For this release, the German transcendental-drone-duo Troum teams up with the legendary British singer / songwriter and Eyeless in Gaza member Martyn Bates. More than 2 years in the making, Martyn Bates has sung & played (mouth organ & melodica) over basic material Troum provided consisting of harmonic minimal loops & basic song structures derived from accordeon, e-bass & guitar, percussion), who were then also responsible for the final subsequent additions mastering (adding more guitar-work, voices & balalaika). Martyn Bates has chosen to sing four poems of the famous Irish poet W.B. Yeats, and he did this with a most impressive sensitivity for Troum´s very sublime & rather hidden harmonic structures. There are also two instrumentals in a more experimental style on this disc, one being a dark drone reprise of the main piece Mad as the Mist and Snow #2. Martyns voice is surely not something for everyone its of an extreme emotional & yearnful quality that might be not easy to stand a yearning which is like a deep cry out to the horizon, to something that is unreachable per se, feeling a passion that tears you apart inside. This is pure emotional poetry transformed into yearnful audible spherics ! 6 tracks, 39 minutes. CD in 6-panel digipak.
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