STYLE...... Gothic, Neofolk LABEL...... Deeper Waters Records
QUALITY.... 320kbps / FLAC
COUNTRY... Germany
Three years after the last album 'The Whispering Woods', Saline Grace
ist back with the already fifth album 'The Tree of Knowledge' as well as
the single release 'Rooms to Let'and an official music video.
In the focus of this sinister work stands the modern man; on the one
hand within today’s society, but on the other hand as an individual
discovering the challenges within his lifetime. The fable 'Lethal
Anaconda' thematizes the scheduled population exchange under a
dictatorship that is covered up as democracy or there is 'Raven Berta'
telling the biography of a former German rubble woman, who became
impoverished and a laughing stock in the streets of Berlin. The Song
'Individual Case' is worth to be emphasised as the maximum of harsh
social criticism, in which the judicial authorities fail completely and
the parents of a raped and murdered child take the law into their own
hands. The single 'Rooms to Let' tells a tale of loneliness in a modern
metropolis and pieces like 'The Tree of Knowledge', 'Bloody Tears',
'Weeping Wounds' and 'The Descent' unfold the individual that quarrels
with the stages of his life.
The filigree, not uncommonly classical guitar techniques and fingerstyle parts, the voluminous mandolin-like
ornaments or sound carpets and Ennio Moriccone-like twang sounds are
recognisably Ricardo Hoffmann’s, who knows always to create pictorial
synaesthesias raising nightly panoramas from imaginatively enraptured
roadmovies or the imagery of wild and near-natural sceneries. Subtly
woven into a fragile sound stage, mainly consisting of piano, a singing
saw that is acting as a soprano voice, organ, concertina, classical
string arrangements as well as its deeply resonating bass and those dark
jazz drums, the listener is inevitably getting entangled in a sound
experience that is drawing marvellously attention to singer, lyricist,
composer and multi-instrumentalist Ricardo Hoffmann’s emotional
baritone.
For fans of Nick Cave, And Also The Trees and Tindersticks.
Tracklist:
1. The Tree of Knowledge (4:38) 2. Lethal Anaconda (5:08) 3. Raven Berta (4:33) 4. Individual Case (6:26) 5. Autumn Realms (3:46) 6. The Descent (3:26) 7. Rooms to Let (5:29) 8. Grapes (4:41) 9. Bloody Tears (4:41) 10. Skagerrak (3:02) 11. Memories of Winter #2 (3:06) 12. Weeping Wounds (4:24)
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