Review: Wild Birds & Peace Drums - Rivers
Label: Haldern
Pop Recordings Release Date: 11/28/2010
sound like Scandinavia? The Swedish duo Wildbirds & Peace Drums
do the 'Rivers' two very different, each 20-minute "shots" landscapes - rivers, waves, drops, lakes, wells, as some of the song title.
The recently released album "Rivers" is actually a compilation of two EPs "Iris" and "retina" that "will be released on vinyl. In" parallel as 12 retina is accompanied Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werlin by an Icelandic choir. Why .. the subtitle: "Wild Birds & Peace Drums with Voices" This time not only the distinctive voice Wallentin, but that of the choir "With Voices" of the Schola Cantorum in Reykjavik voice is rhythm and rhythm is voice and everything is one - if the songs are only more than a minute
It's about the big issues.. Love, Death and Devil "I do not blame it on bad luck, it's fate" Mariam Wallentin sings in "The Wave". "Fight for Me" on "Iris" by the dramatic rhythm of drums and Steeplan is worn. The bubbling sound of the steelpan and the drums are recorded dry balm for the tortured soul of overproduction. In "Retina" it is the dense intensity of the multi-part a cappella singing of the choir and Wallentin, which accounts for the einehmende mood of the song. The principle here is lined velvet Minmalismus with a warm layer of human voice. The analogous reduction can be a view of a broad musical background and the comparison to Björk results not only because of geographical proximity. The voice as an instrument - that is the pop since Björk not been used as effectively as here.
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