My immediate thought is the interesting matriarchal duality, that seems to be suggested immediately, running through the track list. A double-album concept album, fantastic, and if it is the end of the three-tiered sense of programming, it gets off on the right foot. Omnificent enough. Every Moment A Struggle picks up a metaphysical thread, and strikes a chord accordingly. Imagine that there really is no justice, when it comes to sin. Suffering has to be endured to an amount relevant to reasonable equilibrium overall. A believer may not feel he suffers on behalf of Christ, but more generally. Weight not being equal to measure. Harsh for some, but easy for others. Demographically I suspect the weightings to suggest elitism, whichever way you look at it. So, in a nutshell, every moment can be a struggle, disproportionate to your own sense of sinfulness. Figures!
In The Maw. Lovely resonations. Reality or lie, both are an illusion, both are a deception. Join the 'kult' by all means, but it has to be under the provisional understanding that even in the most utopic environment possible, you can never please all the souls at the same time. There is no moment of ultimate awareness of God, in whatever form a person chooses to stretch their imaginations. We are all little individualistic figments in a consciousness that to know would be to be, and that we can never until we are no longer. A never-ending mouth to a hell of a frustrating way to view life perhaps? And, looking at the Choked Horizons, in a thousand years, who is going to care? Could these words, this music, this subjectivism, be the butterfly wing to start a future revolution for the betterment of mankind. Unlikely, but from little acorns...
The sense of open horizons from the Lore album, was more positive. Here it seems more realistic, although I can only justify that with the small print that it is but a snapshot. Nonetheless, I think it applies in a very fundamental way. The barriers and borders of nations are breaking down, one way or another. Informational traffic is overwhelming. Too much, too soon. Though still, for all that enablement, things cannot but look generally bleak, and hope weak. Karma debt in the spiritual credit-crunch! So, what is the archetypal standard, if not gold.
Glacial Movement. Water. Power. Nature. Transformative. Catalytic. Essential. Life-sustaining and ground-breaking. A sense of immensity is captured well in this track. And after all that gradual journeying, to find the edge of the rock spoiled and rancid. A kind of geological purgative, perhaps? Gan Ed'n, I am keep my assumptions loosely to myself, and it kind of fits in an organic way. I like the spread of delicacies herein, so far. Already a fine display for the final volume in the trilogy of revelation. And, I start to wonder do we really deserve a utopia, whether it be forward in time, or backward (sideways even?). Stepping back a bit, one might propose that yes, however, not for all. Which shackles the proposition with the anti-liberalist elitism that has been the source of much trouble, though more a political problem. Elitism tied to the soil, nationalism. The very root of some evil, though there are many roots for mankind to trip over...
So, returning to the duality and the lesser considered duality of the 'virgin' from Parthenogenesis in the Lore album, coupled with the perceived opposite weight and not unreasonably so, a contender. Why not? It makes more than enough sense in terms of equality, if we can not be quite so liberal as to avoid elitism, and a certain amount of filtering. Tempting to delve into the fecundity of Darwinism, but it is not so straightforward, and generally misunderstood. Somewhat too empirical to cover all the bases, but it is something along those lines with the distinct incorporation of the vicious, lack of fairness that may be seen in 'nature' and our understanding relationship to it. The face of Gaia shows itself to mankind, womankind, humankind, and we will equally never know the ultimate mystery, until it is our time. Excellent finish to a fine effort, and although I found Lore a little confusing, overall worth the time to listen, and write a few lines.
Un album sombre, étouffant, oppressant, une lente, mystérieuse et lugubre procession,mécanique presque robotique vers on ne sait quels dédales diaboliques , vers quelques maléfices obscurs elle vous entraîne.
Très dark mais moi, ca me glace un peu.
