This album was the main reason to get myself P2P after all, but it is too easy to get. I have a few nice compilation tracks from this Chilene band, but I didn’t know if I would want to have a whole album. Well, there is only one good track on “Reflejos Del Sol” and I already had it. Der Arbeiter makes tranquil music with trance-beats and a bit of a ‘neofolk’ style. Original, but not good.
Well well, also DI6 now has an online album! 39 Minutes with three versions of “Death/Love Books”, two songs with David Tibet (is it a coincidence that this is “Letper 93”?) and two other versions of old songs. Maybe not the best DI6 album, but definetely not a bad one, because it gives ‘the neofolk side’ of the band, but also a more ‘technoish’ (?) side. And like I said: it’s free, so happy downloading.
After a few re-releases of older cds, here we have a cd with brandnew recordings. “All Pigs Must Die” is a bit of a strange cd and can definately not be compared to the previous cds that were recorded with Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch. There is again a guest musician again though: Andreas Ritter of the German neo-folk band Forseti, but his role is (I think) not comperable to Julius’ on previous albums. Ritter plays accordeon and flute on a few tracks and this actually goes very well with the DIJ neo-folk style.
And there I said it, “All Pigs Must Die” contains neo-folk, somewhat in the ‘familiar’ DIJ style of some years ago, but a bit more experimental in a way. As the cd continues, the songs are getting more and more experimental and eventually go over in a bunch of noise tracks. Not very extreme noise, but still. The last track is what I would describe as ‘ritual’, strange soundscapes with slowed-down vocals and a dark atmosphere.
Nope, DIJ is not easily predictable, so don’t try to imagine how Douglas’ new albums will sound.
Hm, I only liked a few DIJ albums and even though I knew that this cd was recorded together with Herr Julius of Der Blutharsch, I wasn’t sure if I should buy it. Then in a shop I heard “Operation Hummingbird” very superficially and I wasn’t really impressed, so I left DIJ for what it was. Now it seems that people are actually right when they say that this cd is actually Der Blutharsch with the voice of Douglas P. and the material is very agreeable. “Take Care” is not a masterpiece, but I like it quite a bit, much more than I expected for sure! And it was only written and recorded in 12 days time! <25/12/00><4>
When I write this, the horrible second album is still in the music reviews section. This debut was said to be a neo-folk cd, which was mostly the reason for me, not to buy it. Boy, when I just bought this one instead of the second!
This debut is quite nice. Nice to very nice neo-folk with male and female vocals. Industrial-like interludes and a few orchestral tunes make this album much more agreeable than “Heimat & Jugend”.
That is funny. Last week I saw Andrew King live because he is on tour with Sol Invictus and Knifeladder. I didn’t really know the man, but it seems that he is on the “Looking For Europe” compilation that I have. Anyway, it is not that I totally like his music, but I wanted to hear some more. I searched the P2P networks, but there is not too much of the man available. Later my eye fell on this title in somebody’s shared folder! I noticed that this limited (500 copies) was sold at the concert, so I decided to review it even though it is a bit older. The Changes songs are nice, but not their best. Andrew King is a folksinger who sings old folksongs, either or not made a bit modern with electronic sounds, instruments or drumming. He has a nice voice and a theatrical performance, but also his songs on this split album are not too great. They are more of the experimental type. But in general this album could be a nice introduction to both artists for people who don’t yet know them. <18/3/07><2>u
Changes –as you probably know- were making what you can call “neofolk” decades before there was neofolk. I am not too crazy about the first album, but I have some compilation contributions which are surely great, so I decided to get the second album anyway. “Orphan In The Storm” is only 35 but most songs are very good and some new to me. A nice album. -14/9/06-
A new neofolk band on Eislicht, should I get it or shouldn’t I? Isn’t neofolk music characterized by not too appealing and too similar sounding bands, especially on Eislicht? Well, maybe this Hungarian band could be an exception. Not so! Cawatana makes tranquil neofolk with keyboards and drumming like any other Eislicht band. Not bad, but not the least bit original. Oh had I only bought the cheap Eislicht sampler (also reviewed)!
Yes I know this cd is ages old. Several times I had been thinking whether or not to buy it and after all these years I did. The “friends” are of course Douglas Pearce and Albin Julius making a controversial trio. It seems to have been mainly Pearce who had a lot of influence on the music. There are many Death In June like songs on this cd, neofolkish and a bit industrial. Here and there are Der Blutharschish elements and there is only one real Boyd Rice track. 13 Short tracks making only 45 minutes, but most tracks are very enjoyable. And as you can see on the cover, a strange trio with a strange kind of humour. This also shows in the music.
I knew this band only by name and from a few mp3 snippets that I heard. I think that they are part of the ‘new generation’ artists in the scene, but apparently they have been around long enough to have a double cd compilation with almost only tracks for which they coorperated with other bands from the scene. Bleiburg itself makes neofolk and industrial (ambient) and so do the bands on this cd, from The Soil Bleeds Black to Thorn-Agram and from Harvest Rain to Vidna Obmana. The first cd is relatively tranquil with ambient and folky pieces, the second cd is a bit harder with more industrial and noisy tracks, but still ambient. Most tracks are actually pretty good and especially with of the variety of cooperators and styles, the cds are still structered well enough to form some kind of unity. A nice release of a band that I didn’t know well enough.