For this isn’t but a short (ten minutes of duration) two-tracker, I will not spent my un-wasteful time on a majestic biography. This single is a prequel to their upcoming full length, and then (meaning: when I have the opportunity to review the new album) I will be more kind to do so… Just this: Negura Bunget are one of my favourite acts from Romania. I do follow them since the very beginning and I can appreciate (almost) everything they did in the past. Within the Archive section you will surely find back the review I did for Maiestrit, posted on March 24th 2010.
The band is currently working on a trilogy, a concept about the Transylvanian history, divided in three parts (read: three albums), all to be released via Lupus Lounge. And as a teaser, this two-track EP might warm you up (or cool you down).
Gînd A-Prins opens with the track Curgerea Muntelui (5:27), which is an exclusive version taken from, or meant to be part of the first album out of three (which will be called Tau, by the way; hopefully to be released very soon). It starts very ominous and oppressive, with a bombastic introduction, based on ominous synth-parts and tribal percussion, followed after about eighty seconds by archaic wind-blow-instrumentation and shamanistic harmony chants. These spheres keep on for a while, and slowly transform into darker eras of aural paganism, with jazzy spasms and black-grinding injections at the very end. I know; it’s rather ‘mysterious’, this description, but so is this stuff!
The second track, Taul Fara Fund (4:33), will not appear on any of the upcoming albums, so it’s rather a gift, and a must for the fans. The bio uses the description of ‘Ambient and World Music’, but I would rather like to add definitions like ‘shamanistic’, ‘ritual’, ‘atmospheric’ and ‘tribal’ once again. It has nothing to do with ‘Metal’ at all, but it exhales a dark-spirited Transylvanian-folkloristic essence.
NOT recommended for the ‘average’ Metal-fan, but HIGHLY recommended if you’re a kind of open-minded, spi-ritual-istic Dark Aural Art adept… I for sure can not wait to welcome the upcoming trilogy!