Lycia - A Day In The Stark Corner

Описание: Guitarist Michael Van Portfleet (raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but residing in the Mesa Desert, Arizona) is Lycia (pronounced "laisi`-a" with an accent on the second "i"), an experiment that fuses cosmic electronica, industrial music, and instrumental psychedelia.

A Day In The Stark Corner was perhaps the most emotional work, with a frenzied liturgy and a yearning for transfiguration, which sustained the music of Lycia. And Through The Smoke And Nails was a vision, both beautiful and terrifying, whispered on a slow rhythm and methodology, that layered electronic sounds, passing from the idyllic (the melodic theme) to the heroic (the solemn crescendos of the keyboard), and from the gothic (filtered through a Gregorian choir) to the cosmic (it evolved into an infinite humming). The same funeral pace immortalized the instrumental Pygmalion, in which Van Portfleet hid his mix of unsettling piano notes. A sampling of bells was the basis of The Body Electric, another horrific, futuristic premonition. In tracks like The Morning Breaks So Cold And Gray and The Remnants And The Ruins, the gloomy lyrics of Lycia portrayed nature and mankind from a sinister perspective, using truly deep symphonic harmonies, with scores that were more reminiscent of Brahms than rock music. Daphne collapses under the abundance of sounds, leaving only a semblance of a song and chorus. At the same time "architectural" studies such as Wide Open Space explored the noise factors of luminosity, breadth, and depth, stepping away from the symphonic sound of Unnagumma (Pink Floyd); the languid guitar melodies and psychedelic whispers of Gilmour echoed a bit in all their tracks. The experimental tool of choice for Lycia was a distorting lens, through which nothing seemed to be what it was. The electronics were used by Van Portfleet not as equipment but rather as supporting structures, according to the rules of the "cosmic" new age. Lycia conserved, however, an earthly approach - vulgar and barbarous. Some tracks would be ideal background music for reading medieval texts about evil, the devil, and the apocalypse. Past and future were unified in the basic theme of Lycia's work: the torment and self-aggrandizement of man in the presence of a huge transcendent force.

Source: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/lycia.html

Tracklist:

0:00 1 - And Through The Smoke And Nails
6:51 2 - Pygmallion
12:49 3 - The Body Electric
18:09 4 - Wide Open Spaces
24:56 5 - The Morning Breaks So Cold And Gray
32:33 6 - The Remnants And The Ruins
39:26 7 - Goddess Of The Green Fields
42:00 8 - Everything Is Cold
45:25 9 - Sorrow Is Her Name
51:05 10 - Daphne

Genre: Ethereal, Darkwave
Country of Disk Production: US
Year of Disk Release: 1993
Publisher (Label): Projekt
Catalog Number: PRO 40
Country: US
Audio Codec: FLAC (*.flac)
Rip Type: Tracks
Audio Bitrate: Lossless