The seventh album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, guitars, keyboards, organs, grand piano and vocals.
Some guests added bass, violin, cello, recorder and bamboo flute.
This album came as a big shock.... both to their fans back in 2006 and to me, this week.
There had been some rumours that the band was writing an accoustic album in the vein of Ulvers Kveldssanger (1996).
Rumours proven right when this album arrived.
All traces of extreme metal has gone here. There is hardly any electric guitars here. The vocals, delivered by Vintersorg, is clear vocals and pretty good ones too. There is a lot of cello and other accoustic instruments.
The music is a mix of folk rock and progressive rock. I would label it as a progressive folk rock. But without that rock bit as there is no rock and hard music here. Progressive folk music ? Yes, that is the perfect label here.
Hence the shock I got when I started to listen to this album......
The music on this thirty-six minutes long album is actually quite good. There is no really good songs here. There are some good pieces of music here though and the details is good.
This is an album well worth checking out if progressive folk music is your thing.
2.5 points
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