Klimt 1918  - Promo-Cd 2000

"Secession Makes Post-Modern Music"

::: taken from Psycho! no. 45, February 2001 - Demo of the month :::



Rome, January 2001. Another band to hand over to the Others. Another name to fill the mouth with in front of the Others.The Others, those who till a few time ago have looked down, sometimes rightly, the local bands. Klimt 1918 with all their own merely mittle-european stylistic elegance have decided to catch a nocturnal smoky train to travel on the wings of good taste, through melancholy, the deepest feeling and the hardness more thoughtful of disillusion, in search of the perfect melody, of the most choral refrain, of that chorus that cannot remain in your thoughts. Formerly known as Another Day (perfect creature on horseback between death and classic-prog tradition à la Opeth/Edge of Sanity), these young guys from Rome guided by Soellner bros, don't hide behind the whiteness  of simplicity of things already heard, but try to escape it remaining however in love with unconscious pleasures coming exactly from simplicitiy itself, to draw what that to others may result impossible. Klimt 1918 suceed to blend in one only entity all the verve noir that Novembre (completely guests  and mainly promoters of the production of this promo) have wisely engraved in three records, with the recognizably Scandinavian morbid word of the last Katatonia (those in love with Jeff Buckley to be clear) in a bare and androgynous dress, not faraway from the refiniment of certain neo-dandy English bands  which assumes the charm of a 'collage' from the visual taste vaguely klimtian (just not to change subject). Could I say more? Sure, but further words quite  more shabby than those needed would finish to ruin this precious and velvety surprise that will put very soon on show in a sober and shining gallery its own works, exactly like only a worthy artist can do!                                                  

(Roberto Pantano)