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Valley of the Withered River

by Melnar Tilromen

rock folk dark acoustic guitar

11 tracks

46:58

1	Day of Wrath	4:03
2	The Dance	4:27
3	Valley of the Withered River	5:41
4	On Deathbed	4:02
5	Despair	3:56
6	Neophyte	5:33
7	Faery Juice	3:24
8	Opposition of S.& M	4:03
9	Harvest is Ripened	4:42
10	The Autumn	3:43
11	Night on the Hills	3:24

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lunar_train

Boris Christoff meets Dead Can Dance

23/07/09

Looking for Celtic/Gothic rock on behalf of a friend (and having received a few very nice recommendations in private, for artists on and outside Jamendo) I discovered this beautiful surprise.

The dark/Gothic element in music is a trap. It can lead to a tendency of giving more attention to appearences than to essence, which is why many of the albums dedicated to this genre seem to have all the necessary "packaging" but unfortunately lack in verve and truth.

But there is no fanfare here; only simplicity, sobriety, tenderness - and most important of all, sincerity. Everything depends on the particularity of the singer's voice (a rich and expressive baritone with a remote echo of Boris Christoff), the delicate instrumentations and unpretentious but solemn and imposing melodies. There is genuine beauty and passion, poetry inherent in each note, creating a magical atmosphere of dark but enticing fairy tale.

I don't understand a word of what you are singing, but at the end of the album I had tears in my eyes and a feeling of purification in my soul.

Thank you.