Cult
Liverpool musicians' new album searches for truth, beauty and meaning
in a messed up world!
Musicians reforming for the coin may garner more
column inches but when they do so for the music, and because they
have something to say, the results are infinitely more interesting
and worthy of our attention. Such is the case with Beauty Will
Save The World. After an 18 year hiatus RAIJ feel the time is
right for for the world to hear their latest work. A low-key release
it may be, but one that deserves and needs to be heard.
With such a loaded
album title (a Dostoevsky quote), the music has a lot to live up to.
It doesn't disappoint. Comprised of ambient, soft cinematic
soundscapes with poetical spoken word passages drifting in from the
ether in a variety of languages. Over several listens a central
thrust emerges, one concerned with religion, beauty, truth and
transcendence. The music is gentle and tinged with sadness yet
manages to be both elegiac and hopeful. Although there are several
languages throughout the album (every continent represented), the
album is about connections rather than differences. Truly music for
the healing of nations. It may get overlooked in the
end-of-year/Christmas scramble but you're unlikely to find a more
affecting and unique album. Recommended.
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Occultation Recordings.
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