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This is a review of an older recording from Portugal's solo project Urze de Lume which showed the music going for a neo-folk direction with elements of ambient, drone, field recordings. ritual and world music and the album was released in 2023 by Equilibrium Music and called "Vento da Terra Pria".
Field recordings start off the album along with some ambient style synths and ritualistic soundscapes a few seconds later. A couple of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while folk instruments are also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording and the songs also add in a lot of tribal style percussion.
When chants are utilized they also add in more of a shamanistic atmosphere while acoustic guitars are also used quite a bit throughout the album. Most of the songs also stick to more of an instrumental direction along with the album also adding in touches of ethnic and world music and the recording also captures a very medieval atmosphere, a lot of the tracks also sound very different from each other.
On this recording Urze de Lume focuses more on an instrumental style of neo-folk as well as adding in some ambient, drone, ritualistic, field recordings and world music touches to create something very different. The production sounds very dark while the song themes focus on Iberian Paganism and Shamanism.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Urze de Lume and if you are a fan of instrumental and ritualistic neo-folk, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Pastora de Pedras" "Bramas pt. 1" "A Lenta Ruina dos Tempos" and "Cancao a Larouco". 8 out of 10.
https://urzedelume.bandcamp.com/album/ventos-da-terra-fria
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