TRENCH OF LONELINESS

Born Again Iterum Nata, a 2017 psychedelic dark-folk-rock project by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jesse Heikkinen who played in Hexvessel. His 4th album gives a pagan view of the esoteric world we live in; dark, melodic and emphatic; a bit of Tenhi, King Crimson, Strawbs, Kristoffer Gildenlöw for an intimate meditative journey.

'My Name Is Sorrow' announces the musical color; dark, majestic, an air of Ghost at the start, of the Bal des Laze; an intimate melody with acoustic guitar and synth in the distance reminiscent of Solefald or Solstafir. 'One with the Sun' more folkloric with a warm, hypnotic keyboard. 'Forgotten Friends' in facsimile, dark, catchy; enlightened darkness and desperate solo. 'Bones in the Forest' reminds me of a King Crimson title through the vintage organ; delicate air of acoustic guitar, folk that spreads a feeling of morbid loneliness. 'The Feather' brings this more progressive with an instrumental worthy of a soundtrack like Final Fantasy or Silent Hill, icy, dreamlike; Crystalline piano then majestic synth with a post-rock barrier and a lugubrious guitar solo.

'The Mountain' pop rock à la Sniff'n'The Tears and the gothic punky-rock of the New Model Army; the tribal drums and the distant voice on a proven folk tune and the guitar solo. 'Losing Connection' more symphonic, end-of-the- world spatial dark; the hit of the album; Ayreon for the vibrant synth and religiously flowing text. 'I Only Sing with the Dead' nursery rhyme à la Leonard Cohen it is said; good for singing with death who else? Black country guitar sound and eerie tune with that vivacious synth; solo by an alien zombie. 'I'd Rather Be a Fool Than a King' on a Scandinavian bar rhyme; about a tired Pogues reminiscing about his past life. 'Comedy of Humanity' sends me back to The Phantom of the Paradise with invigorating choruses; solemn air that denotes the album, a message to keep hope?

Iterum Nata has concocted an album mixing folk nostalgia of yesteryear and its post rock cinematic of today, a delicious paradigm filled with monotony and fleeting enlightenment; to heal from today's society, nothing better than to confront the harsh, dark and inventive musical reality, esoteric or not.