Dreamchild
La Fee Verte
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A soundtrack to absinthe-tinged dreams & nightmares, filled with ethereal yet dark & disturbing vocals, richly textured guitar soundscapes and otherworldly wire-strung harp.
tracks
- 1 The Stolen Child
- 2 La Fee Verte
- 3 Capacocha
- 4 Nimue
- 5 Do Bats Eat Cats?
- 6 Leanan-Sidhe
- 7 Pandora's Music Box
- 8 Your Eyes
- 9 Cry Baby Cry (Can You Take Me Back)
- 10 Nijinsky's Descent
- 11 Procession
- 12 The Blade
- 13 As It Came
- 14 Requiem
- 15 In the Night
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"La Fee Verte" is the long-awaited follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed debut CD, "Gates to the Sea".
Here are some reviews of their first cd:
"Gates to the Sea by Dreamchild is...deeply affecting. The Ghost of Dead Can Dance is summoned up. Cheryl Wanner's keenings, laughter and odd intonations place her alongside Diamanda Galas as a vocal idiosyncratic. She's complemented perfectly by Frank Gerace's Frippian guitar. Intuitive music-making of a high order." - Joe Cushley, Mojo Magazine
"I was really surprised by this album; snap-judging from the cover art and liner photos, I was expecting neo-Renaissance sweet stuff. Though occasionally effusive, but certainly not "sweet" per se, I would dare use the term "neo-Renaissance" to remark on only a couple tracks here.
Dreamchild is actually quite psychedelic, occasionally exotic and darkly experimental. Cheryl Wanner's vocals are the central aspect of the music, often powerful and raw with emotion (e.g. Seahorses and Steel Tomb), but they also emerge gentle and light (Murias 1 & 2 and Sirens' Song).
In addition to her talents as a singer, you'll also hear Wanner growl, scream and laugh at points on Gates to the Sea, dramatically enhancing the lyrics or music itself - thankfully, enough to do so without taking it over the proverbial top.
Her voice is complemented by the eerie drones and jangling harmonies of Frank Gerace's guitars.
Throughout the album, both members take up other instruments as well, including harp, rainstick and a variety of percussion. Gates to the Sea proves considerable creativity on the part of Dreamchild. I don't even know who I could compare them to for reference, but that should be considered a positive comment." - Lara Haynes, Outburn Magazine
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A Haunting and Beautiful CD
author: Krista LilithThis is overall a very wonderful CD. It is haunting and dark at times, but in a beautiful way. Other reviews I had read about this album/band led me to believe it might be overwhelmingly dark, but this is indeed not the case. This CD has quickly become one of my new favorites.
Dark enchantment.
author: J.Delicately plucked harp, ominous bass drones and the ghostly echo of a guitar, all of this entwined with Wanner's staggering and startlingly emotive vocals. At times she is akin to Grace Slick possessed of a thousand demons and she imbues every song with a kind of operatic intensity. Part Celtic folk, part dark-wave and part psychedelia. This is not easy-listening mood music, you will never hear this piping out of the speakers of a dentist's waiting room. This album is like taking a deep bite of one of those apples from that old hallowe'en myth - sweet and delicious but you just know that there's a razorblade concealed in there somewhere. It recalls the earliest of fairy-tales - the ones that while utterly evocative are also bloody and haunting. There is magic here, but it carries with it a darkness that makes it all the more compelling. Now if only I can get my hands on "Gates to the Sea"...