MUSK OX

"Inheritance (Part 1 ? Premonition)" opens the ball with a hymn to music and nature: we feel the wind in the trees, the droplets of dew falling, the leaves attacked by this water which bend before the weight, the fog of the moment with its training; a dramatic aspect of what chamber music can give: melody, dark atmosphere, intimate moment, I read that YES's 'Relayer' had been chosen as a sketch. "Inheritance (Part 2 ? Hindsight)" for the rest on an even darker composition, a range of notes with a superb crescendo at the start; the instruments complement each other admirably and give an intensity heavy with emotions, a reminder of what AGALLOCH did so well, of the excesses of TENHI also with the association of a note and an emotion; intimate dark rock in the tradition of a TANGERINE DREAM title from his early years. At 10 minutes, we would like the electric explosion, but the temporary return to calm makes this idea disappear before the acoustic explosion arrives a few minutes later, giving rise to a dramatic intensity.

"Memoriam" on a memorial tune which reminds me at certain moments of the dramatic side of 'Requiem For a Dream', a song performed in a video clip in the middle of the woods, everything is said; moment recalling the start of this global pandemic with latency on our fate, uncertainty and honor to the deceased, a simple piece full of emotion, of innocence; slow, intimate, melancholic ballad where the feedback takes me back for a time to the notes of Philip GLASS. "Ritual" for a piece with breaks, from a dramatic start to moments where the dull cheerfulness returns to the spleen of hope, where the instruments seem to arise separately and each give a meaning to life before leaving together on a heavy, threatening and dreamlike air. "Weightless" for the final title which here opens onto a musical maelstrom with three instruments, where how the dramatic intensity of complex notes can lead to an intense and captivating composition, where time seems to have frozen for a few moments.

MUSK OX delivers stripped-down, atmospheric black metal; a minimalist soundtrack to listen to in the middle of the woods, on the edge of metal and classical..