
这足够做一期更新所需
有时候我觉得不是我们选择音乐和梦境
而是她们选择了我们
无论如何把此期送给遥远吧
我们的遥远
我们的根源
哦 其实她们是如此近
她们就是我们
青猫，12.11.
While Angels Watch（WAW)
把伟大的民族音乐和darkwave汹涌的新古典主义色彩精彩融合
冬季,悲哀,噩梦,杀,乌托邦,女神
While Angels Watch靠着音乐
带领我们在黑暗的时代吟唱与遗忘
这个和Nick Cave听起来如此相似的声音来自Dev
Dev和他的朋友从1985年至今依然活跃
虽然出片的量和知名度一直不高
但他们的音乐能够带来足够的惊喜
Acoustic, electric and bass guitars;
percussion and drums;
flute and French horn;
piano, trumpet, violin and viola:
each combine to give this recording an incredibly
full-bodied and complex flavour.
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The opening track, ‘Our Last Fanfare’
is about the coming demise of humanity and the inevitable transition
between the old world and that of a new Golden Age
Here the music drifts gently like a melancholic Celtic air
before a deep bass rhythm and clattering
drumroll add a more upbeat modality
to Jane Howden’s flute-assisted harmonies
‘Sister of the Sea’ is a nautical ode
to the catastrophic and deadly lure of the siren
confirming the similarities
between Dev’s characteristic baritone delivery
and that of Nick Cave
The delivery itself is rather unusual, too
‘Burn Like Ice’ is etched upon sweeping waves
of Classical guitar and the lyrics totally
refuse to adhere to the typical dictates of modern formulaic verse.
Again, we have the Nick Cave influence,
but this time the singing is truly wonderful and accelerates
with a frenzied emotion before mellowing out altogether.
This allows Jane Howden’s poetic recital to act as
an intermittent prelude to a choral duet:
‘Two crashing waves / One master One slave’.
Next we have a guest appearance
in the shape of none other than Ian Read of FIRE & ICE.
‘Medusa’ rumbles along menacingly and
bears a refreshingly nationalistic quality in its refusal to
bend in the face of adversity:
‘And here we are as pillars of stone /
We cannot move our roots from our home /
Here we were born and here we shall die /
Defending land with blood and with pride.’
This time it is Ian’s job to assume a lowered vocal undercurrent,
whilst Dev’s rising harmonies further demonstrate
his great range and versatility.
‘Death In Avalon’ is less than three minutes
in length and slightly reminiscent of OSTARA and STRENGTH THROUGH JOY.
Matt Howden’s engrossing bow can be heard
scything in the background above Jane’s bewitching vocals.
These delicate harmonies continue into the next track,
‘The Warmth of Being’, as a repetitive and plodding keyboard
intro gives the recording a carnivalistic quality;
its fluttering flutes and dark incantations
(‘Virgin / Mother / Crone’)
weaving a timeless epitaph to the endless cycle
of female power and entrapment. Meanwhile,
‘The Waiting Grounds’ is a fitting testimony to
just how different and original this album is
when compared to many of its neo-folk contemporaries.
It is at once both endogenous and exoteric.
Lyrically, it almost verges on R&B and the inclusion
of a wailing guitar solo conjures up memories
of CURRENT 93’s psychedelic conclusion to ‘Hitler As Kalki’.
I
mentioned earlier the penchant for history and homeland
which pervades ‘Medusa’, and this admirable theme
is continued in ‘Behind the Mists’.
song is a lament for the ancient
and now dwindling ways of our forefathers,
echoes of a forgotten world in which
songs were sung and battles were raged
in England’s green and pleasant land;
a country which is now entering its final death-throes.
‘Eye For Eye’ bears the sadness of
CURRENT 93’s ‘Soft Black Stars’,
but is none so forgiving in its sentiments:
‘You servants of false power /
You who go nowhere /
Just to a bottomless pit /
Of dreamless sleep /
Drowning us and ours /
In your filth’.
This is a warning to the faceless automatons of the Establishment
whose materialistic wiles bring to
mind G. K. Chesterton’s new unhappy lords (‘The Secret People’).
Somehow the track seems to fuse the vocal style o
f Tony Hadleigh (SPANDAU BALLET) with ‘The House of the Rising Sun’ (THE ANIMALS),
although WAW will probably think I’m completely mad
for suggesting as much.
The album’s final offering - ‘Silence’
- is a torrid gale of high winds,
screeching crows, peeling churchbells and explosions.
Its sustained and crowded atmosphere is a stereophonic pendulum.
Jack Or Jive 是由一对日本姐妹组成的仙音组合，中文译为光之姐妹
这期有一首beautiful world是她们的。深夜听来不错。
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