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К этому релизу я испытываю сразу два противоположных чувства – с одной стороны, музыка попсовая и слащавая до безобразия, с другой – «попсовость» никак не вяжется с самобытностью команды и грамотностью музыкантов. Альбом действительно профессионален, многослоен, при этом качество материала не имеет ничего общего с так называемым унылым «профессионализмом», чаще всего находящим приют под опекой крупных лейблов. Silent Stream of Godless Elegy играют созерцательный (а местами игриво-озорной) фольк-дум со множеством классических инструментов (особенно выделяется виолончель), перкуссией, женским вокалом, мощным дэтовым гроулом и едва заметными психоделическими нотками. Традиционных для рядового дэт-дум-метала минорных настроений у чехов не наблюдается вовсе – даже легкой печали, за что «думовую» приставку можно поставить под вопрос. А вот неоклассическая/фольковая составляющая у команды проработана на «отлично» – путаная, словно клубок ниток и изящная, как виньетки в рукописных книгах – в этом разделе наблюдается истинная феерия. Металическая же часть простовата – все длинные мелодии отданы на откуп «классическим» инструментам, гитарные соло не встречаются вовсе, риффы по-фольковому просты, да и существуют, похоже, для привнесения необходимой тяжести и только. Материал имеет дурную привычку сразу же погружать слушателя в себя, не принимая отговорок на простоту, слащавость и провинциальность, которые при ином раскладе его погубили бы. Если уж Estatic Fear с их неоклассическими замашками были явными аристократами этого стиля, то данная чешская формация взялась занять нишу более свойской и не столь высоколобой музыки – при этом качеством ничуть не ниже.
Просто наинеобходимейшая работа для всех ценителей ранних работ норвежцев Atrox или эстетов-любителей Estatic Fear и Empyruim. Лично я, плюясь от возмущения, крутил ее раза три подряд… |
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I'm basking in the sunshine - boy look at me
Look at me boy when I smile
Look at me boy when I dance
Look at me boy - I'm singing
Look at me boy - I call wind
Like a forest like a flute
I'm hiding under tones
Soil and sound - bang and tree
Will stroke me when I'm dancing
Soil and sound - bang and tree
Will stroke when I dance
Look at me boy - I smell sweet
Look at me boy - I'm breathing
Like a meadow I turn green
Like a flower never seen
Playing - flying - like a string
Stretching - sounding - in the wind
Look at me boy - I'm singing
- I look at you - girl - singing
Look at me boy - I call wind
- I look at you - girl - call wind
Like a forest like a flute
- like a forest like a flute
I'm hiding under tones
- you're hiding under tones
Soil and sound - bang and tree
- soil and sound - bang and tree
Will stroke me when I'm dancing
- will stroke you when you dance
Soil and sound - bang and tree
- soil and sound - bang and tree
Will stroke when I dance
- stroke you when you dance
2. To Face The End
I know - I know this tale
Find out - this is the end
I know - I know this tale
She's alone - with her pain
I see him - see him mad
Indeed I know - this is the end
This morrow I awoke little bit sooner
By the strange sense I'm guilty of a sin
Goin' away to the field I'm workin' at all the day
Oh god, could you rescue me?
Why not?! Why not my god?
This is the way - how to kill her pain
I see her - but I don't dare
To face her doom - to face the end
Oh my god! Am I blame?
Crying lake... oh god, could you rescue me?
River is getting dark red like scale in our bed
Am I blame? Oh god, could you rescue me?
I know - I know why
She couldn't try to - try to fly
We all saw her - but didn't dare
Try to, try to fly...
3. I Would Dance
I would get up, get up, my beloved, go to the fields
We'll cut the grass, we'll spread the hay
Now, my love...
I would get up, get up, my beloved, run to the hills
We'll bake the bread, we'll dress our wounds
Come, my love...
I would dance my love
Take me
This evening I would dance my love
Take me
We wear down this night
I will close my eyes
Kiss me
This evening I will close my eyes
Kiss me
We wear down this night
I would get up, get up, my beloved, go to the fields
We'll cut the grass, we'll spread the hay
Now, my love...
I would get up, get up, my beloved, run to the hills
We'll bake the bread, we'll dress our wounds
Come, my love...
I would dance my love
Take me
This evening I would dance my love
Take me
We wear down this night
I will close my eyes
Kiss me
This evening I will close my eyes
Kiss me
We wear down this night
I would dance my love
Take me
This evening I would dance my love
- dance my love
Take me
We wear down this night
I will close my eyes
Kiss me
This evening I will close my eyes
- come my love
Kiss me
We wear down this night
Alone I twist a wreath
For you
- for me
My darling now I twist a wreath
- alone
Alone
I mourn for you love...
4. Together
Hidden deep - in mother earth - together - but not as one
In pure love - so close they stay - together - but not as one
Now hidden deep - in mother earth - but not as one - they dwell
Now - deep - in mother earth
Hidden deep - in mother earth - but not as one
Now we pray to our gods - to make a miracle
To fall together - in doom's embrace both as one
The only what remains of them - two drops of blood blazing
In the first one flame of her - in the other flame of his
Together - but not as one
Now we pray to our gods - to make a miracle
To fall together - in doom's embrace both as one
And now hidden deep we are - in mother earth together
5. You Loved The Only Blood
Grim reaper came - from mountain peaks
Came to the boy and his young girl
Grim reaper came - from fiery hills
There's only one who can survive
Crying is heard - black death comes now
There's only crying - there's only child
Crying is heard 'cause she's coming now
You loved the only blood
Tearful time came - plague walked away
And you have a scarf at door flying
Tearful time came - 'cause she took her
'cause nothing stays the same as was before
The bell is heard - singing from hill
It can bring life the same as it can kill
The bell is heard - whispering the doom
You loved the only blood
Twenty years have passed like a raft down river oder stream
Beautiful girl came into house with her beloved boy
Crying is heard again - it was her love
Which brought that happiness into your heart
Reaper comes now - from mountain peaks
You want to meet him with a smile on lips
Reaper comes now - from mountain peaks
He wants to meet you as he wants to reap
The bell is heard - singing its grief
It's only sin what your life has achieved
The bell is heard - singing its grief
You loved the only blood
6. Lonely
Lonely at night - dark - bellman and time - snow under feet
Lonely in snow - cold - and under ice - tarrying white fate
Lonely - by day and night - crying in room
Only calm that remains at the end of day
Lonely - golden corn stooks - lightning from sky
And again one more cross at the end of the day
Lonely at day - shine - midday witch comes - for lonely child
Lonely at home - calm - and somewhere out - tarrying your fate
Lonely - by day and night - crying in room
Only - calm that remains - at the end of day
Lonely - golden corn stooks - lightning from sky
And again one more cross at the end of the day
7. Gigula
[instrumental]
8. Trinity
From three directions...
And the one from the west rides on a robust steed
Into their heart he put his war art
Under the hooves of horses he planted dragon's teeth
To prevent everybody from taking their pride
Silent wind is singing that people live now
Silent wind is singing to show us the way
And the one from the east led a bull
Into their heart he put his ploughed fields
From under the hooves of bulls he reaped dragon's teeth
To prevent everybody from taking their pride
And the one from the south came barefooted
Into their heart he put how to be a wise
Then he changed the teeth into people with his hands
Nobody will attempt to take our pride now
Silent wind...
From three directions the best ones stood here
To see a new nation through themselves
From three directions the best ones stood here
Nobody will attempt to take their pride
Silent wind...