What I Want from You Is Sweet

Orion Rigel Dommisse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Language of Stone
• ASIN: B000UCH63M
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,047 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

On the surface Orion Rigel Dommisse’s song world is marked by death, desolation and personal disaster. That the events populate a fairy-tale-like terrain is no small point. The transmutation of terror and dread into a manageable folkloric currency makes complete sense given the fantastic elements sewn within Orion’s singular visions. As with the best fantasy tales, Orion’s songs thread multiple meanings, some obvious, others occluded, through a linear narrative of disarming depth. All the while the tone is charged, with menace and beauty. This is classical music set to Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, folk music from some lost Balkan province where moonlight feeds all need for Vitamin D. Orion’s text is a dark, rich blood that oozes through organs, infusing them with all manner of unearthy metastices; mutations which allow them to evolve through pain, survive the corruptions of this world and deliver upon it an inverse of the negativity it so often yields. Orion feels the world like few others can. Our reward for that is What I Want From You Is Sweet.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptionally dark, folk oriented album, May 20, 2008

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Zombiehor.de "http://zombiehor.de" (Detroit, Mi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What I Want from You Is Sweet (Audio CD)

Orion Rigel Dommisse's album, "What I Want From You Is Sweet", is a perfect example of an album that is so great, it makes it difficult for me to review it. I want to lavish praise on it for being highly original, emotive and wonderfully peculiar, but end up wanting to write, "It's awesome, just listen to it".

Of course, it isn't necessarily for everyone, so I'll describe it the best I can. It is a collection of depressing folk oriented songs. Dommisse's vocal work remind me a bit of Melora Creager from Rasputina, but much more soft and not quite as devilish. The lyrics are extremely crafty, largely being songs about death and tragedy. This is seriously dark music, with sort of a girly, powdery kiss that makes it feel almost like a set of demented nursery rhymes. Or even more accurately, it is music that would work well for narrating very dark fairy tales or folk legends. It is definitely music for deep in the forests.

I would recommend checking out this album if you enjoy the idea of a very mellow, folk oriented Rasputina, or like anything by Marissa Nadler. It is hard to draw comparison's to Dommisse since her music is so unique.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How To Make A Classic, Vol. 1, May 30, 2009

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Cabir Marc Davis (Amazon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What I Want from You Is Sweet (Audio CD)

Orion Rigel Dommisse have created an album of such beauty, such transcendent power, that its difficult to imagine anyone or anyband doing anything in the same vein even remotely comparable. This is very, very 'different' music - tunes that seem lifted out of some 14th century Balkan highlands songbook, and at other times its almost dark and Romanian - Transylvanian, even. The lead singer is a waif-voiced woman who has no trouble making even the most vampirical orchestrations sound sweet and pastoral.

This is all part of the magic that is Orion Rigel Dommisse's genius. This is certainly music that is not for everyone. In a perfect world, this would have garnered a cult audience comparable to Joanna Newsoms' "Ys" or even Bon Ivers's "For Emma Forever Ago", but the way it stands, this is pretty obscure. No one I have spoken to or interacted with has even heard of this album, and my adopted brother in the US was the first one to introduce me to this wondrous set of tunes.

However, if youre expecting happiness and joy in an album, there is almost none. Every track is about death, sadness, loneliness and disruption of mental stability (this isn't a Disney production, is what I'm sayin'). Consider the song titles themselves - "Fake Your Death", "A Faceless Death", and the stunning album closer - "Drink Yourself to Death" (which is exactly what you think it is). The best tracks come toward the end of the album, and between #3-#5 the album does sound a bit samey - but even these songs sound solid.

The instrumental passages that precede a vocal are sometimes the best. Case in point - the beautiful "Capricorn", which contains dark subject matter and opens with a chilling violin solo, before the lead songstress' voice happily interjects. The juxtaposition of a scary backing track with a cheerful lead vocal is a very disorienting experience. For many reasons, this track is a standout, as the instrumentation between verses sound as if from a lost 1920s Estonian folk recording - in the best way possible.

Through the enthralling ten tracks here, a thread of misery and pain unfolds, and even though this album is pleasant enough to sit through in totality, you might come of it feeling mildly depressed. But what a exemplary musical experience this is! I haven't heard such string sections since forever, and the lyricism is stellar. Granted, this music will not appeal to a broad section of people - even people within the independent music community have trouble finding it or listening to it, but if you like obscure genres of music with a vintage flair, and almost goth-like, this is the album for you. Its not like anything you've ever heard before.

Five Stars. Finally a CD that breaks new ground.

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting and perfect, January 24, 2012

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the apple bleeds "Sandra" (Earth) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: What I Want from You Is Sweet (Audio CD)

I am a loss for words to describe this album, so I'll just say that it's morbid and beautiful. The arrangements are elegant and visceral. This is one of my favorite finds.