DVAR – Piirrah (CD 2002)

(SPKR/E.N.D.E. www.endemusic.com )

This release from the italian SPKR/E.N.D.E. label is a really strange one. The artwork contains nearly no more infos, than the song titles, so I can write about the music only. It is mostly electronic Dark Wave with very few influences from Industrial and sometimes small medieval sounds. Often it is very dancable like the track „Vo Rah Arrah iill“ and has a voice, that can be best described as if the three witches from „Macbeth“ made a record. I don´t know, if the lyrics make any sense, because they are, like the song titles, sung in a language, I don´t understand...well, maybe it is no real language at all. The music sounds heavily like the early 90s Dark Wave of bands like Das Ich, Ghosting, Relatives Menschsein and very early (tape period) Eternal Afflict and other projects mostly from Germany. As longer, as I listen to this release, I think, that most of the tracks sound very similar, but all in all, the album is okay, even it is definetly not groundbreaking. I would like to know more about this project, for example, if it is some kind of serious Ritual project or more kind of fun. Strange... (A.P.)