Sopor Aeternus
Dead Lovers' Sarabande - Face One

Here I am, emerging from the vinyl tunnel in favor of an album that's already five years old but that I've only recently discovered. It is a small jewel of chamber-gothic-dark-music (just for this definition, I deserve half a point more...) released under the name “Sopor Aeternus,” an indefinable and ambiguous creature calling itself Anna Varney (who knows!).

But since this is not the Novella 2000 website, let's move on to the album. As I was saying, a small masterpiece that masterfully mixes gothic-style lyrics (just try reading the lyrics of Poe’s “The sleeper” to believe it) with almost Renaissance, classical music that is so dark, triumphant at times, yet subdued, and heartbreaking in others, as well as funereal in various interludes. This variety significantly increases the longevity of this album, which cannot be compared to any other release simply because it has no comparisons or points of reference! It is a NEW CREATURE, something difficult to find today, where the word COMMERCIAL takes over many musicians, pushing them to fall back on the same notes, the same ones that worked the last time, which in turn worked in another singer's album, etc.
In short, a beautiful, long-lasting album, well-played, well-developed, and equally well-thought-out. The sequel (face two) is also beautiful, another masterpiece that I will review as soon as possible.

P.S. To fuel the mystery around the band (for completeness: Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows), know that they DO NOT PERFORM CONCERTS IN ANY WAY... so the only way to hear them is through their records. As for seeing them… could it be my next-door neighbor?
Helpooooooooooooooo……..

Stay tuned!!!

Rating: 6/5 because not only is the album beautiful, but it is also an absolute novelty, a true creation never touched before. The de-bosses, however, won't allow me!