After a seven years running period of dissatisfaction and frustration creative mind Richard Lederer of Vienna based, Austrian Neoclassic project DIE VERBANNTEN KINDER EVAS has found himself a new singer and thus time and new impulses to finally release his fourth album work Dusk And Void Became Alive. Seems, there's life in the old dog yet…
However, this long waiting was definitely worthwhile since Dusk And Void Became Alive turned out to be a gem of neoclassic music art. The Dark Wave aspects as found on the predecessor In Darkness Let Me Dwell were completely left aside this time. But thanks to the brilliant voice of Greek singer Christina Kroustali fantastic contrapuntal melodies are back. In its production and musical expressiveness Dusk And Void Became Alive approaches close to artists such as Elend (without the apocalyptic factor) and Dark Sanctuary. Sound pictures are very dark, sometimes spread out to orchestral width and enwrap the listener with a web of deepest melancholy. Percussive passages as in Winters Night set accents and mix up the depressive mood a bit, whereas spinet-like tunes and piano melodies as well care for variety, but this time add a more of dramatic.
All songs are without fail and just beautiful, homogeneous, can stand for itself or unite to a whole sound picture. Just the synth tunes in Uniquet Thoughts cause some discomfort.
This album is a masterpiece!