MEMENTO VIVERE

"Non Sum - Non Curo" and the reverberant electro intro, caught up in a syncopated drum beat with the sounds of DEPECHE MODE in... dark wave mode. The air is languorous, rising, Paul modulating his exits; the break, first of the name with noises smashed against each other, forming an end-of-the-world atmosphere. The guitar saturates, the drums turn into a machine gun, the vocal on a delightful hardos groove. The ambient variation, latent with this monolithic, hypnotic keyboard, on SCHULZE; the evidence brings back to a captivating guitar solo and the voice marks the reminiscences of a dark wave, gothic ULTRAVOX, rising to the surface, memory of LACRIMOSA. Japanese passage which soothes before the pompous grandiloquent rise, goosebumps proven even beyond the 5 listens, I'm on more! The final torture that hums in the ears, the ecstasy. "Ad Infinitum" follows, like another drawer stacked with Nerissa as instigator. The sound on a Jeff BUCKLEY for the dark, melancholic side, a decadent TEARS FOR FEARS who would have chosen dark wave, these are only words to try to explain this unique, languorous sound that takes to the head, to the guts; you risk getting stuck forever. The sound that makes you stop thinking and remain silent; the break that launches the haunting spleen guitar, developing primary sounds, the wild crescendo making you navigate in this between worlds to infinity, a parallel dimension where time has stopped; a little wind and...

"It Walks Among Us" follows and erases the atmosphere created by developing a spacey, metallic doom metal air. The piece continues with a solemn air where the violin amplifies a time, before letting the violent orchestration fly apart in your ears. The easy, predictable but pressure-retaining finale; monolithic, pompous if that can help you grasp their unique universe based on Paul's guitar, Nerissa's harp and Andreas' various instrumentations. On the edge of orgiastic music. "Assimilation" comes with a strong intro to put the pressure on, listen to this harp. Paul runs and sings catchy with a different chorus; the piano electronics are there to support him as well as Wolfgang's striking drums. The fluid guitar solo that stands out, taking you by surprise, accentuating the notion of evening beauty, melancholic like the sensitive, delicate violin, smelling of the End. The finale will be different with the Dantesque orchestration, hard, heavy; a controlled fury of notes to mark and remind us that we are just dust, blessed but dust.

HAVEN OF ECHOES have released an astonishing album, pushing music to inconceivable stylistic limits; originally on profilprog.