Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Joy Of Nature/The Empty Circle Part II Rastos de Sangue e fragmentos de Tradicao/Ahnstern/2009 CD Review


The Joy Of Nature are a band from Portugal that mixes neo-folk with experimental music and this is a review of their 2009 album "The Empty Circle Part II Rastos de Sangue e fragmentos da Tradicao" which was released by Ahnstern.

Acoustic guitars are mostly full chords and finger picking that brings out with feel of the dark age with a lot of other folk instruments and percussion being used that gives the music a tribal and shamanistic feel mixed in with some noise elements that bring the  experimental side to the music.

Vocals are all clean singing male and female vocals with some spoken word passages., while the lyrics are written in Portuguese and it is about the spiritual inheritance of the ancestors of that country, as for the production it is very dark and ancient sounding.

In my opinion The Joy of Nature are a very good experimental neo-folk band that should appeal to all fans of this genre. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Tancheo" "Sete Cidares" "Por Tua Saudade" and "O Corjeto Sinstro das Sombres". RECOMMENDED BUY.

https://thejoyofnature.bandcamp.com/

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