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May 07, 2005
ALBUM REVIEW: Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses - Perils
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Ever imagine yourself working deep within a secret, subterranean chamber preparing a ritual to raise to spirit of a long-dead sorceror to learn his alchemical secrets? Or maybe chanting incantations over a bonfire in the middle of a dark forest, attempting to awaken long dormant forces of nature to take rise up and assert their presence in the world? If so, this album would be an appropriate soundtrack to either of those visions. The playful but dramatically forceful tunes of pagan magick brought forth via a medley of harmoniums, autoharps, violins, violas, pianos, organs and glockenspiels, played by the Brits in Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses who surely prefer "Old Europe" over the new, brings to mind an occult world that Aleister Crowley would thrive in. Listen for the Eastern European gypsy rhythms mixed into the sounds of Olde English wizardry.
Posted by andrewanissi at May 7, 2005 04:32 PM