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Rising Shadows – ‘Falling Deep Within’ CD (Twilight Records) |
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Written by Simon Collins
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Falling Deep Within is the debut album of Swedish neo-classical duo Rising Shadows. All music is composed and performed by Fredrik Klingwall, who contributed a track under his own name to the 2006 Cold Spring Records sampler Swarm, and vocals are courtesy of the rather babelicious Linda-li Wahlin. 16 short tracks occupy 33 minutes of playing time. After the dramatic gothic church organ and bass drum intro of ‘Vocalise’, ‘Embraced By The Shadows’ transports the listener to an ethereal realm of fairy enchantment, with lilting harp, orchestral strings, clarinet and chiming percussion providing the backdrop to Linda-li’s exquisite singing, which is very much in the tradition of such chanteuses as Kate Bush, Loreena McKennitt and Dead Can Dance’s Lisa Gerrard – abstract, often wordless chanting, conjuring a mood through sound rather than sense. Rising Shadows’ compositions are slight and fragmentary, brief glimpses into a magical otherworld, which dissolves into mist as you try to grasp or comprehend it. Musically, comparisons can be made to Dead Can Dance or Danny Elfman’s scores for Tim Burton films such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. The CD is released by Argentinian label Twilight Records, home to such well-known neo-classical and neo-folk acts as Camerata Mediolanense, Ataraxia, The Soil Bleeds Black, Cawatana and Kirlian Camera, so Rising Shadows find themselves in good company, on a label which should be sympathetic to their aesthetic approach. Falling Deep Within comes in a tasteful matt digipack with minimal information. Recommended for mystics, dreamers, hopeless romantics and changelings. www.risingshadows.net www.myspace.com/risingshadows www.twilight-records.com.ar
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