Welcome to the world of dreams. Trobar de Morte invites us to take the most precious of trips, to where everything we wish for becomes reality. Their music is the elixir that allows us to escape from the tedious and frenetic world of reality to venture into a world of fantasy.
"Reverie" is the second work of this Catalan group, after the successful "Fairydust" already mentioned in the virtual pages of Mentenebre. If the first CD was of the highest quality, this second one is not far behind. It is a pride to have bands of such a high level in the Spanish scene and within the neoclassical and medieval styles that Trobar de Morte's paths follow.
Trobar de Morte - "Reverie"As I anticipated in the first lines of this comment, "Reverie" proposes a trip to the world of dreams. The album is structured with a song as a prologue and another as an epilogue and between them there are three sections dedicated to the first one about dreams that never end, the second to ancient dreams and the third to medieval dreams. Just by watching this presentation we can already sense that the content of the CD is going to be delightful. Thus we are offered a kind of escapism, forgetting about the harsh everyday reality and crossing the barrier between the real and the dreamlike.
Trobar de Morte's musical style makes more sense in this second work. Although it has clear musical influences, one can nevertheless speak of a sense of personality in their work. Their influences tend towards medieval and neoclassical bands, for example there is a clear imprint of bands like Dead Can Dance (blessed influence) that is very evident in 'Yule: The End of Darkness', in 'Calling the Rain' and in 'Arabian Night', which almost seem to be made by the Australians themselves. Other references to mention could be Ordo Equitum Solis, which leaves its mark on the way of singing or on the medievalist halos, in songs like 'Secret People', I could also mention influences from Arcana or sToa, to name a few.
This arcane aftertaste is achieved through ancient instruments, such as the darbuka, the medieval horn, the crotalo, the bells, traditional percussion, the flute, the violin, etc., which is greatly appreciated because the atmosphere they create is much more authentic than that achieved through programming. It is also worth highlighting the vocal section, mainly led by Lady Morte, whose musical registers move very comfortably between low and high notes depending on the style of each piece. In addition, she also recites passages sometimes in Spanish and sometimes in Latin, an element that gives an air of proclamation to the songs in which she appears, 'Tempos Fugit' and 'Excalibur'.
All of this is presented in a beautiful digipack decorated with fairies, forests and castles, very much in keeping with the musical essence that we are going to find inside. The design has been done by Victoria Francés of Norma Editorial.
As a consequence of the above, I have to rate this work as outstanding, and it also allows us to affirm that Trobar de Morte is currently a bastion within Spanish dark music, which seems to be slowly opening up a space in the international dark scene.
If you want to escape for a while from your daily chores and you feel like transporting yourself to the dream worlds of lost times where nymphs and fairy tale creatures live, Trobar de Morte and this "Reverie" are the perfect elixir.
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