CULT OF RUINS: Funeral Folk

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Silvester Anfang - Damnation on tweede Kerstdag

Silvester Anfang is the Funeral Folk collective gathered in a free folk droneband. The band started as a three-piece of Per, Edgar and Hellvete, but now the line-up depends on who’s available to record/perform. Together with Ignatius Van Kempenhof and PI666 (who now became a vulcanologist in Switzerland) Silvester Anfang started searching for a sound that might be something called Pagan Belgopsych. The compositions are mostly non-musical offertories to worship their almighty overlord Brohll, but every now and then things just work out as free psychedelic improvisations.

(Taken from Last.fm)

More to come, more to come.....(:

[ Funeral Folk / 2004 / Funeral Folk / CBR@320 ]

Tracklist

01. Damnation on tweede Kerstdag (11:08)

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11:08

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Silvester Anfang - We creep within dark Places

It's somehow appropriate that the CDr of Funeral Folk's Silvester Anfang on 'We creep within dark places' shows medieval demons being cast out. This is a demo CDr of improvised free folk. It's like the soundtrack to a witch purging horror film, tense strings and drunken brass parading with acoustic guitar and hand drums. Often though the music has a doomed beauty about it, on the second track light seems to shine on their funeral coffins through unopened windows. This may be the music of the undead, but they aspire to life. Theirs is a simple music, reduced down to the essentials where child like melodies play over stumbling rhythms. But it is effective, when they collapse into a moment of cohesive harmony, you smile.
It seems genuinely to take them by surprise, they do not know where it will go. Somehow the music is old, yellowed pages in leather bound books. It hangs in the air, like the musty smell in old libraries, familiar and not unwelcome, but out of place. This is muysic for silent films never made of the creeping uneasiness of Ambrose Bierce and Sheridan Le Fanu, masters of the gothic with their crumbling manors of romance beyond death. For the brave in heart and those who say their prayers by night, we cautiously recommend this and all Funeral Folk releases. Toxis lullabies for the buried alive......

(Taken from here)

Third strike in a row now from the evil satanic nihilists hailing from Belgium....

Funeral Folk

[ Funeral Folk / 2005 / Funeral-Folk / CBR@192 ]

Tracklist

01. Silvester Anfang Evokatie (02:01)

02. Man met de Bokkepoot (09:56)

03. Obscure Goat Workship (02:58)

04. Troops of Silvester (08:37)

05. De Verderfzaaier (03:01)

06. Bukkake Ritual (06:12)

07. The End of Tape (02:07)

08. Nachtschade (05:33)

09. Morbid Missions (04:55)

10. Moorderijen der Uhland (03:57)

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49:23

Mediafire

Silvester Anfang - Heidense Maagden

Silvester Anfang is the Funeral Folk collective gathered in a free folk droneband. The band started as a three-piece of Per, Edgar and Hellvete, but now the line-up depends on who’s available to record/perform. Together with Ignatius Van Kempenhof and PI666 (who now became a vulcanologist in Switzerland) Silvester Anfang started searching for a sound that might be something called Pagan Belgopsych. The compositions are mostly non-musical offertories to worship their almighty overlord Brohll, but every now and then things just work out as free psychedelic improvisations.

(Taken from Last.fm)

I was looking for a detailed review for this one (just like on the other two records) but this time I didn't find even one, but after listenning to the last two records of Silvester Anfang which I've posted you should know what you're getting. Enjoy!

Funeral Folk

[ Funeral Folk / 2006 / Funeral-Folk / VBR ]

Tracklist

Disc I

01. Introductie (01:50)

02. Orthodoxe Sthapen (28:02)

03. Berhoert int Foreest (08:37)

04. Demonarchie (07:31)

Disc II

05. Wolven (00:36)

06. Geitekeutel (12:22)

07. Zwart (08:22)

08. Ongetiteld (25:02)

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92:26

Mediafire

Silvester Anfang - Satanische Vrede

(K-RAA-K) release cloven-hoofed misanthropes Silvester Anfang?s first proper release on thick black wax. And it?s about time. These guys have been spitting out blackened CDRs and cassettes as the Funeral Folk Collective like the San Fernando Valley produces porn and I?m very thankful for one. On the cover the group stand in lush woods, shirtless, their heads covered in white hoods, holding two white goats tethered on ropes, a couple of members holding wooden staffs, and what an impression it makes, but not surprisingly really, what else would you expect from a collective that has band names like Jesus Balls and Chainsaw Gutsfuck.

