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/:: Artist :: Grylle ::\
:: Album :: Les Grandes Compagnies ::
:: Year :: 2019 ::
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:: . Genre :: Black Metal Source :: CDDA . ::
:: Label :: Antiq Records R.date :: 2019.05.27 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: N/A Size :: 127,01 MB __::_
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. Quality :: 44,1kHz/Joint Stereo .
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Website :: https://antiqrecords.com/bands/grylle
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:: 01. En la forest dennuyeuse tristesse 03:49 ::
:: 02. Les DerniΦres FΘes de France 05:38 ::
:: 03. France, qui te veult mal? 08:07 ::
:: 04. Gothique Anjevin 09:47 ::
:: 05. Hommaje a la Pomme de Pin 03:45 ::
:: 06. Loz en Croissant 06:55 ::
:: 07. Que chacun sonje a se pourvoir! 07:25 ::
:: 08. Les guerres Picrocholines 07:16 ::
:: 09. Quand je bois du vin clairet 02:22 ::
:: 10. Le Pacte des Villes 06:17 ::
:: 11. Wir Zogen in das Feld 03:44 ::
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:: Les Grandes Compagnies presents 11 tracks and more than an ::
:: hour of music. Becoming immersed in it is quite easy. ::
:: Leaving it behind 65 minutes later is very difficult. In ::
:: some ways it's like a time-traveling journey many centuries ::
:: into the past, but not exactly like that. Rather than a ::
:: pathway into a long-gone world that once did exist, it's ::
:: perhaps more like being transported into a world of the ::
:: imagination, an ingenious hybrid of the ancient and the ::
:: modern that exists only there. ::
:: ::
:: The singular imagination that brought forth the album ::
:: belongs to Hyvermor, a Frenchman who composed these 11 ::
:: tracks, wrote the lyrics (borrowing from some old sources), ::
:: and performed them with such instruments as flutes, ::
:: psalterion, luthe, santoor, bass, and drums. He shared the ::
:: vocal responsibilities with Griesche, who also performed ::
:: flutes. And to further embellish the richness of the ::
:: experience, he enlisted these guests in his own grande ::
:: compagnie: ::
:: ::
:: Trumpet, Saxhorn and Buggle Horn: Lazareth (Peste Noire, ::
:: Anceisural Eritance, Braquemaard) ::
:: Mandolin: Bj÷rn (Peste Noire (live), Lemovice) ::
:: Vocals: Monarque (Monarque, Sanctuaire, Sacrenoir) ::
:: Krummhorn, Violas: Eduardo Antonello ::
:: ::
:: You won't find a single electric guitar in these lists of ::
:: instruments. If you're like me, you won't miss them for an ::
:: instant. ::
:: ::
:: How, you may ask, can music be located within the realms of ::
:: black metal when it has no electric guitar and a profusion ::
:: of old acoustic instruments in its place? In part, it is a ::
:: matter of the vocals, which are usually harsh and ugly - ::
:: serrated, strangled, and scorching. In part it is a matter ::
:: of the spirit and mood of the music, which is quite variable ::
:: but generally cast in melancholy, bitter, and diabolical ::
:: moods. That's part of the hybrid quality of the songs; in ::
:: addition to that, the music often rocks to the movement of ::
:: head-moving drum beats that hadn't been invented 500 years ::
:: ago. (Yes, you can head-bang to medieval music when it's ::
:: paired with drumming this potent.) ::
:: ::
:: The music has a vivid sound, with the slight echo of a ::
:: performance in a chamber of old stone, with spires and ::
:: gargoyles standing guard. The melodies are irresistibly ::
:: beguiling, made magical by that feeling of being transported ::
:: to another time and place drastically different from our ::
:: own. An edge of danger occasionally surfaces. The music also ::
:: becomes soft, introspective, and lush in its richness. Every ::
:: song begins to seem like a present being unwrapped, each one ::
:: providing some new dark joy. ::
:: ::
:: The first time through the album, I felt like a light-headed ::
:: adolescent, falling in love with each new song, each one ::
:: like some new intoxicating sight passing me on the sidewalk, ::
:: and then the next one, and the one that came next, each one ::
:: turning my head with different allure. Some are mystical and ::
:: haunting; some are lilting, and they dance. Some are steeped ::
:: in loss, others are as bright as a wilderness stream in the ::
:: sun, but just as lonely. ::
:: ::
:: The character of the instruments is an enormous part of the ::
:: appeal. I grew up in the American South, and some of the ::
:: strumming has the backwoods resonance of a banjo, evoking ::
:: waves of nostalgia, even if those aren't banjos. The flute ::
:: melodies are like spells. The bowing of the violas swings ::
:: like an old folk dance, and weeps wretched tears. Sometimes ::
:: you can hear Celtic airs, but the Celts seemed to be ::
:: everywhere if you go back far enough. ::
:: ::
:: And the instrumentation changes from song to song. The album ::
:: seems calculated to give you a new sound of some kind with ::
:: each one. Even by the eighth track, an instrumental named ::
:: "Quand je bois du vin clairet", which seemed to lead with an ::
:: accordion (but it isn't that instrument), I was still ::
:: discovering surprises. And it doesn't stop there. The ::
:: vocals, by the way, shift as well, with clean song (both ::
:: male and female) making almost as much of a contribution as ::
:: all the goblin throats. ::
:: ::
:: The music sparkles so often, yet is in pain. It whirls in ::
:: delight, but lives on dirt floors and doesn't have enough to ::
:: eat. It sounds much more like the music of peasants than of ::
:: lords. There is evanescent glory to be found here, and the ::
:: agony of burying dead children. The joy in the music is ::
:: fleeting and ever-haunted by the presence of death, the ::
:: sounds of life when it knew it could be cut down suddenly, ::
:: or in lingering misery, in its prime (and usually was). ::
:: ::
:: But despite the long shadows in these sounds, there's so ::
:: much vibrancy, so much black magic. A truly remarkable ::
:: album. ::
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