Mistelteinn
豆瓣
简介
auralpressure (01.06.2005)
This alpine gem of a mini-album from Nebelung though a new addition to Eis & Licht label is a debut mature and gifted that belies their lack of disco-graphical history. Mistelteinn's viridescent digipak nurtures forested apport within and without in a limited edition of 600 copies with booklet.
Natural sounds for a natural world, the sawing breath of cello draws life into wood and string, geometry and its harmony, inflecting profound reflection, the music of Nebelung immediately strikes the listener in luscious tones that capture the very vibrations of the air as it is compressed by the medley of instrumentation. Crystallised acoustic guitar pluck despondent arpeggio within fallow glen where flute educe forgotten folk arrangements and weeping cello and mourning vocals throat figurative loam for the fluorescent ornamentation.
The duo of Stefan Otto and Thomas List perform an unsoiled traditional album of well-crafted folk compositions that would find good company beside Forseti, Darkwood, and the acoustic side of Ulver. Clocking in at just less than thirty minutes for six tracks, Nebelung show a promising potential despite its Germanic neofolk similarities.
NYR
这支乐队的成员实际上只有两个,Stefan Otto负责了大部分曲目的创作及乐器的编配,Thomas List则负责吉他。早在1997年,这两个同样喜欢文学和音乐的年轻人就彼此认识,很快他们就组建了第一支乐队,不过竟然是个布鲁斯乐团;在随后的数年内,他们又尝试过从金属到工业噪音等许多种不同的音乐风格,Nebelung这支乐队是他们音乐灵感上的一次反朴归真,效果却相当的好。
Nebelung 这个词在古代德语里的意思是“十一月”,德国人认为这是一年中最悲伤的月份,因为她是秋天的最深处,也是严冬之神将要君临天下前遣来的信使。乐队认为这个名字可以很好的表达他们伤感的曲风——虽然乐队成员来自于德国第一大工业区鲁尔区,但是这张专辑展现出来的音乐气象和大工业生产的硝烟相去遥远。
“大自然和我们对它的敬意是我们创作的灵感,”乐队成员解释道,“远离城市的嘈杂而漫步于森林之中有时会让你感到,某种类似于精神顿悟的东西。我们想通过我们的曲子,歌词和整个歌曲的结构来唤起这种感觉。”
正是为了表达这种自然的主题,乐队在专辑中没有使用任何的电声设备,6首歌全部由原声乐器演奏,长笛、木吉他、大提琴这些简单的配器让音乐呈现出一种质朴和纯粹,Otto的嗓音也是非常平实的男声,听他娓娓道来,仿佛时光回转到了Ulver和Empyrium的那个年代,不禁恍惚。然而这样似曾相识的音乐,今天却不能让我重温当年的那种感动。实非歌者之过,只是我们走的匆忙。
此外,专辑中的歌词皆是选自尼采,波德莱尔和霍夫曼斯塔尔的诗词,给专辑平添了一分新浪漫主义的色彩。
tracks
01. Intro
02. Heimsuchung
03. Abel und Kain
04. Regen in der Dämmerung
05. Mistelteinn
06. Heimatlos