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Dreamlike creatures, hallucinated and hallucinatory landscapes, fanciful symbols coming to life, chaotic scenes of an imaginary world, concrete forms of suggestions and inquietudes. Jeroen Bosch may appear to be an atypical element when compared to other Flemish artists, faithful in representing the bourgeois and urban context in which they lived. But exteriority does not interest him, the knowledge of the surface does not satisfy him, and he expends his energies in delving deeply into the human being, rummaging through the depths of the conscience, eager to bring to light the emotional turmoil that lies within. A concentration of the medieval and gothic spirit that continues to permeate the Central European Renaissance culture, different in values from the Italian "classicismo," an expression of the subdued malaise, ready to explode, of pre-Lutheran Europe, Bosch makes his works the epitome of the completed analysis. The verdict is clear. We are heading towards a crisis. We are slowly slipping into corruption.
The musical experimentation of Dead Can Dance evolves according to a line that can be paralleled with the history of the last 1,000 years, with frequent and happy episodes of perfect synthesis between different periods, sensitivities, and contents, even those very distant in time. The use of "period instrumentation" and the vocal talents of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry are, from a formal aspect, the founding elements of "Aion", a 1990 album, but ideally and musically locatable between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. An album that, while not achieving the overall value of previous works ("Spleen and Ideal" and "The Serpent's Egg"), conceptually constitutes an advancement, if not even a completion, in the journey undertaken by the Australian duo. On the cover, a detail taken from a Bosch triptych.
"The Garden of Earthly Delights" is an allegorical depiction of moral decay and the spiritual disorientation of man, filled with images and symbols deeply rooted in medieval traditions and alchemical practice. A cry, laden with contrition, hurled upward, with strength and passion. A cry that can also be expressed by ethereal madrigals, solemn choirs, or clear ballads. With grace. And spirituality.
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