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SOL INVICTUS

In a Garden Green
1999 TURSA 021CD
50:41

Tony Wakeford's latest Sol Invictus release continues his entrancement with neoclassical influences (more explicitly pursued in his Orchestre Noir project), whilst nodding to his apocalyptic folk and industrial roots. My favourites are 'O Rubor Sanguinis' (text by Hildegard von Bingen), 'Song of the Flower' (traditional text) and the title track. The lyrics reflect further disdain for the world and its people and further retreat into a private world bounded by the walls of a literal and metaphorical Bastide in a homeland defined by fountains and statues. Whether reflecting a fantasy past, present or future, Sol is the rush of a familiar drug pumping through the veins. Artwork is by Tor Lundvall and Andrew King and the album comes in a slipcase with a mini poster of the Tor painting used for the cover.

Rik - 9 June 1999

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