Kane, Nero
For The Love, The Deah And The Poetry
The fourth studio album by songwriter, singer, and guitarist Nero Kane. A folk liturgy that oscillates between yearnings for eternal love, fascination with death, and spectral poetry. Psychomagic mysticism (As an Angel's Voice), stripped-down blues (My Pain Will Come Back to You), apocalyptic drones (Until the Light of Heaven Comes), guitar arpeggios (Mountain of Sin), twilight ballads (There Is No End), shamanic rites (Unto Thee Oh Lord), solemn organ and string notes (Receive My Tears) traverse the dark expanses of skeletal American deserts in an extended and obsessive ritual. Echoes of a romantic past (The World Heedless of our Pain) evoke the eternal power of art and love in contrast to the ephemeral vanity of existence, in a journey of redemption through the blinding and dark lands of good and evil (Land of Nothing). Kane's dark folk-tinged vocals and guitars are accompanied by the mellotron and the voice of long-time collaborator and multi-talented artist Samantha Stella, creating a unique and personal style defined as cathartic, desert-like, disturbing, ritualistic, and psychedelic - "A goth-folk procession in the desert for the living, in search of a creed." American Songwriter USA. References to the apocalyptic folk of Michael Gira/Jarboe/Swans, the gospel spirituality of Nick Cave, the perdition of Johnny Cash, the tragic poems of Nico - evoked in Stella's icy spoken word, as highlighted by critics - the visionary nature of Jodorowsky and the sick sound of Italian Occult Psychedelia, the latter being an element that characterizes.