the illusion of silence

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The Illusion Of Silence is a songwriter from Turin in Italy and his style could be described as dark-folk and neoclassical. But here we have to make an important distinction, since “Black Rainbow” is not one of the numerous neoclassical records where all the “classical” instrumentation is played by a computer with virtual instruments and in most cases badly arranged, without a real knowledge of how you should arrange a classical score. On the other hand, what we have here is music played by trained musicians with a classical formation, a real piano, real percussions, real accordion and keyboards, and notably a real string quartet. This is impressive if we consider that aside from some compilations and co-recordings with other bands this is the first full-length album released by this Italian project, but I believe that working in a professional way is always a good choice when you have the chance to do it, so I appreciate this kind of approach. TIOS has cooperated with Sunset Wings for a track on their 2014 album “Life As A Child At Play” and this gave him the opportunity to have some members of this band playing with him, most notably multi-instrumentalist Aleks Popov, singer Tatiana Korotkova and cellist Anna Ivanova who has also helped score the strings. The album has been recorded in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave on the Baltic sea, and this probably helped the cold, Nordic atmosphere of some tracks. The role of the strings is crucial and there are beautiful arrangement

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BLACK RAINBOW

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BRINK

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