Lief Hall : Voices (self released, 2014)
When I reviewed the Myths CD earlier on Cadena Roselina , I started it writing about how hard it is for music to invoke the feeling of true horror that movies or books can accomplish so well . Now, at this very moment, I 'm trying to review the solo album by Lief Hall , one of the members of Myths ( now with a brand new solo career and based in Berlin) without using the same topic all over again , but it's pretty much impossible . This is probably the most haunting music I've heard in my life. On that article I stated that the familiar sound of musical instruments is what usually prevents music from creating the " fear of the unknown " that is needed to generate real sonic terror. I n these nine songs though, Lief Hall uses only her own voice , recorded mostly through samples ( and very few timbre-altering effects ), and manages to transform something as familiar and mundane as the human voice, into...