Genre: Ambient / Electronic

01 Moon Prayer
02 Transdimensional Vehicle
03 Wings
04 Calm Within The Electric Storm
05 Neural Chatter
06 Fire From Inside
07 Tiny Creatures
08 Awake And Release
09 Portals Of Time
10 Peach
11 Eat Me For Fun
12 I See My Mother

“Dark Goddess” CD is the result of JC Mendizabal and Vivian Triantafillou collaboration, issued via JC Mendizabal’s label – Black Note Music. JC Mendizabal aka Ki-rin is a musician who stands after Kyron. He has musical education (graduated with a speciality in Music composition and Electronic music) and used to compose music in different genres: from classical to industrial. His music is not just an attempt to create some sequence of sounds, but an experiment with shamanic and magical traditions.

Believe me, if you don’t have any information about what you’re going to listen to or about the person who recorded this CD, it is difficult to guess what kind of material is on the album. So in my opinion, CD cover doesn’t represent well what is inside. When I first saw it, I thought it was going to be some kind of industrial-metal or a mix between metal/noise/EBM, so something in that vein. Because what you see is chaotic colorfull patterns/pieces as a background and a person in the middle. Now when I listened to the CD, I’m sure that in my mind it is difficult to combine the image I get looking at the cover and images I get listening to music. There’s much more mystery in the music, it has some secret, some intrigue that is lacking in the cover. If the music is the mix between contemporary/accessible and sacred/inaccessible, then the cover seems to correspond more with the first part than the second.

Insane vocal improvisations with the hint on witchcraft sometimes make me think to vocals in Aghast, satanic ambient project, and The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, very talanted neofolk ambient band that no longer exists. It seemed to me that vocals create the whole mood of this work. First track was calm, chilling out. I immediately thought about the title of the album, because it was quite unpredictable. But eventually the rest of the piece corresponds with the main theme very well. Many images pass by your eyes: little evil creatures in dungeons, lightened with torches, witche’s sabbath, trolls from the old tales rise in your imagination in “Tiny creatures” track. Mystic narrations are changed by chaotic and noisy guitar-featured passages or ritual-ish drumming. Somehow it sounds like an attempt to combine contemporary approach to creation of music (rhythms, instruments, track structures) and some spiritual elements (narrations, ritual drumming) in order to present sometimes relaxing, sometimes scary and anxious soundscapes. You cannot help feeling that you’re present at some sacred event, dark ritual.