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Titelverzeichnis
| 1 | Darkest Hour |
| 2 | Melancholia |
| 3 | Descent into Madness |
| 4 | House of Usher |
| 5 | Madeline's Lament |
| 6 | Haunted Memories |
| 7 | Annabel Lee |
| 8 | Legacy of Sorrow |
| 9 | Black Cat |
| 10 | Cask of Amontillado |
| 11 | Mysteries of the Night |
| 12 | Midnight Dreary |
| 13 | Raven |
| 14 | Morbid Reminiscence |
| 15 | Lenore |
| 16 | Dream Within a Dream |
| 17 | Tell-Tale Heart |
| 18 | Murders in the Rue Morgue |
| 19 | Pit and the Pendulum |
| 20 | Masque of the Red Death |
| 21 | Nevermore |
Produktbeschreibungen
Kurzbeschreibung
Delve into the haunted realms of Edgar Allan Poe, as Nox Arcana pays tribute to the classic tales of the literary master of the macabre with a lush musical tapestry of Victorian elegance and Gothic nightmares-a dark treasure that truly captures the essence of Poe's tormented soul. The instrumental tracks cover all of Poe's most famous tales and poems, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and of course, "The Raven." The CD is accompanied by a 12-page booklet filled with Joseph Vargo's lavish artwork depicting Poe's classic horror tales, and even offers fans a hidden "gold bug" riddle. For a Victorian Halloween or Masquerade ball.
Rezension
Nox Arcana is intelligent horror. Their versatility and willingness to explore all realms of horror and the dark side is what will keep Nox Arcana enduring for some time to come. --Fangoria
Edgar Allan Poe himself would have loved this musical tribute to his works, a tribute that is every bit as timeless as his writings! Highly Recommended! --Gothic Beauty
Shadow of the Raven continues in Nox Arcana's vein of greatness... they delve so deeply into what it truly must have been like to be Poe, it makes you wonder if Vargo and Piotrowski aren't actually vampires that at one time shared an evening with the man, cavorting on the rundown streets of Baltimore. --Horror-Punks.com
Produktinformation
- Produktabmessungen : 14.2 x 12.5 x 0.99 cm; 85.05 Gramm
- Hersteller : Monolith Graphics
- Modellnummer : UPC-634479597138
- Erscheinungsdatum : 2007
- Label : Monolith Graphics
- ASIN : B000UWUVRU
- Herkunftsland : Deutschland
- Anzahl Disks : 1
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 399,976 in Musik-CDs & Vinyl (Siehe Top 100 in Musik-CDs & Vinyl)
- Nr. 552 in Gothic Rock
- Nr. 175,678 in Pop (Musik-CDs & Vinyl)
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Please note that this review does not apply specifically to just this album. I am posting this on all the NA albums. I first bought "Transylvania." Upon receiving it, and listening to it one time, I immediately bought every single NA album. They are all obviously of the same dark genre, and they are all superb. There may be a few that stand out as my favorites, but all of them are 10/10. Why did Amazon recommend NA to me? I'm not sure if it related to my purchase history of ambient music, or horror films, or both combined. I had invested quite a bit of time and money pursuing both interests, and it was insightful for the Amazon program to realize that NA was right up my alley.
In fact, the Amazon recommendation sated an ongoing and expensive frustration. The ambient music I'd been spending a fortune on was not satisfying. The fascination with ambient music began with Angelo Badalamenti's soundtrack music for "Twin Peaks" in the early 90s. That album captivated me for a couple of years. I must have given 25 copies as gifts, and everyone had a resounding response. So, I tried to expand on that attraction, and had limited success. Too much ambient music relies on minimalism. Brian Eno's material is haunting, but it doesn't always captivate me. My mind will wander. A lot of ambient merges into techno or electronic, which actually tended to ambient me into a full-blown migraine! And so, I had a box with about 75 ambient CDs, and maybe five of them really merited repeated playing.
What I was looking for was music that captures me and whisks me away into an alternative state of mind. As someone who has job with a lot of responsibility, and as a father, I can't drop LSD on my Tuesday nights. In fact, I have to keep it down to two drinks or less if I want to be clear-headed the next morning. And, I don't have the time for yoga or meditation. Music has always seemed to be the best route for efficient escapism. While my traditional musical affinity has always been of a hard rock orientation, as I "matured" I realized that in addition to Led Zeppelin and AC/DC there were other more mellow artists who did add richness and meaning to my life: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, for example, brought back great childhood memories, and Sinatra and Dino added some cocktail hour pizzazz, and many others enhanced specific occasions or moods.
