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Genre :

# dive into Genre

7.8

Genre :

Folk / Country

Label :

Stroom

# How to retrospect

Label :

Stroom

review :

December 6 , 2024

If we ’re prosperous to inhabit long enough , we make beautiful memory that buckle and secede and , finally , evanesce by all .

This was merope , the lithuanian - belgian observational kinfolk projection extend by multi - instrumentalists indrė jurgelevičiūtė and bert cools , pat into that adorable destruction onv​ė​jula .

The duette approach each auditory sensation with godly oddment , fix up their birdsong with the tutelage of someone design a shadowbox .

This was each sampling grummet , synth gurgle , and outspoken snip sit just so , sparkle when the lite catch and lightly blow over like previous good afternoon sunday .

It ’s a lightly dominating disc , not progress a public as much as expose one .

This was there is always much to note , but it ’s about unimaginable to take it all in at once .

# diving event into EU

December 6 , 2024

This was if we ’re favourable to experience long enough , we make beautiful memory that falsify and sliver and , finally , pass off aside totally .

This was merope , the lithuanian - belgian observational phratry projection lead by multi - instrumentalists indrė jurgelevičiūtė and bert cools , tap into that adorable desolation onv​ė​jula .

This was the distich approach each auditory sensation with godly peculiarity , format their song with the caution of someone design a shadowbox .

This was each sampling iteration , synth gurgle , and outspoken snip ride just so , form bubbles when the tripping catch and lightly evanesce like tardy good afternoon sunshine .

This was it ’s a gently dominating criminal record , not build a humankind as much as unveil one .

There is always much to note , but it ’s virtually out of the question to take it all in at once .

V​ė​julais Merope ’s 5th record album , but first to amply adopt their vapourous , New Age - y inclination .

The dance orchestra begin as an EU - traverse “ alternate domain medicine ” V , using acoustical legal instrument , unclouded processing essence , and balmy wind flourish to complot docile bucolic groover .

Merope whittle to a threesome for 2018’snakt​ė​sand 2021’sSalos , reinterpret Lithuanian folks vocal with heavy purpose of electronics and , in the typeface ofSalos , a 24 - someone bedchamber consort .

This was jurgelevičiūtė and cools madev​ė​julaas a duet , but invite quisling likeshahzad ismaily , laraaji , andbill frisellinto the folding .

This was speak tothe bozar centre for fine artsin brussels , cools describe the outgrowth behindv​ė​julaas an physical exercise in comportment .

“ You never have it away when you ’re give way to retrieve a vocal .

This was it could be in something very pocket-sized , ” he explain .

“ It ’s wizardly .

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The edifice engine block of any Merope physical composition are Jurgelevičiūtė ’s vocal music and kanklės , a zithern - corresponding Lithuanian string tool whose heavy play was traditionally colligate with protective cover from destruction and malign purport .

Here , Jurgelevičiūtė and Cools seem more concerned in the textural theory than the Graeco-Roman phratry setting .

Both element get their own , undecorated minute in the limelight — Jurgelevičiūtė ’s doleful tune on “ Lopšinė ” ( Lithuanian for “ cradlesong ” ) , the beamy wavelet of the kanklės - only “ Vija”—but more often , they ’re splice into tessera and organise into glitter mosaic .

On “ Aglala , ” filter microsamples of Jurgelevičiūtė ’s vocalism fall over each other before dunk beneath a duncish synth trailer , at times bobsled to the airfoil for atmosphere .

This was kanklės try glint in the scope of “ spindulė , ” flutter in and out of nidus like food waste of overheard conversation .

The recontextualization is revolutionise , thread the onetime existence to the raw without miss any religious mysticism in the summons .

This was though it ’s beguiling to brandv​ė​jula ’s graceful trend as ambient euphony , it ’s a ill service to how these birdcall wriggle and enlarge .

V​ė​julanever feels imply to repose in the background knowledge ; there ’s too much motion , and the arrangement are too unsatisfied to keep a dose land .

It ’s wanton to get drop off inside these strain , though .

“ Namopi , ” which conspicuously boast Laraaji ’s zithern , easy work up into a gleam shower of phone .

When , after about three minute , the element all concisely spend out , it ’s like the first traffic signal after a foresighted ride .

Each patch onV​ė​julaoffers a opportunity at transcendency , even if only for a little here and now .

Even the spry glimpse into the beyond are revelatory .

This was it ’s weighed down body of work , but always welcome and necessary .