Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Folk/Folkrock | Heft: Jahrgang 2014, eclipsed Nr. 165 / 11-2014 | VÖ-Jahr: 2014 | Wertung: 7/10 | Label: Sireena | Autor: WS
Professor Moriarty was juxtaposed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with master detective Sherlock Holmes as an equal evil genius. Paul Roland, a British writer, journalist and musician, uses this figure as an opportunity to bundle unpublished photographs of his work. His music looks up to old heroes like Syd Barrett, Marc Bolan and the Kinks. In the lyrics one thinks of listening to poems by Edgar Allan Poes, quite Victorian age. "Re-Animator" is songwriter-folk-punk and like most tracks it features the violin of Veronique Rocka. Spiritual stories like "Cairo" dock to Steve Harley and Al Stewart. I Was A Teenage Zombie is getting more electrically aggressive. "Captain Nemo" is worn mainly by beguiling violins. There is a lot of gothic feeling up to B-Movie-Horror in songs like "Aleister Crowley", "Nosferatu", "Bates Hotel" or "Tortured By The Daughter Of Fu Manchu". The Kinks are honoured twice, among others with a funny cover of "Death Of A Clown". A beautiful folk/Sixties/Steampunk disc with wonderful violin arrangements.
Top track: I Dared The Devil
