CRIES AND WHISPERS

Ever looking to the past while helping to shape the future, RICCARDO PRENCIPE and his methodically curated guests have here bifurcated a project into a post metal ("Cries") and an ethofolk section ("Whispers"). To employ the dialect us fans have followed since 2007, the first part has more of an edge than we are used to, with post rock tectonics throughout, while the second is like the old CORDE OBLIQUE we nostalgize.

On "The Moon is a Dry Bone", the schism often fractured individual tracks, sometime to their benefit, but here, while a certain moodiness warms us up, particularly on "The NIghtingale and the Rose" and "A Step to Lose the Balance", we get to revel more in the presentations that can be and often are unpredictable in new and exhilarating ways, as in "Leaver", "John Ruskin", "Bruegel's Dance", "Souvenirs d'un autre Monde", and the shatteringly ethereal "Selfish Giant". Much thanks as always to Rita Saviano who carries the vocal duties, thought at the expense of my continued lament that male voice is only permitted to be little spoon during harmony vocals.

While not every incursion here meets with ultimate success, it's rarely for want of effort and inspiration, thanks in part to the classic 1972 Ingmar Bergman film of the same name, and lurches its themes forward to the present day and beyond in a modulated voice.

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