Some people around you are always fast-paced and the job causes stress on you once again? No problem, Italian band CANAAN has got the right anti-stress-program for you!
Gently, nearly dreamy the convenient songs like This World Of Mine flow ahead, musically close to newer Tiamat sounds. Singer Mauro’s voice is similar to the one of Johan Edlund, has got intensive volume and transports a lot of comfortable emotions. Up to now, CANAAN’s musical development has passed me by nearly traceless, I hardly can remember the last album A Calling To Weakness. There are no big changes in style and that’s really good. Some interludes remind me of soundtracks, they make clear that CANAAN is extraordinary; the album’s title seems to have a deeper meaning. During the whole playing time, calm passages and pauses are given clearance – the motto seems to be: one word less is better than ten too much. The vocal performance can totally satisfy me, for instance the atmospheric refrain of The Possible Nowheres is really felicitous. The lyrics are also interesting, partly recited in Italian language – and the speech melody fits the dark coloured lyrical sentiments perfectly.
In the beginning, I had my problems with The Unsaid Words, on the surface the album seems to spread too calm and homogenous, nearly monotonous feelings; but when listening more concentrated (phones are a good idea!), this impression changes and multidimensional acoustic landscapes are opened. Sometimes the instrumentation is spartanic and reduced to the musical skeleton, but that’s the reason why songs like Fragments #1 develop a certain charm. The whole thing has nothing got to do with Metal - doom, dark and depressive rock is predominant and so the band’s slogan does not astonish: “Nothing, Never, Nowhere…” The Unsaid Words is definitely music for relaxation – and we all need this in between!