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ALETHES - Aletheia

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: Glass Throat Recordings 013
Release Year: 2006
Note: extremely nice oversized "leathery" cover w. black foil stamping
Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.50
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Neo-Folk Debut auf RUHR HUNTERs Glass Throat Recording in unglaublich schönem Cover! Hat uns stimmlich und atmosphärisch an STEVE VON TILL erinnert...

"This wonderful debut original pressing features black foil stamping on obscure black leathery stock! Arising from the verdant soils of Cascadia, Alethes bring us their epic debut album "Aletheia". Originally conceived as ritual, these are five timeless compositions comprised of mournful and warm acoustic guitars, shamanistic percussion, classical strings and deeply ancient vocal harmonies. Digging deep into the Earth and reaching ever higher to the Heavens in the eternal quest for illumination. Alethes emerge from tradition and disappear into Nature's shadows, yearning for a time past, or yet to be, where the ancient fires burn bright and the cycles of life are awarded their proper respect. This is a truly stunning craft folks, filled with deep healing...We strongly recommend!" [label description]
"While the world of indie underground rock continues to fawn over the new free folk movement, Feathers, Banhart, Vetiver, Brightblack, Fursaxa, Faun Fables, Espers and the like, out there, deep in the forest, a similar breed lurks in the shadows, one that shuns the light, and the magazine covers, and the collaborations, choosing instead to pursue their own muse, perform their own rituals, create their own sonic magicks deep in the shade of the wood. Their music is of a much darker hue, drawn from a much more mysterious source, and the results aren't fuzzy or shimmery, they are chaotic, ominous, intense and intensely emotional, a modern folk by way of Comus, via the Wickerman, but without any frilly folk trappings, instead the sound is magical yet murky, morose and moody, a strangely hauntingly creepy crawl. Such is the music of the duo known as Alethes. Doom laced pagan rituals assembled from strummed acoustic guitars, tribal percussion, and growling gravelly vocals. Imagine some impossible mix of Kiss The Anus Of The Black Cat, Comus, Swans, Der Blutharsch, Woven Hand and an acoustic Neurosis. Gorgeously nihilistic, a somber and shadowed forest folk, lilting and lovely but always with some haunting uneasiness lurking right below the surface. A world of Stygian shimmer, of doomic desolation, of blackened beauty. Truly stunning. Gorgeous black glossy print on oversized, fantastically tactile rubberized six panel deluxe fold out sleeve. Wow." [Aquarius Records]