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Friday, March 3rd 2006, 10:00pm
Friday, March 3rd 2006, 10:41pm
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Original von Rationalmind
Hey Covenant boys and gals!!! Where are you all gone? Are you listening to IT, or did IT make you all disappear? Today is - THE HOLLY 3RD OF MARCH - this is the launch of SKYSHAPER - there is no one on the forum, so it seems to me all Covenant folks got sucked up by some sort of dark supernatural force... Last messages I read here were about opening an absolutely black box. Then a WOW. And then SILENCE...
For the sake of this universe, those who were chosen to get IT - what do you damn think of IT?
Saturday, March 4th 2006, 12:51pm
Original von MarishkaSkyshaper is the first CD of Covenant where I love ALL songs! From the beginning to the end it's the greatest CD I ever heard!
Saturday, March 4th 2006, 1:07pm
Saturday, March 4th 2006, 4:10pm
Original von Niggels
The best CD you ever heard?? Wow. You should go and buy all the other Covenant albums then!
Just joking! I'm happy that there are people who fall in love with this album immediately!
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Saturday, March 4th 2006, 7:45pm
Somewhere on the bottom of the diamond, hidden away from any direct touch of light there is another kind of facet to be discovered here, that glares dark and clear, The World Is Growing Loud, this one spreads a heavy black and grey reflections that can not be overseen by anyone, but may take decades for some to compehend their message. In fact, this piece of art is so powerful, that if you love the artist (as I do) this is where the voodoo of this album reaches its climax. End.
Saturday, March 4th 2006, 8:12pm
Original von Rationalmind
Thank you Marishka!I am totally skyshaped.
Sunday, March 5th 2006, 1:48am
Originally posted by Rationalmind
I finally got to hear that gem, a couple of times today and well, I do adore it. At the same time, I sort of understand why some people find it hard to digest. To me, as a whole, this album sounds as a raw diamond under the sun. There are facetes to be found here which are cut deep and with incredible, irreversible determination,
Sunday, March 5th 2006, 11:19am
Originally posted by erichazannSorry to be the party pooper, but I feel the need to point out, raw diamonds look like ordinary rocks. They are not brilliant gems until they are cut. They also, do not conduct electricity.
This is a very powerful metaphor tho. Diamonds have the highest symmetry -isometric- so they have the most complicated internal structure. No diamond is perfect (except one lab created), but a cutter will make them appear perfect by eliminating the imperfections. And I would say that the World is Growing Loud is this diamond's imperfection... not because it's inheirently bad, but because it represents the end of something we know to be good. It could be a color imperfection -- a dark spot, reflecting the diamonds true Carbon nature, that a cutter would have cut away, but that Covenant (the cutters of this stone) have included.. perhaps to show us a diamond isn't forever. (It's not the stable form of carbon.. graphite is. All diamonds that aren't buried deep in the Earth, are *very* slowly transforming into graphite! Very. Slowly.)
What you say about facets and light is true tho.. (well true as any metaphor can be). Diamonds have both brilliance and fire, and they are different characteristics. Brilliance is the reflection of white light, while fire is the dispersion of the light into colored beams. The facets bounce the light back to us.
I don't mean to discredit your experience... I'm just being the scientist -- the geologist, I was trained to be...
I happen to be a chemical engineer myself, with some 16 years of working experience (Dow Chemical - heard of it?), so you are very welcome, let`s have a rational discussion on the Diamond - Skyshaper matter that I brought here and am ready to defend. What I meant with the whole allegory is rather difficult to put it in writing here (I mean, I am too lazy to do it ) is that - Skyshaper - to me, is just as what a raw diamond will be to a precious stone expert, I look at it under my magnifying glass and see facetes that are not quite there yet, but in my expert mind I see (hear) them clearly - shining, reflecting, striking my human senses with incredible multivalent power and unspoken natural beauty. I see (hear) them hitting my eyes (ears) with millions of reflections and my imagination grows and evolves around what I am holding under my magnifying glass and the absolute beauty that blasts waves of adrenaline in my mind. There is much, much more behind the glare, it just invites you to open your senses and to comprehend it. I think, I will put an end here I only hope you enjoy this album as much as I do...
Monday, March 6th 2006, 5:21pm
Subterfuge For 3 Absynths... Let us know what do you think, once you hear that. Rewinding does not count!
This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "Hilarius" (Mar 6th 2006, 5:29pm)
Monday, March 6th 2006, 5:36pm
Originally posted by Hilarius about 'relief': fascinating... it offers an interesting look of how covenant try all kind of ideas before completing a track...
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