Black Flowers - I Grew Up From A Stone To A Statue

First album from this quartet from Glasgow formed by musicians who have been wandering through different projects and now coincide in this kind of "superband" called Black Flowers. Led by English drummer Alexander Neilson, the quartet delivers "I Grew Up From A Stone To A Statue", a brief record , just over 30 minutes, in which the band offer 5 pieces that evoke English folk and medieval music, specially the vocals parts, combined with sixties psychedelia and a strong tendency to improvisation. While the opener "Calvary Cross" goes from total softness, with delicate and subtle vocals, to moments of wildness in which guitar and organ build intense passage of psychedelic jamming, other songs such as "Hot Crosses" or "And Words Fell Like The Malting Blossom" offer amazing moments with ethereal vocals barely accompanied by chaotic percussion or electro guitars. The record ends with Lavinia Blackwall singing "Sweets Rivers Of Redeeming Love" a sweet folk ballad. While not extraordinary “I Grew Up From A Stone To A Statue" is an interesting effort, although, due to the nature of the band, with a certain ephemeral smell. -CORANNIEIT-

Black Flowers, I Grew Up From A Stone To A Statue
Bo Weavil Recordings, 2009

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Bo Weavil Recordings Official Site