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Rating: The Splendor of the Sun. Or more likely a mirage, a call from distant times and lands.
This album is an enchanting mystical journey, desert-like settings, and sonic visions that accompany our drifting emotions and take us back to the early seventies.
The folk spirit and the roughness of the blues in an electroacoustic poem spiced with oriental aromas and a fair dose of psychedelia. It’s pointless to deny that The Tea Party makes a clear reference to the work of the Dirigible, particularly the band's pastoral phase, for its deliberately retro sound, but also and especially for the refined and exotic arrangements.
And then you hear Jeff Martin's booming voice and it's as if Led Zeppelin had just hired their shaman, a revived Jim Morrison, to bring their music to a parallel dimension.
However, the leader of The Tea Party wants to amaze us to the end and displays guitar skills at the level of the best Page, experimenting with alternative tunings with ease and any combination of strings.
It is music born free from restraint where every note breathes freely, ready to transcend our inner boundaries. It is the river that introduces us to the journey and there is no Charon waiting for us. A hypnotic tribal dance accompanies us to a place where the night swallows the day. And it's only a certain inclination of light that shows us the way, as we struggle to distinguish reality from dream.
We find ourselves sitting on the edges of the night, wrapped in a shroud of hysterical distortions that alternate with the purifying rituals of the 12-string. Strangers to whom the sky is not foreign. For us, the stars will shine, amidst the melancholic notes of a majestic song.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 The River (05:43)
Sailing down, down the Styx again,
Without you my love, I want to return but then,
I see all my friends, they want me to join but then,
They all melt away, without you alone.
And the river's running through my veins.
Lately she don't seem the same.
And the blood keeps calling out my name.
I pass by the sins, left by a different man,
The tides brought them here, cast by a different hand.
And the wisps of the winds, blow with the Styx again.
Pushing me on, without you alone.
And the river's running through my veins.
Lately she don't seem the same.
And the blood keeps calling out my name.
And the river running down
And the river running down
And the river running down
And the river
My will must be strong, to rise with a different light.
My will must belong, I'm still pushing for different heights.
And the wisps of the winds blow with the Styx again.
The river runs red, and I'm left alone.
And the river's running thru my veins.
Lately she don't seem the same.
And the blood keeps calling out my name.
And the river's running.
Help me baby
02 Midsummer Day (05:57)
When you've decided to hold on to all that you've lost
When you've decided to hold on to all that you've lost
All this is nothing if she comes and tears you apart
All this is nothing if you hold the key to her heart
If you've decided to change what you thought was your way
This new way will take you to her and to midsummer day
All this is nothing if she comes and tears you apart
All this is nothing if you hold the key to her heart
And I'm crying in the night
And I'm waiting for her call
Won't you help me girl tonight
Cause I'm waiting for her call
And I'm crying in the night
And she's flowing from my mind
And the sky is turning black
And I'm running out of time
You'll shed a last tear if you miss what you thought was your way
This new way will take you to her and to midsummer day
All this is nothing if she comes and tears you apart
All this is nothing if you hold the key to my heart
All you are is in you
05 Save Me (06:34)
I must leave you tonight my love, remain so faithfully
I must go off to war my dear, the kings await me
I will go so far away.
I will always love you, but you knew it.
I regret to tell you, your man has died tonight.
He was a brave man, he fought a brave fight.
He was killed by the other side.
He was killed by the other men's knives.
She said save me
Save me
Why must you love this man, he is your brother?
This is easy to understand, my son, there is no other.
I cannot pretend to love this man like my father.
I cannot pretend, mother, there is no other.
She said save me
Save me
When there is no truth, let's end this lie tonight.
This is easy to understand, without your best eyes.
But I see a new sun rising in the east
But I see a new sun rising in the east
She said save me
Save him
08 Dreams of Reason (06:18)
Oh how the paths change,
When the wisdom fades away.
Something's going to change these times,
And we'll watch them fade away.
Never going to get it back.
Never going to get it back.
And that's what they say,
When I've promised to change my ways.
And we've all had these days.
Oh I can feel her,
In the inside of these rooms.
Something's going to change these times,
And we'll watch them fade away.
Never going to get it back.
Never going to get it back.
And that's what they say,
When I've promised to change my ways.
And we've all had these days.
Baby I really need your love.
I've got to have all your love.
It's cold outside,
I'm trying to hide.
I really need your love
09 Raven Skies (05:16)
I am walking on to the place of the light.
And the things I see with the starlight sight.
In the dance of the fires in the flames I see,
Under raven skies she will sleep with me.
And I need her now and I need you.
Welcome to my garden and what do you see?
Welcome to my garden do you still see me?
I am looking through through the dance of the trees.
I experience what a shaman sees.
I've returned within I've returned with sight.
Under raven skies I will sleep tonight.
And I need her now and I need you.
Welcome to my garden and what do you see?
Welcome to my garden do you still see me?
And I need her now.
Welcome to my garden and what do ya see
Welcome to my garden do you still see me?
Welcome to my garden and what do you see?
Welcome to my garden do you still see me?
Do you still see me?
And I need her now
And I need her now
And I need her now!
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