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In Absentia Christi

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This is one of those albums that, despite the album's title, make you wonder if there is a God after all.. Created over a 5 year periode, this CD is the love-child of perfectionist Roberto Mammarella (Who also runs the label Avantgarde Music), and it seems as if he intended to create the perfect gothic album. ..And I think he suceeded to! The blending of dark-wave and indo-european/eastern folk influences with the more traditional gothic sound works optimal, and the guest-vocals of Ataraxia's Franciesca Nicoli on a couple of tracks is just icing on the cake. The track "On perspective of spiritual catharsis" is one of my favorite tracks of ANY music!! This is a MUST have! (...and the David Serni cover-artwork fits the music perfectly... Awesome...)

I know that this wonderful band delayed five years to launch this album, however was compensatory. The quality of this material is surpreedente. The style of the band is gothic/atmospheric. In some passes of the CD, we perceive the influence of the Dead Can Dance. For who it does not know, the songestress of the band, Francesca Nicoli, is the same songstress of the band " Ataraxia ". The vocal masculine is for account of the Andrea Zanetti, where the gothic style predominates. All the CD is excellent, the instrumental part is sufficiently melancholic, but gorgeous. The bands prettiest of the CD are, instrumental:"Battesimo: Nero Opaco " (introduction), " Consuming Jerusalem ", "Fade to Grey ", " On perspective of Spiritual Catharsis " (Title) and " Nephtali ". Who to want to acquire this CD, with certainty will not go to repent itself, valley to confer.

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