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o r d o r o s a r i u s e q u i l i b r i o Release Music Magazine, October 2000 |
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Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio are the continuation of Ordo Equilibrio, but without female vocalist Chelsea Krook. The music gives you a feeling of the apocalypse and I simply state that this is apocalyptic neofolk. The album contains seven tracks as well as an outro and an intro. Six of the seven real songs are good or even great! One favourite is "Ashen Like Love, and Black Like the Snow" with march drums and sampled folk masses, sending shivers down mine spine because of the power. This song also has the good vocals, strings and acoustic guitars, typical for most songs featured on the album. Another great one is "Flowers and Moonshine in My Garden of Eden". It has very appealing melodies and dull drums, all implicating ruin and misery. If there's something to complain about, it's the lyrics. I get the feeling that these lyrics have been written with a Swedish-English lexicon very close at hand. It seems as if Tomas Pettersson has used many unusual words he knows - or maybe doesn't know? Although, at times they're beautiful although pretentious. Well, never mind that since this is a cool album which you should own! JOHAN ASTEMARK |
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Recycle your Ears, November 2000 |
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Several years have passed since the release of "Conquest, Love and self-perseverance", the third album of Ordo Equilibrio. Since that time, Thomas Petterrson has ceased his collaboration with former female singer Chelsea, has added a "Rosarius" to the name of the band, but has also written 9 new songs, finally released on this highly expected "Make love, and war" Ordo Equilibrio has become over the year one of the most acclaimed band from the Cold Meat Industry stall, and this new album demonstrates that the project deserves this position. "Make love, and war" is, once again, a pearl made of very efficient music supporting strong lyrics. Thomas Petterrson write real songs, which carry strong emotions: pride, desire, scorn, lust... The basic concepts treated here are more or less the same than on the previous album: love and unrestrained sex, self-confidence, balance and change. Music-wise, this albums seems to rely more on samples than before. My two favorites pieces of the CD, "Hunting for the black september" and "Liebe Utopia, on weaves of silken carnages" feature backgrounds made of repetitive orchestral loops. Other tracks, like "Flowers and moonshine in my garden of Eden" are definitely more dark folk oriented, with prominent accoustic guitar. It can be said that with this new CD, all remains of Thomas's past activities in Archon Satani have disappeared from his music. The slow instrumetal pieces that were still present on the first two Ordo Equilibrio records don't appear on this one. Thomas's singing has also evolved, with more experimentations and melodies in place of his usually colder vocals (for example on "Make love, and war" or "Never before at the beauty of spring"). Moreover, he's almost alone at the mic, his new female partner's appearance being far more in the background than what Chelsea was doing. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio is a very special project. There's no similar band, either in the Cold Meat Industry family or anywhere else. Here are real songs, strong and very personnal lyrics, and always a highly evocative music. Thomas proves here that the years of waiting were worth their outcome, and delivers us here a masterpiece of its own kind. |
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This is a new beginning which had brought us previously an end some moths ago with the departure of Chelsea. The new album of now Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio is really full of excellent songs, and I am sorry to tell that I do not miss the girl voices since I watch the performance in Athens one year ago. This album is as I expected, excellent and brilliant, full of perfectly finished compositions in an everyday more own style. My favourite numbers are the second, "Ashen Like Love, And Black like The Snow", with an orchestral folk style of pounding percussions and brilliant strong melodies, and also number three, called "Passing Eyes In Mimer's Well", with the parsimony of voices reciting and repetitive sound constructions. But to be sincere most of the songs included are of high consideration. "Hunting For The Black September" are also one of the best, with its slow procession of drumming and synth melodies and, do not forget, the permanent beauty of Tomas reciting. From the typical Ordo Equilibrio sound we can find "Flowers And Moonshine In My Garden Of Eden" where, once more, very beautiful melodies are offered strengthened by the drums, while in songs like "Liebe Utopia / On The Beauty Of Spring" a martial and apocalyptic sound makes its more brilliant appearance. The song title is some kind of industrial lullaby (?), with an almost happy chant. "Never Before At The Beauty Of Spring" is a gentle song full of nice smells and colours, very near the usual O.E. folk sound but with a very delicate touch. Of course I will not forget the intro and the end of the album, the former is a "fetish sexy martial" piece while the latter lead us to an infant song with dark and dangerous surroundings... Excellent album released today, October Friday the 13th of the year 2.000 e.v., exactly where SDC have made a new project become true. F. Paco González |
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