{"id":1088,"date":"2017-09-13T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T11:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perkele.it\/uncategorized\/black-willows-samsara\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:02:23","slug":"black-willows-samsara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perkele.it\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"BLACK WILLOWS &#8211;  Samsara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Samsara&#8221; \u00e8 il secondo lavoro dei <b>Black Willows<\/b>, formazione svizzera di ottimo gusto e tempismo. Quasi tre anni sono durate ricerca dei fondi e realizzazione delle 6 tracce \u2013 lunghe, ossessive e dal respiro pesante sulla giugulare \u2013 di questo disco ben fatto e pi\u00f9 che discreto, che svetta in alto nella mia personale classifica del 2016 musicale.<br \/>\nParlandoci chiaro, la scena &#8220;stoner-psych&#8221; bla bla bla, \u00e8 sempre pi\u00f9 satura e non se ne pu\u00f2 pi\u00f9. Diventa difficile discernere un buon disco da un ammiccamento pubblicitario, da una trovata sorniona \u00e0 la &#8220;female fronted band&#8221; e via discorrendo.<br \/>\nHo ricevuto anche questa volta il disco per posta. All&#8217;antica. Un disco leggero, dalla grafica minimale. Dai contenuti precisi e insieme affabulatori. Le influenze sono quelle che sono: solo influenze. Il gusto traspare tra le note di ogni pezzo, in una spirale di fumo che passa dai Tool di fine anni &#8217;90 all&#8217;amore per l&#8217;Oriente, finendo nel tipico oscuro  lato dell&#8217;Europa (Electric Wizard, Cathedral, a tratti My Dying Bride), sebbene l&#8217;album sia stato registrato e masterizzato negli Stati Uniti (da Erik Wofford ai Cacophony Recorders di Austin, in Texas).<br \/>\n&#8220;Morning Star&#8221; occupa lo spazio mentale e metaforico in un mantra nero che dura anche formalmente la met\u00e0 del lavoro. &#8220;Mountain&#8221; alza il livello creativo con un riff potente. Adorabilmente melanconico \u00e8 il leitmotiv che trafigge &#8220;Samsara&#8221;, dove la poetica del male si accosta al decadentismo minimale della modernit\u00e0.<br \/>\nUn passo indietro \u2013 cronologicamente parlando \u2013 che spiega la qualit\u00e0 della musica stessa, lontana quanto basta dalla nuova ondata face psichedelica degli ultimi anni. Solve et coagula.<\/p>\n<p>In fede,<br \/>\nS.H. Palmer<\/p>\n<p><i>English Version<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I remember \u2013 as if it were yesterday \u2013 that moment I&#8217;ve found the letter from Aleister Crowley in my mailbox. At the time I lived (in) Berlin. It was a bit weird, but an absolutely awesome feeling run through my spine. The same feeling I&#8217;ve felt under the palms of the hands, when (this time in Cologne) I&#8217;ve found my copy of &#8220;Samsara&#8221; at the bottom of my dark green metal box. I actually appreciated a lot kind of kind people. And <b>Black Willows<\/b> are both talented musicians, gentle raw souls (as it can be seen and heard) and kind spokespersons.<br \/>\n&#8220;Samsara&#8221; is the sophomore I was waiting for, this year. I read through the lines of a couple of social networks, the guys were trying to fund themselves since the debut of &#8220;Haze&#8221; (their first work, I reviewed for Perkele three years ago). Six tracks. Long tracks, as the concept itself demands. And the old-fashioned \u2013 in a  positive way \u2013 taste of Black Willows strikes again. This work reminds me of a strange &#8220;crossroad&#8221; company, I think.<br \/>\nThe devil whispers \u2013 Triton somehow \u2013 the obsessive instrumental parts. Delayed, slow and heavy megaphone reverberates in a cloudy bowl of gloomy (although shining) smoke. Something between &#8220;Aenema&#8221; \u2013 the 1996 masterpiece of Tool, and the whole Electric Wizard taste crawls and climbs from the depth with a little help of Lee Dorrian and Aaron Stainthorpe. Even a soft Wave, a thin line between a fine European taste of distortions and an obscure mantra culture of bold hallucinations, which blows indeed from the extreme east.<br \/>\nBest moments can be found in &#8220;Mountain&#8221; (officially the best riff of the album), &#8220;Jewel in the Lotus&#8221; (15 very intense and summarizing minutes) and &#8220;Sin&#8221; (8 minutes long precious little gem), even if the Devil came out and played his tricks during the &#8220;Morning Star&#8221; minstrel flavoured mantra. Dark clarity and spontaneous refined decay, are the keys of this black geometrical outcome.<br \/>\nAs above, so below.<\/p>\n<p>Faithfully yours,<br \/>\nS.H. 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