Dok (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cyberinsekt) wrote,@ 2008-08-03 10:33:00 |
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Trial of the Bow - The Promise
Listening to bands such as Trial of the Bow makes me feel guilty. It's the aural equivalent of fondant cake: anything that tastes quite so delicious as this can't possibly be doing me any good. And yet I still go back, time and again, for one last nibble, until all that remain are a few crumbs on a paper doily.
Like Dead Can Dance, Trial of the Bow hail from Melbourne. And also like Dead Can Dance, they produce a stately music full of "exotic" instrumentation and melodies and a tidy dose of faux mediaevalism, all recorded with a production so intimate it sounds like the band are breathing into your ears. Aesthetically speaking, it's entirely reprehensible. Or at least it would be, if it didn't all sound quite so gorgeous. Here's The Promise, from their 1997 album Rite of Passage. It's a track that has no merit whatsoever, apart from sounding bloody fantastic.
Trial of the Bow - The Promise
Listening to bands such as Trial of the Bow makes me feel guilty. It's the aural equivalent of fondant cake: anything that tastes quite so delicious as this can't possibly be doing me any good. And yet I still go back, time and again, for one last nibble, until all that remain are a few crumbs on a paper doily.
Like Dead Can Dance, Trial of the Bow hail from Melbourne. And also like Dead Can Dance, they produce a stately music full of "exotic" instrumentation and melodies and a tidy dose of faux mediaevalism, all recorded with a production so intimate it sounds like the band are breathing into your ears. Aesthetically speaking, it's entirely reprehensible. Or at least it would be, if it didn't all sound quite so gorgeous. Here's The Promise, from their 1997 album Rite of Passage. It's a track that has no merit whatsoever, apart from sounding bloody fantastic.
Trial of the Bow - The Promise
