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Like a very thin
crystal glass. Of such a fragile and soft beauty that one can be afraid,
listening to it, that an awkward movement can break its magic. It's the
suffused atmospheres, the refined arrangements, the little details and the
dreamy melodies to characterize this "Undressed Momento", charming first
opera of the Italian Klimt 1918: very high peaks and deep abysses
alternate continuously, in an unfinishing vortex of emotions, like in a
hypnotical dance made of 9 awesome chapters. A listening to catch its
pronounced sweetness, other tens to taste all of its facets, to learn by
heart every important passage, to turn shy beauty into outshown appeal.
Gothic metal echoes (Katatonia, Anathema) merge with the immortal teaching
of the dark wave of the Eighties (The Cure) to give birth to this
surprising creature, capable of caressing softnesses but also of sudden
and surprising whiplashes ("Stalingrad theme"). And the shining and round
production at Outer Sound Studios (Orlando and Pagliuso, straight from
Novembre) is just the closing of the perfect circle. A pearl by which My
Kingdom Music repeats the exploit of the excellent Room with a View: two
partially different entities that are linked by a not common maturity and,
on the path of the best Novembre (them again), addressed towards a shining
future. Klimt 1918: new born, but already great.
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