Genre: Folk / Industrial / Experimental
01 Please No Flowers On My Wedding Day
02 Flowers Frames And Forgetfulness
Seven Morgues is an Israeli band performing some kind of experimental folk music, really atmospheric...
Instruments used are : clear guitar, electric guitar, theremin, synths, discrete various oriental percussions, chantings and bells.
At the first glance, the cover directly seems intriguing: so is the music...
The first's track intro , quite long, deals with an anguishing atmosphere made by somehow distant synths, with metallic accents. After some minutes, lower sounds appear. Harmonious notes are present and give something more organic sacral and melancholic to the whole...
After a moment, we can here piano, highly feedbacked electric guitar and chants. The whole sounds ethereal and makes one think to some sacral chants. The rhythm is slow repetitive, the whole music is phrased by the echoed voice, guitars and synths explosions, that occur more and more often...
It's slightly progressive: some kind of bells' noises appear after 12 minutes while the synths reveals other melodic fineries.
The track evolves into a noisier direction with anguishing sounds, sporadic percussions, electronic noises, the return of the main theme...
The second tracks is much shorter (7min) than the first one (27 min).
This one begins with synths sounds, far more appeasing, yet not devoid of a strange dark atmophere...
We note absence of voices, or maybe some choirs-like chants.
Psychedelic, melancholic, hermetic, and: for these reasons and the way this band combines all elements, it is for sure original. On the first track, the formula of alternating calmness of a repetitive and ambient melody with a noisy voice-guitar-synth ensemble intrusion may lose its effect throughout numerous repetitions...
The sound is wide, clear, deep. The atmosphere has this interesting peculiarity ot be at the same time soothing and anguishing, apart from being adequate for meditation and darkly spiritual mindtravelling....
People fond of noisy experimental ambient music will appreciate it, as far as they also appreciate the specific “spiritual”/”mystical”/”religious” ethereal atmosphere of this album.
