The release of this Fauna album have been anticipated for the last four years for it is the one most complete and reflecting Fauna mood in the best way. Momentary cut of the surrounding world and feeling of eternity are equally inherent to each track of this record. Hymn to the emptiness, to its so varied phenomena is the essence and deep meaning of Have U Ever Talked To Angels?
Inner and outer emptiness, emptiness in relations, emptiness as sensation and as physical state, the never-ending whirlpool capturing the listener from the very first track and keeping intense up to the very end. And even further, after the music stops and it becomes quiet one starts to understand this quietness as nothing but the album continuation: its final chord, the echo which was not heard lately. This music, fancifully weaved of the tiny validity pieces, lets us think deep and reveal inside ourselves that very emptiness which permits to hear everything so well.
This has always been here, flying in the air, being hidden behind the sharp angles of the society cruel by intention, that there is practically nothing to oppose to. Nothing perhaps, except for revelations similar to Have U Ever Talked To Angels? We say revelations because they never shout themselves, never hurt the eye or bother the soul, never appear at once. To find them one needs to possess the courage and boldness of traveler, or, at least, is to be able to feel…
Pity that those courageous for such a journey are fewer and fewer left. Besides, there are fewer of those who can answer the question: Have U Ever Talked To Angels? And we are absolutely certain that there is nobody to ask a question like this.
Fauna:
Vadim Drusinov
Sergey Beliakov
Sergey Alekseev
Additional musicians:
Natalia Careva - voices on tracks Slowly, Dreamless, Wasteland, Tomorrow, Hollow Morning
Edgar Hermann - guitar, voice on track Emptiness
Maksim Drusinov - voice on track 14th floor
Janine Alieva - voice on track Dreamless
Music composed, arranged and engineered by Fauna
Public relations and translation assistance by Ekaterina Melikhova
Cover design by Maria Bogdanova (www.anothermemo.nm.ru)
Photographs by Germina
Special thanks to:
Ekaterina Milkhova
Sergey Baranov
Max Porcelli
NetAudio.ru
Maria Bogdanova
Dmitry Dee Shoder
Homework
Akira Yamaoka
D Swan
Edgar Hermann
Jinxie
Suhan
Thiery Massard
Pablo Escobar
Dmitry Vasiliev
The tracks of this album are published under a Creative Commons licence, check the licence associated to each track.
Reviews for "Have u ever talked to angels?"
35 reviews
Merci à michka pour sa découverte, (il fait bon aller "pêcher" dans les nouveautés...histoire de faire des variations avec "les albums populaires de la semaine".)
Je vais tenter de résister à une critique détaillée, mais le 2ème morceau est subjuguent, alors, il faut l'écouter et entrer dans une ambiance à la fois fascinante et dérangeante (effets vocaux)
La richesse du Trip Hop est bien dans cette capacité à nous offrir des univers émotionnels particuliers, j'adore ces voyages...(esprits rationnels s'abstenir)
Univers sans rêve, vide..."Hymne à la vacuité"
"Hollow Morning", même registre ou les instruments et les voix se mêlent de façon superbe, quelle maitrise!!
Des" matins creux" rien n'appelle à une vie faite d'espoir, mais la musique transcende ce vide , elle en fait un miracle..
Ce groupe est "habité" ça se sent, et leur hymne à la vacuité prend tout son sens.
"Hyperite Love" est puissant avec des tempos super
"Rainbaw":l'électro est magnifié par les voix: BRAVO!
"Tomorrow" comment se présente le lendemain, car il y en a un quand même, l'ampleur musicale est comme une réponse, alors disons: "tant qu'il y a de la musique, il y a de l'espoir"....Fin crépusculaire....
BRAVO à ce groupe, je suis admirative!!
et merci à eux de nous offrir leur musique sur jamendo
As soon as I started to listen to this album, I feel under its spell and was taken on a journey into an fantastic wonderful place called "triphop", I felt all my senses, become one, with this outstanding, magical, beautiful, moving album.
Aah enfin un vrai album de triphop, que ça fait du bien !
J'ai du mal à trouver les mots dire mon enthousiasme dès les premières notes de l'album : c'est beau, puissant, envoutant, féérique, dark, mélodieux, mélancolique,aérien... exceptionnel !
Merci beaucoup pour ce superbe album :D
Gefällt mir richtig gut. Sehr gut gemacht. Ruhige Musik, downtempo, chillout, triphop - gut gemischt. Die Instrumente und Sounds sowie Stimmern wechseln sich gut ab, nichts ist überladen. Und vor allem gibt es schöne Melodien, was deutlich zur entspannenden Wirkung der Musik beiträgt.
Cet album m'a complètement embarqué dans un univers Dark exceptionnel. Planant, enivrant. On ressens bien le top niveau. Superbe qualité d'enregistrement
un vrai régal sur mp3. Merci pour ce sublime voyage
Et merci à mon amie Sandrine pour la reco
vraiment un bon album, merci beaucoups !
En passant j'adore la pochette, superbe photo !
Magico, misterioso, struggente, suadente...
MERAVIGLIOSO!!!
Одлично напред!
I haven’t found a record that doesn’t lack anything on jamendo for a lomg time, so when I found Fauna’s - Have u ever talked to angels I was more than happy. This subtle dark-trip hop album is what a Creative Commons connoiseur may really appreciate. Almost every piece there is worthy listener’s attention, so let’s talk about each of them.
Slowly – very engaging, atmospheric piece with great vocals and extremely interesting rhythm section. The words are quite gloomy, but that’s why it’s called trip-hop and not pop.
14th floor – one may see Portishead’s influence here, but it’s got such an intense mood that one may not take it as a vice, but an advantage.
Daily sick, casual sick – great samples, a deep-dark mood, exactly the way it should be.
Dreamless – it gets more melodic there, but more in Mo’Wax or Warp style than Aguillera one. Add very professional use of reverbs in production and one may imagine what’s the piece like.
Emptiness – the composition has nice vocal samples and space-like atmosphere (some Kid Koala influence, perhaps?) and it’s a little bit ambiental but still it doesn’t lose this specific Fauna touch.
Hollow morning – that one is a real masterpiece. Natalia Careva (a featuring vocalist here) takes us into a dreamy, sentimental trance trip one won’t forget soon.
Wasteland – the tune clashes between 20’s samples and Portishead-like mood. Yummy.
Hyperlite love – I think the most electronic one on the record. Solid, however a little bit uninventive compared with the rest of the record.
Rainbawl – next electronic one. A tune that very neatly mixes female voice with almost Kraftwerk–like sounds.
Tomorrow – a nice, melancholic goodbye, reminding me a little bit of Tryad’s tunes.
It’s ten out of ten, ladies and gentelmen. I can’t wait to hear their next album, really.
stay cool,
galaktycznyzwiad
