Circuncelion
Carved In Waters
The Circuncelion project began with Igor Mesmer in spring of 2004, as a side project to his band Addiction, and in an attempt to distance himself from the more conventional instruments. The debut "Eschara" was a conceptual work based on his own impressions arising from a number of images and testimonies from the Spanish civil war, forming a work of 9 haunting instrumental arrangements full of passion and with a distinctive symphonic character. Circuncelions second album has been inspired by the romanticist and dreamer tendencies of the 19th century, and the liberalizing revolutionary excitement of the first half of the 20th century. From the opening song, "The Beginning", inspired in the homonymous poem by Dylan Thomas and with a string arrangement full of dramatism, through "Sontay" and "To never come back again", a tale about the deportation by see of Basque children to keep them away from the dangers of the Spanish civil war, and "Retrospective Room 1 & 2", of distinct impressionist character, to "Ondorio", a daunting requiem in Basque language - the climax and closure of this very strong album! "Carved in Waters" is one of the most intense and emotional albums I listened to in ages!