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The second full-length studio album in the group's twenty-year history,
Born Again signals startling developments and a radical maturation. Old
vines have been cut back and carefully tended in order to bear strange
new fruit. Over the course of the twelve tracks that comprise Born
Again, Blood Axis explores an epic yet human universe in which gods are
summoned, kingdoms rise, riddles are unlocked, love is lost, and worlds
crumble. This is psychedelia in the literal sense: a "mind-manifesting"
journey through the collective psyche of its creators. Born Again weaves
a web of potent pleasures. Whereas the earliest Blood Axis music was
marked by keyboards and samples, Blood Axis in 2010 is stripped down to
an essential core of natural instrumentation, but with force and bombast
fully intact. The sonic ingredients on Born Again include electric and
acoustic strings (guitar, violin, bass, bouzouki, banjo), melodeon,
piano, highland bagpipes and Galician gaita, marching percussion, the
mysterious Annabel-a-tron, and Bobby BeauSoleil's growling,
prison-vintage guitar eruptions circa 1976. Underpinning the album and
propelling much of the music is the traditional Irish drum the bodhrán,
recorded here with unprecedented power. Moynihan's ominous voice is well
matched by Annabel Lee's elfin intonations, just as her violin finds a
perfect counterpoint in Robert Ferbrache's protean guitar parts. A
selective cabal of guest musicians from Europe and the USA add tasteful
embellishments to these deceptively simple arrangements. Shot through by
myth and romance, the expressive lyrics on Born Again have their roots
in ancient and modern poetry, archaic invocations, and tragic laments.
Alongside modern English and German, songs are sung in medieval
10th-century Old English and 13th-century Middle High German. The end
result is both unclassifiable and unforgettable: neither folk nor rock,
traditional nor avant-garde, modern nor archaic. It is simply Blood
Axis. Born Again was recorded over a span of many years in remote
locations ranging from rural Vermont to the catacombs of Absinthe
Studios in Denver, Colorado. Engineered and produced by founding Blood
Axis member Ferbrache, the dense sonic tapestry of Born Again is
simultaneously raw and refined, synergistically more than the sum of its
primal parts. Packaged in a beautiful gatefold cover, Born Again
includes a 24-page booklet with complete lyrics and translations,
striking portraits of the band members, and solemn photographic images
from France, Germany, Austria, Portugal, and the USA. To everything
there is season. For those who are cursed, a time to die and to be
forgotten. And for the blessed, a time to be born again: to live on,
beyond death, in the minds of men. Now is the time for Blood Axis to be
Born Again. The vinyl comes in a deluxe & stunning special printed
3panel foldoutcover with 12 page booklet
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