Seireenia

Seireenia Artist: Various Artists
Label: Projekt Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 617026009421
EAN: 0617026009421
ASIN: B00004RDQT


Release Date: 2000-03-14

Seireenia


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Tracks:

  1. Rajna - Rajna
  2. Questo Mostrarsi - Love Is Colder Than Death
  3. Maare Illucescend - Stoa
  4. Tyriel - La Vuibre
  5. Divine - Mira
  6. Overwhelmed, Beneath Me (2000 Version) - Black Tape For A Blue Girl
  7. Stray (Demo Version) - Faith & Disease
  8. It Swallows Me Whole - Rosewater Elizabeth
  9. Baltica - Lycia
  10. Dissolve - Switchblade Symphony
  11. Skin - Frolic
  12. The Bounding Main - Amber Asylum
  13. Shing Kee - Carl Stone

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Amazon.com

Continuing its focus on the ethereal side of goth, Projekt Records issues its answer to the Hyperium label's popular Heavenly Voices series: 13 tracks of sublime exoticism, from familiar faces (Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Lycia) to newcomers (Rajna, Mira) to long-lost friends (Stoa, Love Is Colder Than Death). Rajna, a French trio, are perhaps the compilation's most arresting contributors. Mining the same musicultural vein as Dead Can Dance (the resemblance is truly uncanny), they float Jeanne Lefebvre's soaring vocals atop hammered dulcimer, flute, strings, and tribal percussion. Mira, the disc's other notable newcomers, take a stab at rock of the shoe-gazer variety, winding up somewhere between the fuzzy guitar sound of My Bloody Valentine and the gentle sway of Love Spirals Downwards. Fans of the genre will want this album for the few tracks that are unavailable elsewhere, but curiosity seekers will find much to like in this sampler of goth's more benevolent practitioners. --Steve Landau

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Otherworldly (and sometimes worldly) gems........2004-04-07

I was new to the heady delights issuing forth from Projekt Records when I bought this album, and I have to say, it blows me away and has inspired many a foray in search of more from some of the artists featured. I still play it frequently (usually with a couple of tracks ommitted, I have to say).

The highlights for me on this beautiful compilation for the most part are the neo-classical selections. La Vuibre, Stoa, Lycia, and Love Is Colder Than Death are simply fabulous.

I also appreciate the extra aspect that many of the selections are unavailable elsewhere, adding to the specialness.

There are a couple of odd tracks, in my view, namely the dreadful Switchblade Symphony track, which lowers the tone after the majestic heights reached by Lycia immediatly previous. The other would be the closing track, which, though interesting in it's own way, is a puzzling addition, that seems rather out of place in this company, and which I imagine many Goths would find rather irritating.

This is though, a great collection for fans of the ethereal, wispy end of the Gothic universe. We could do with Projekt putting out a second collection along the same lines.

4 out of 5 stars Mira says it best... Divine.......2004-03-26

I love buying compilation albums (especially from Projekt records) because it's a great way to discover new bands. There's usually several duds among the bunch but there's always a few hidden gems that really catch the ear and make it all worthwhile. "Seireenia" is a collection of relatively slow numbers with ethereal singers that spellbind like sirens, enslaving you with their haunting voices... This contains some of the best ambient darkwave groups presently around, such as Black Tape for a Blue Girl with "Overwhelmed, Beneath Me" and Lycia with one of my favorite songs by them, "Baltica", but there's also a slur of lesser known acts that are just as talented. Rajna, which opens the album with a tribal feel that will certainly appeal to Dead Can Dance fans, the short yet remarkably stunning "Questo Mostrarsi" by Love Is Colder Than Death, the transcending beauty of "Maare Illucescend" by Stoa and "It Swallows Me Whole" by Rosewater Elizabeth impressed me in particular. And while "Dissolve" by Switchblade Symphony may sound a bit out of place it fits in perfectly. Besides, an upbeat tempo was definitely in order.

3 out of 5 stars Very Average.......2004-03-24

There isn't much to get excited about on this cd. All of the voices and music pretty much blend into each other and there is very little distinction between artists. It is not bad, just not very inspired. Switchblade Symphony is the best of the bunch but you would be better off buying one of their cd's. Marginally good ritual music. Save your pennies unless you can get it used.

4 out of 5 stars "I can't see light.....".......2002-03-15

'Seireenia' is a collection of songs by various artists published under the label 'Projekt', a label of independent music to the mid 90's to present as what 'Factory' music to the 80's to 90's. The album is unified in style throughout the 13 songs. In general, the 'Projekt' music is, as suggested in the album's cover if you are sensitive enough, minimal, atmospheric, majestic, angelic voice (often female- fronted), dark, moody techno music with sparse drums beating in-between.

The most recommended track in the album is 'Divine' by Mira in which you are in a state of dream, a reflection of life. Peaceful, it pulls you out of depression with hope in the near end. Faith and Disease is another band I like very much under the 'Projekt' label. 'Stray', an un-released title before, while folkish, pulls you back into good old memories. This is not a best track by Faith and Disease so check out their other albums. Black Tape for a Blue Girl, the fronted band under the label as the label's owner plays in the band, has a better than usual 'Overwhelmed, beneath me'. The band is not my favorite ( because I find their music is sometimes too monotonous), but this song changed my impression.

'It Swallows me Whole' by Rosewater Elizabeth single-handedly push the album to its high tides. No one can spare his sweat when Rosewater's phantom voice swirls around you, singing 'I can't see light'. Others like Stoa, Love is Colder than Death and Lycia are also featured in the album and the singles selected are fair enough to pay the price again even if you have bought their album before.

Overall, this album is a great introduction to what the label stands for. For others who have been following the bands, this is also a good experience to refresh in an hour of delicate collection.

1 out of 5 stars

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