REVIEW: MAUDLIN OF THE WELL - BATH

 

MAUDLIN OF THE WELL - BATH (Dark Symphonies, 2001):

Technical data:

Recorded at Zing Recording Studios.

Engineered by Jim Fogarty

Mastered at Peerless Mastering by Jeff Lipton

Track List: 1- The Blue Ghost/ Shedding Qliphot, 2- They aren´t all Beautiful, 3- Heaven and Weak, 4- the Ferryman, 5- Marid´s Gift of Art, 6- Girl with a Watering Can, 7- Birth pains of Astral Projection, 8- Geography

This is one half of what Maudlin of The Well offers this time (The other half is called "Leaving your Body Map" and I will comment on that one later). The result is great, being this two CD set one of my favorite albums of the year... going from extremely calm and exotic tracks like the opening "The Blue Ghost/Shedding Qliphot" to the death/blast "They aren´t all beautiful without a pause. But the main feature in Maudlin of the Well´s music is experimentation through different rhythms, includding some odd-time signature tempos, melodies, instrumentation (use of saxophones, clean guitars, and all they can put his hands on), atmospheres (all of this you can find even within only one song here), different vocalizations, etc, etc.. Each song here is a world on its own, with subtle details that make each of them unique and lots of changes within them (there must be dozens of changes within each track...really difficult and technical). Bow down to receive Maudlin´s latest offering. Buy or die !!!. Favorite tracks: the whole album from beginning to end. Contact: www.darksymphonies.com