Caverna Delle Rose – Elysian Chants (Album – Slaughter In Art)
Genre/Influences: Ritual.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Caverna Delle Rose is a new project driven by AimA (Les Jumeaux Discordants, Allerseelen), Evor Ameisie (NRTHGTE, Camerata Mediolanense) and Diego Cinquegrana. This album wants to be a ‘bridge between ancient practices and beliefs and contemporaneity.” The debut album features seven ‘Orphic Hymns’ plus a song of creation.
Content: From the very first notes and chants of the album you perceive the strong Ritual input. The vocals sometimes have something Ethereal as well, but music and vocals/chants together create the path to a mystic journey. The Ritual style has been accentuated by the percussion while the dark electronic atmospheres reveal a hostile sphere. A guest musician plays cello parts on a few songs, this way injecting extra darkness.
+ + + : This album took me by surprise for its instantly Ritual approach. The power of the vocals mixing Ritual- and Ethereal styles has something bewitching. But there also is a great symbiosis with the music, which through its overwhelming sound waves and subtle field recordings reaches a state of climax, a kind of sonic ecstasy coming through at “To The Fates”. The work also has inhibited parts, even intimate and feeling as a caress to your mind. Every single song of this album has something joyful.
– – – : I don’t see real minus points; this is a great piece of music.
Conclusion: The debut album of Caverna Delle Rose is an accomplished and brilliant exposure of intelligent Ritual music.
Best songs: “To The Fates”, “To Corybas”, “To The Furies”, “To The West Wind”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: https://cavernadellerose.com / www.facebook.com/cavernadellerose
Label: www.slaughterinart.com / www.facebook.com/Slaughterinart
About Caverna Delle Rose
Caverna Delle Rose is an Italian project formed by AimA Lichtblau, also active in Les Jumeaux Discordants and Allerseelen, Evor Ameisie of Nrthgte and Camerata Mediolanense, and Diego Cinquegrana. Flautist Laura Manescalchi plays on the recordings, and Evor Ameisie adds baritone vocals and percussion.
The debut album “Elysian Chants” was released in 2021 by the French label Slaughter In Art on CD and as a limited vinyl LP. The trio followed it with the limited numbered EP “Tenebris Secundis” in 2023.
AimA explained the working method behind the project in Click Interview with Caverna Delle Rose: ‘Creation Is A Kind Of Trance’.
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