Don’t we all love a good Doomjazz record? A record with nice shifts and sways, with movement all across the registers of “blackened” Jazz parts slowly moving Doom-like to and fro, throwing us and our listening habits overboard every once in a while, or rather several times in a song? For all those out there, this full record premiere is just for you: To Die on Ice let us give you Panoramica degli Abissi!</b>
If a band calls their music “Lynch Core” you know that you are in for a kind of weirdly elegant treat. And yes, one can see why the band from Bologna, Italy gave themselves that kind of unique trademark. Their songs develop slowly, sometimes bear the notions of subtle horror which is not based on blood and gore but rather on the pictures in our head, which make us shiver even more so.
With their new record, a joint release by Gymnocal Industries and Subsound Records, they deliver the soundtrack to a book of the same name by Filippo Dionisi. “A novel set in a surreal post-New Year’s Eve, where the two protagonists, Paul and Bacall, happen to cross paths, along with their respective destinies and secret fears, on the parapets of an overpass, to find themselves in a race aboard a car that becomes a glowing submarine hurled toward the unknown.” When thinking about this story and listening to To Die on Ice’s thirteen songs, all trying to give sound to one moment in the book, one clearly has an image inside his head of how the great master might have composed the movie. And even though my image might not be cohesive or comparable to yours, one thing both probably have in common: It’s not a very bright picture and the color palette consists of mostly dark browns right?
That the band is able to create these images in the head of someone who doesn’t know the book is a very special feat which not a lot of bands can claim for themselves. These guys and their somewhat laconic yet strident nevertheless sound can. Remarkable!
You can pre-order the record via Subsound Records or via Gymnocal Industries - and now enjoy Panoramica… and its wonderful, shifty songs!
