Search - Dark Muse :: Sounds from Beyond the Silver Wheel

...like tattered scraps of lace in a twilight breeze.

04/17/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Obtuse gothicism blurs and loops into an ethereal wonderland in this hour of shadowy she-spawned eardreams. Rising and falling on eerie waves with vague accents, "Queen of the World of Spirits" calls from faraway with her phantasmal moans. Throbbing ceremonial drums resonate from behind the wispy vocal veils fluttering in "Certain Angst," reminiscent of a homegrown Dead Can Dance. A fogbank drone seeps into/out of "Luna Flow (The Deep)," its gaseous movements obscured by boiling grayness, occasionally gleaming with mysterious energies, rarely identifiable as instrumentation. So nice to have a feminine force operating in such vaporous realms! The mist-ified tinkle of metals is buoyed by a weirdly rolling sonic sea in the slow-simmering abstract murk of "Silver Wheel Flow" (5:22). Muted/mutated strings toll before "Disorder" (11:30) is swallowed in layers of female croonings, swaying like tattered scraps of lace in a twilight breeze. Besides weaving entrancingly dank atmospheres in her Dark Muse mode, Phyll also crafts intricately jeweled adornments at ...eyescreamjewelry.... The seemingly disparate endeavors are in fact entwined. Both sound and jewelry merge Gothic, Victorian, Renaissance, Medieval, Art Nouveau, Celtic, Egyptian and Pagan influences into beguiling new shapes. Decorate your own chambers with the melancholy majesty of "Sounds from Beyond the Silver Wheel."- Review from Ambientrance.org (David Opdyke)"