Entrance - Prayer of Death
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Artist: EntranceEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Tee Pee Records
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Music Review: "I Want to Die Rejoicing"
Rating: 5 Stars
Having discovered Tee Pee Records' website last year, I was already aware of the fatalistic, yet incredibly infectious blues-psychedelia that is Entrance's third full-length album when I finally bought the album a few days ago. Right from "Grim Reaper Blues," with it's white noise-esque intro and death-obsessed groove, I got sucked right into the nightmare, right down to the pit so to speak, and didn't emerge until the funeral-procession stomp of "Never Be Afraid" had died down. I came out sobered, taken back by the almost-tangible pervasion of death and dying, yet somehow also filled with that special kind of hope that one oftentimes gets out of blues music: a re-affirmation of life after being confronted with the quiet fate of death.
Musically, Entrance manages to conjur up a veritable passion play of life and all it's endings, experimenting both with 'down home' roots music and sun-stained psychedelia. On the first track, he cozies up to death personified, shouting "Twenty-four years old now, baby/And I don't mind dyin'" like a true-to-the-bone bluesman, and laying down some delicious guitar chords that might've been stolen from the ghost of Jack White.
The next song, "Silence of a Crowded Train", is anything but quiet. Erupting right away with more virtuoso guitar work, this time of the 'angry crunch' variety, Entrance takes us into and out of a myriad of nihlistic scenarios, with an absolutely mesmerizing violin keeping time behind him. Next, we're wisked off to the Orient with the instrumental "Requiem for Sandy Bull (R.I.P)" and it's lollicking sitar, only to re-awake to the violin strains of "Valium Blues".
Finally, the album hits its peak, both in tone and form, with "Pretty Baby"'s 'love lost' hints of necrophelia and "Prayer of Death"'s Kingdom-Come joy. Finally, we slide back to life with the epic "Lost in the Dark" and the aforementioned death-chants of "Never Be Afraid."
All in all, Entrance suceeds in more or less crafting a concept album about death, material that hearkens back to the Delta era of Charley Patton or Blind Lemon Jefferson without coming off as merely an homage. He manages to mould well-worn blues subject matter (death, lost love, fate) to suit his own creatic vision, simultaneously re-establishing their place in music and injecting them with new life.
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