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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?
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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!
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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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Original von Rationalmind
Thank you Marishka! Yeah, Brighter Then The Sun indeed..., how did I happen to mix both, nevermind... I seems be looking a little too hard for hidden messages, conspiracies and stuff I am totally skyshaped.
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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,
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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...
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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)
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Originally posted by Hilarius about 'relief': fascinating... it offers an interesting look of how covenant try all kind of ideas before completing a track...