[security] by Brasil & The Gallowbrothers Band

 

Some of the great albums just slide past your hearing, in an unassuming manner and deserve more attention than they actually not receive. That is correct, they don't receive it although they should have.

It is the case of this humbly released album by Brasil & The Gallowbrothers Band who are coming back very quietly.

Put aside their past which was full of albums that were just stunningly and eerily beautiful, it's good to start anew. Lace and tissue of this new album is elaborate sound preparation which are their trademark but put into a context of a song with a theme, a vocal, a sparse melody or bits of it. I heard that pattern in Eyeless in Gaza and David Sylvian's work but I would be unjust to put them into this category as there are probably more than dozen of projects who deservingly or undeservingly can be somewhat related to the structure of Brasil does here.

What is more important is the fact that they blend so much things together like the coldness of experiment and psychodelia with mutations and oscillations of ethnic music but even more to that - it's a poetry of sound that has unique qualities of a soundtrack not necessarily being one.

The grim and bitter swirl of the subtlety of their sound is somewhat uncanny when you think of how deep the experiment goes, and it goes, naturally, without forcing it.

Try to listen to this album for the sound design and then try again for something elusive, unworldly - it will definitely tell you the story of life's misery but for the sake of healing, not depressing. It actually works...

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