Birds of Passage: “Away with the Night”.

January 17, 2012, 0 comments

Already released on CD and LP in December, Bathetic has now stepped up to give Birds of Passage‘s magical Winter Lady the cassette treatment. The sophomore album by New Zealand native Alicia Merz is a quiet masterpiece of minimalistic, indeed very wintry and otherworldly musings that are carried by Merz’s eerie, reverberated voice, sparsely accompanied by piano and cello, almost indiscernible field recordings and slow, cold drones, evoking images of snow-covered landscapes that are undoubtedly beautiful but leave a feeling of loneliness and loss.

Winter Lady is out now on cassette via Bathetic and still available on CD and LP via Denovali.

Birds of Passage – Away with the Night

By Henning