Scritto da Ivan "Martin" Guidone Lunedì 24 Agosto 2009 12:57 Letto : 2207 volte
ENGLISH VERSION
A lot of time has gone since the Project Pitchfork had begun their gradual and deserved rise to success, evident result of their innate talent that has conferred them an important role in the dark-wave scene of the Nineties. And still today, after almost twenty years from their record debut, it’s a pleasure to realize that the historical teutonic band has still got their traditional gothic charm, making this concept-album titled “Dream, Tiresias!”, where the main subject is the oneiric dimension.
But nevermind the chats and let’s start with the review! Gloomy atmospheres, digital noises, suggestive samples and implacable martial rhythms that march like giant hammers, are the elements which characterize this obscure gem of dark-wave, where the synthesizers weave gothic atmospheres which amalgamate themselves with the charismatic Peter Spilles’ voice that catalyzes our attention in every damned track of this amazing record.
Made of thirteen tracks, that run nicely like flying electric dreams, “Dream, Tiresias!” opens the dances with “If I Could”, first impeccable episode of this excitant oneiric journey. The next track “Nasty Habit” catches us immediately with its frenetic electro-dance formula in industrial sauce, where it’s pretty clear that we can’t resist anymore to join to these macabre digital dances. In the song “The Tide”, third “dream” of this album, the oneiric sceneries, generated by the wise work of the synthesizers, marry the factory rhythms, bringing us back to the legendary Eighties, mythical age where the “machineries” worked incessantly to give us dreams and synthetic emotions.
With martial walk, “Promises”, involves us in its monolithic obsessive rhythms, while the successive “An End” gives an unexpected angelical chorus that rises up our souls, tho our guts are still blocked in the complicated tangle of its rhythmical mechanisms. Suggestive gregorian chants characterize the sixth dream, “Your God”, that goes on with the same maniacal precision of a clock.
«Here’s the pain that you can feel!», so Spilles cries out in the song “Feel”, the suggestive next track that rises slowly until it touches apocalyptical peaks, in fact the song has been selected by the german band as single that precedes “Dream, Tiresias!”. The eighth oneiric episode, “Full Of Life”, has the right title for a song like where the naked energy of rhythm spreads all its incontenible power, while the keyboards hint simple and suggestive notes that evoke dimensions between dream and reality, and that curiously recall the unforgettable soundtrack of “Suspiria” (a Dario Argento’s horror movie) signed by the legendary italian band Goblin.
Exasperating rhythmically the musical formula proposed in the previous songs, “Darkness” conquers the title of the most powerful track of the whole album, but the dream can’t last forever and here is the solemn and mysterious atmosphere of “Passion”, latest and tenth track of this wonderful CD, followed by the triptych of “Feel!” remixes (firmed by prestigious names) that has ungrateful task to end these frenetic oneiric dances.
Before saying goodbye to Morpheus and coming back to the hard reality, I have to underline that even if you could miss hits such as “I Live Your Dream”, “Timekiller” and “Steelrose”, the Project Pitchfork shows clearly to its detractors to be in good shape with this elegant and vibrant album that will be loved even by who isn’t used to listen to these obscure industrial scrap-irons.
Peter Spilles: Compositore, sintetizzatori e voce
Dirk Scheuber: Sintetizzatori
Jürgen Jansen: Sintetizzatori
Guests:
Achim Färber: Batteria
Carsten Klatte: Chitarra
Anno: 2009
Label: Trisol Records
Genere: Dark Wave/Elettronica
Tracklist:
01. If I Could
02. Nasty Habit
03. The Tide
04. Promises
05. An End
06. Your God
07. Feel
08. Full Of Life
09. Darkness
10. Passion
11. Feel! [:SITD:] Remix
12. Feel! Remixed by NOISUF-X
13. Feel! DIE KRUPPS Remix