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6.5
- Band:
Déhà - Duration: 01:12:03
- Available from: 03/14/2025
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Naturmoncht Productions
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Behind the pseudonym of the Belgian musician Olmo Lipani is hidden, a name that will tear a smile from the old enthusiasts of never saying goal of the golden times; In this case, however, we are definitely at the antipodes of the unlikely singer led to the success by Fabio De Luigi: you do not laugh at all and you have a little fun, being the proposal that can be inserted in all respects in the plumbeo and obvious Funeral Doom.
The work consists of only two very long traces, which are then those that constitute the title of the album: “Nethermost”, almost three quarters of an hour, and “apsolute comfort”, almost half an hour, in truth very similar, unlike what you can expect from a versatile, prolific and eclectic musician as Déhà.
The first is slightly less austere, who also lives on melancholy and suffused solo guitar passages with a vague Pinkfloydian taste, and more extreme the second, where the heartbreaking and desperate incede has no respite; Overall, we are in the presence of a funeral doom closest to ambient music and the drone that to the actual metal, a disc that must be appreciated only by completely immersing itself in the hypnotic incede gloomy and distressing of the tools, without expecting anything that has to do with the typical dynamics of extreme metal.
As a multi -instrumentalist, singer, producer and sound technician, the good déhà – better to stay on the name of art – can definitely know how to do it: the arrangements are well built, the voice remembers the splendid Jan Kenneth Transeth of “Heart of the Ages” of the in the Woods, capable of alternating between very high and a tormented and singing clean voice, to which the classic Growl is added, and guttural, typical of the funeral doom; Solist keyboards and guitars are well congenital and well -performed scores; The rhythmic section is finally reduced to the bone, but functional for the purpose.
What leaves a little perplexed all in all is a certain canonticity of the proposal: it does not appear in the most original set of the albums of Pthumulhu or Blind Monarch who came out last year and is not so far from what the Bethlehem pioneers experienced already thirty years ago, despite being absolutely contemporary in the conception, in sounds and arrangements.
In short, the two compositions are played and recorded with all the trappings and both give moments of great kidnapping and emotion, but at the end of the long sound orientation the desire to dive again is little, and not so much for the extreme drama, but for the not very strong background originality. The effort required in listening should be rewarded by the satisfaction of having experienced a unique and dazzling experience, which unfortunately cannot be said happens in this case; In short, there is no guy who is legitimate to expect from a whimsical musician like Déhà, who puts so much professionalism and the experience of one who has played us with these sounds for some time, but, where it would have been legitimate to expect something more particular, we find instead a – however good – gender disc, suitable for enthusiasts of the subject or fans of the Belgian, eager to test his outcome in this expressive field. And this seems to be his strength, capable of gathering a small niche of enthusiasts anyway: the desire to get involved continuously, exploring everything that seems to be in his ropes, from piano sonatas to Deathroom, from black industrial to the most atmospheric one, with a truly commendable prolific and constancy.
Perhaps other times the results may have been more compelling and intriguing – it is worth mentioning, in the endless production of the Belgian musician, at least the excellent “Ave Maria II” of 2021 and “Decadanse” of 2022 – but it is necessary to underline the uncommon ability of this artist, able to range significantly between one genre and the other, without offering anything revolutionary, but with an indisputable skill in appropriate in short, Typical of extreme metal and knowing how to re -propose them in a credible and formally flawless way.
However, it should also be considered that seeking its own style, even if classic or derivative, should be for a more appropriate and stimulating artist of jumping pole in Frasca.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