Anyway, it?s an impressive image and really it does do well in giving an idea of what lays wait inside the recordings. Where in Belgium?s blackest take bells, acoustic strings, electric guitars, flutes, cassettes, melodica, shambolic drumming and who knows what else and making them metal, black metal, blacker than the blackest black times infinity. With ney a power chord in sight this revolving cast of satanic contributors create the soundtrack to mysterious rituals, conjuring the deepest darkest hippie nightmares you?ve never been able to imagine. The first track, "Kraaien op het veld (Demonic Agricultuur II)" opens the LP by building aforementioned shambolic percussion, plucked strings and feedback into a hypnotic thudding raag and chant, until eventually a totally menacing blues guitar punctuates the darkness, leaving you haunted with the ghosts of every blues man that ever sold their soul to old Beelzebub. The rest of the album basically follows suit; slowly developing improvisations that eventually take flight into heavily blackened acoustic jams of the finest order.

This is really a beautiful record, and that?s what makes it menacing in my book. If your reading the pages of this website chances are you probably don?t need to be convinced, but fuck it, I?ll say it anyway, you need this. You know that emptiness you feel inside? This will fix that for a second. Even if the music sucked (which it definitely doesn?t) I?d keep it just for the cover.

(Taken from here)

I mentioned Silvester Anfang some weeks ago, here we go now with more obscure stuff from this weird collective. Enjoy!

Funeral Folk

[ K-RAA-K / 2007 / Funeral-Folk / CBR@320 ]

Tracklist

01. Kraaien op het Veld (Demonische Agricultuur II) (13:23)

02. De Vuylaerdt (01:43)

03. Verkraacht door Demonen (07:30)

04. De Gal komt in mijn Mond (03:41)

05. Eenich haijr in de Beutere (04:15)

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30:34

Mediafire

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Silvester Anfang - Echte vlaamse Geiten

Silvester Anfang is the Funeral Folk collective gathered in a free folk droneband. The band started as a three-piece of Per, Edgar and Hellvete, but now the line-up depends on who’s available to record/perform. Together with Ignatius Van Kempenhof and PI666 (who now became a vulcanologist in Switzerland) Silvester Anfang started searching for a sound that might be something called Pagan Belgopsych. The compositions are mostly non-musical offertories to worship their almighty overlord Brohll, but every now and then things just work out as free psychedelic improvisations.

Latest release from these purveyors of funeral folk avant ambient doom, Silvester Anfang. You may remember their last lp because of the very striking cover image, a sort of Mentors meets the Ku Klux Klan, shirtless men wearing hoods with goats in the middle of a forest. Very fucked up and creepy, which perfectly matched the music inside. Not too much has changed sonically, if anything, they seem to have gotten even more abstract, a sound with definite nods to the Finnish folk contingent, trashcan percussion, lots of shakers and rattles, a distant keening buzz, far off swells of minor key rumble, creepy tin whistle melodies, bits of guitar, obtuse and angular. The sound is very heavily rhythm based, with various other instruments and sounds ebbing and flowing around the primal percussive chaos at Silvester Anfang's core. Every once in a while the group locks into simple rhythmic folk jams with buzzing guitar and insistent propulsive percussion, but it always seems to dissipate into blissed out clouds of drone and clatter, but the drums and shakers never waver, always there, often in the foreground but just as often lurking mysteriously below the surface. Side two is a much rockier proposition, the band falling into some almost groovy krautrock territory, heavy fuzz bass unfurling a propulsive riff, beneath warbly seasick guitar and tons of swirly lo-fi fuzz. The disc winds down with a bit of traditional folkiness, almost like a jig, but looped into a repetitive groove, mesmerizing and hypnotic, buzzy and almost raga like, and like the rest of the record, beautiful, haunting and creepy.

Time to introduce you to one of my favorite bands out there. Silvester Anfang's music is hard to describe. Best thing to get into their stuff is to lay down in bed when it's dark, play the tunes on a decent volume and sink completely into this weird, sick and so great atmosphere this collective provides. If you don't know them yet grab it, maybe I'll put more from them on.