CW // mental health, depression
from the Serpent Single • free download: https://blacktapeforabluegirl.bandcamp.com/album/the-chaos-serpent-single
Vocals: Jon DeRosa. Strings: Henrik Meirekord. Electronics & video edit: Sam Rosenthal.
Video footage: http://www.pexels.com/@cottonbro & http://www.pexels.com/@shvets-production & http://www.pexels.com/@mart-production
©Seireenien Music, BMI
Projekt Records
Complementing the remaster of Black Tape For A Blue Girl’s 1991 fourth album A CHAOS OF DESIRE, the current 3-piece “Serpent” line-up recorded these neoclassical reinterpretations of two of the album’s songs. The focus on strings and vocals reveals a new shine upon the dark existential beauty. These passionate tales inhabit a chaotic realm of memory, fear and desire confronting pained emotions.
Bandleader and synthesist Sam Rosenthal is joined by Swedish cellist and experimental musician Henrik Meierkord and vocalist Jon DeRosa, the latter known for his projects Aarktica, Dead Leaves Rising & Pale Horse and Rider. With this line-up, their poetic and profound pathos has gracefully evolved to a minimalist trio — the subtle, dramatic interweaving of synth and strings is the ideal basis for Jon’s expressive, sorrowful voice.
Blending darkwave, ambient and neoclassical, the unique character of this introspective and starkly compelling music seamlessly befits the lyrical despair. These two tracks are a captivatingly elegant addition to Black Tape For A Blue Girl’s 36+ year discography.