But there was something in the sphere of ambient music that I knew could be expanded upon. I hadn't realized it initially, but I realize now the musical "high" I was looking for was frequently delivered in the soundtracks of horror movies. The weird, pulsating, haunting music that we experience in Carrie, Carnival of Souls, The Exorcist, Burnt Offerings, The Shining, and so many others is exciting and hints at alternative "non-Euclidean" perspectives. So, I started buying soundtracks for horror films. I found some great music this direction, but it was spotty. Some songs sounded simply like....generic soundtrack music. There was no particular continuity. My attention waxed and waned.
Enter Nox Arcana. (And, I should mention, I have had a similar positive experience with Midnight Syndicate, a group with a similar orientation.) NA, I later learned, was created by a fellow named Joseph Vargo, who is also a talented painter (making me wonder if he made some deal with the devil; there's just too much talent in this one person to comport to the normal parameters of evolution). Amazon, and many of the reviewers described NA music as "Halloween music." That seemed like a fairly narrow niche to me, but as I mentioned I went ahead and gambled on "Transylvania."
Wow. On that album and on all the others, here's what I've found:
First, you get extremely beautiful music. The music is simply beautiful, there's nothing jarring, abrasive, or ugly to detract. If someone were to walk into your home for a few moments as you were listening to this, they'd probably just presume your were listening to some Baroque-era classical-type music. The level of sophistication is mesmerizing, and the array of elements are primal and organic: whispers, gongs, piano, organ, harpsichord, acoustic guitars, bells, music boxes,laughter, violin--all orchestrated fabulously.
Second, this music is haunting. By "haunting," I mean it really gets under your current subjective mood and yanks you into its own mystical realm. You are transported. I recently read the 1960's classic "The Natural Mind" by Dr. Andrew Weil wherein he discusses various alternatives to drug usage to satisfy the deeply entrenched human desire to achieve altered states of consciousness. I'm sure that if NA had been around at the time he wrote that book, he would have given NA a warm recommendation. This music transports the listener. Every time I play an NA album I find myself taken from the suburbs of Los Angeles and deposited to some cold, dark castle or some windy, isolated hill, or any of a hundred other barren places. That "barrenness" somehow transforms my mood. It takes me out of my own myopic, stressed, subjectivity and reminds me that we live in a vast, cold, mystical cosmos, one which is beautiful but full of unknowns and unknowables. I may not immediately see "the big picture," but I am reminded that there is indeed a big picture to be seen, or at least sought. This is "ambient music" of the highest order. Indeed, Wikipedia tells me that NA creates "Dark Ambient" music, and I find that this is probably the best description out there. I would add the adjective "rich," because this is not minimalist ambient music, it is filled with a thousand elements and forces. It is indeed: "Rich, Dark Ambient."
Third: This music is serious. Some naysayers may find the narratives which precede some of the songs to render this music down onto a less-serious plane. Honestly, at first I didn't appreciate the whispery narratives (ex: "You are entering the dark and empty manor..."). However, let's remember that folklore and storytelling are important parts of our human cultural odyssey. And the introductions here are typically very short. After a few listens, I've found that they actually set the stage very nicely and add some nice context. They ultimately add to the "eldritch" (a Lovecraft word for you) moodiness. And the powerful NA melodies immediately sweep away any residuum of campiness should you perceive it in that light. I assure you, I am not into campy music at all, and NA is not campy. "Profound" is the main word that comes to my mind after exploring their entire oeuvre.
Recent NA albums have been, amazingly, as good as the earliest albums. There must be close to a dozen titles at this point. Can Nox Arcana continue to deliver the same high quality music in the years to come? In my mind, that is the major question. This is a wonderful universe Joseph Vargo, et al., has created, but it is almost certainly a finite universe. I hope they will know when it is time to give it up. I'd hate to see even a single watered-down album be released.
This is almost religious-level music here, and I hope it will stay ultra- orthodox until the end.
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