A cult formation in the
Gothic brotherhood with neo-classical trend,
Ophelia's Dream continues his quest initiated by the excellent "All Beauty is
Sad" with the equally superb second album although enigmatic "
Not a Second Time. "
All the qualities that illuminated the first work are present, but have increased tenfold, hundredfold, magnified, for a clear result of a perfection and a rare orchestral intensity, affecting the ultimate result and reducing to ashes the entire notion of mediocrity . No superlative is strong enough to describe the inspiration and the brilliant work of composition Dietmar Greulich, who has truly exceeded to achieve a legendary masterpiece, transcended by the use of a multitude of instruments violin, piano, flute, acoustic guitar, ... and thousands more with sounds from around the world.
The sound is impeccable and the interpretation is flawless, to fully appreciate the great diversity of environments developed throughout the small hour-long album, making thrilling listening from beginning to end. You enter a level with a sublime opening fiddle tune the masterful "
Lady Magdalene", a piece at once sad and wonderful, but above all lived through an epic that will never leave any of 13 other compositions that they are focused on melancholic moods ("Egredimini" All Beauty Is
Lost "), medieval (" Amica Mea, "or" Saltarno "sounding like a reminiscence of" Saltarello "by
Dead Can Dance) and mystical (" De Torrente "" Quae
Dementia "and its bombastic chorus chanting litanies bewitching). The hypnotizing is total, to the point that we almost forget the staff changes that occurred to the position of a singer, the lovely Susanne Stierle who replaced the exquisite Julia Tiedje.
Replacement passing almost unnoticed because the female voice has never been the main component of the music of
Ophelia's Dream. What does not render its contribution negligible. Instead, there's delicious to listen to vocalizations of "
Lady Magdalene" and "Ladonna Wosh" ... It's art!
In conclusion (and epitaph ...),
Ophelia's Dream invites us to "
Danse Macabre" in a last waltz with him before making his final bow. Conscious approach to the composer, resulting from the feeling of having achieved this album with some form of fulfillment and preferring to leave on a bang rather than risk a hypothetical descent into hell, or mere coincidence? Difficult to glimpse the truth, and everything that we can say is that, with hindsight, this "Dance
Macabre" was already a grim omen for the fate of the German band.
Anyway, we could not imagine a more beautiful tomb in memory of the training, which will, in the space of just two albums, left his unalterable seal the small world of neo-classical and has earned his right to into legend forever.
Ophelia's Dream is dead ... Long live
Ophelia's Dream!
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