Thy Veils

Billboard

"Romanian composer Thy Veils (aka Daniel Dorobantu) delivers an engaging selection of ethereal soundscapes, most of which are brief and succinct, evoking haunting moods with a mixture of electronics and environmental sources.
Luxurious electronic passages unfurl slowly, hanging in the air like a gathering fog and eventually parting to reveal substantial embellishment. Muffled percussives and insectoid rattlings punctuate the textural flow, often establishing an ominous mood wrought with anticipatory tension. Delicate keyboards add body to these atmospheric pastiches, injecting a touch of optimism to the melancholy. Cathedral bells produce a gothic flavor to some of the compositions, a taste that becomes more apparent with the sobering disposition of the keyboards and heavenly choral arrangements employed in these songs.
Classical undertones merge with ambient sensibilities, distributing a sedate majesty to these gloomy pieces. A taste of chamber music frequently can be sensed lurking in the enigmatic mix.
In all fairness, several other instruments appear throughout the tracks: oboe, guitar, flute, and more. These instances tend to nicely flesh out Veils' versatile keyboards, whether they be high-winded calliopes or murmuring church organs.
There is a fairly balanced mixture of angst and introspection exhibited by these compositions. The "depressions" referred to in the CD's title become a basic foundation of consciousness, from which point Veils explores a variety of emotional directions. Excursions into despairing depths are counterpointed by ambient surveys of the starry skies, as well as glimpses of dark wooded pursuits, forming a well-rounded series of empathic sonic states. Despite his predilection for gloom, Veils has hidden an angelic presence in these distraught compositions that hints at potentially inevitable solutions for earthly distress."
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