Annwyn, Beneath the Waves_音乐专辑
Annwyn, Beneath the Waves
表演者: Faith and the Muse
专辑类型: Album
介质: CD
发行时间: 1996
出版者: Tess Records
条形码: 0718750648624
专辑简介
Annwyn, Beneath the Waves holds a special place in my book, because the album's overall quality and creativity carve Faith and the Muse into a niche of their own. Faith and the Muse's scholarly passion for archaic literature and history is especially impressive. I love the way they have included ancient quotes in the lyric book to encapsulate the meaning of each song. Faith and the Muse are perfect for the modern Renaissance enthusiast, because they incorporate Medieval and archaic themes into their music. Several of the songs are ethnically traditional with a Welsh/Old English flair, but if you're searching for upbeat rock songs, several tracks fill that order too. William's sensuous dark voice appears on a few songs adding variety to Monica's singular voice.
- Octavia
OUTBURN/1996
Although more than half its songs work off traditional folk melodies and drumming, Annwyn isn't a medieval concept record or an easy appropriation of cool, romantic old stuff. Modern goth songs such as "Rise and Fall" and "The Hand of Man" explain how Monica Richards and partner William Faith receive visions from other spacetimes through broadband memory (where you remember incidents from other people's lives). The liner notes provide quotes that help unfold these visionary scenes of love and damnation, death and drowning, and myriad aetheric mysteries. Instrumentally, the songs vary from grandiose synth orchestras to bare clicking sticks keeping jig time. Richards' voice is full and warm in churchsong way;"Cernunnos" and "The Dream of Macsen" are broody ambient keyboard tracks with Faith doing emotional monologues on top, and "The Bird of Rhiannon" is elysian noise referring to a species of bird that used its song to bring sleep to the living and waken the dead.
- Anne Kugler
Alternative Press/1996
曲目
1. Annwyn, Beneath the Waves
2. The Silver Circle
3. Cantus
4. The Dream of Macsen
5. Fade and Remain
6. Arianrhod
7. Branwen Slayne
8. Hob Y Derri Dando
9. Cernunnos
10.The Hand of Man
11. The Sea Angler
12.The Birds of Rhiannon
13.Rise and Forget
14. Apparition
