= Review II =

The opera-singer-come-cantor, multi-instrumentalist, electro legend, and irony grandmistress, is back with yet another record, which, as always, goes beyond anything she has masterminded before. 

This is the second review by yours truly, because with artists whose sound you've grown accustomed to, the most painful thing is not in their demise as a sell-out, which, she, born in the genuine and calm inner storm sign of the watermouse, has managed to escape, but rather in an artists rebirth, in making something completely new from the tunes you have have learned to love and hate, just like passion which is the heart itself of the matter, in her rich discography, spanning since the nullties or even earlier, if you are a big fan or follower of Electronic, Soul and/or Christian music.

After a slow start, the record picks up pace with the IDM:ish "How can I get it back", and then with the dark progressive trance track "Dance with me" which features a very heavy beat, and her voice really excels in it as well. 

Following that, we get a magical journey through the greys world with a cosmic choir too. As always, there is an inherent darkness to her music, but a lot of beauty as well, both in the originality and genuinity of the instrumentation, melodies, and various synths and effect modules, and also her voice which, as always, closes in on madonnas recordings throughout the ages - when will she get beyond her? 

In the beatles-pastisched song-title "Give love a chance" we finally get harmonies on her voice, with both her "dig down deep" singing and an ethereality which could rival Hecates avatar in deep space. 

The artist could still work on the album art more, she seems stuck in the early 2000's of vapourwave. Instead a 3d render Deep Fake of her ex-husband would have been a treat, with a red/cyan 3d effect on top. The rest of the album does sound good overall, and there is a lot to discover. Personally I recommend more than one listen to get into the groove, before deciding if it's Bu or Bä. 

The record "Love is Misery" by Idamo is LIVE on all major streaming platforms.

= INTRODUCTION =

For a long time I believed the meaning of life was in 3 words, while the bible says it's only one. At the moment, I've decided to find as many people's as possible truth in only 2. It might make it into a song, which most surely should be included on the La Belle Epoque 24-concept album epic. Anyway, citations I've collected so far, are as follows:
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Rätt & Vist
Rött & Svart
Love & Misery
Trauma & Längtan
Passion & Isolation
Professionell & Slarvig
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= REVIEW =
The first album by this musician that the reviewer found was a recording in a church. It can be difficult many times to see the true meaning behind a person; our thoughts turn ½-dimensional. Either love 'em or hate 'em, or any other emotional state or thought-process in-between, for that matter. Even the things that we don't have a name for.. maybe those are the most holy?!

The plutchik-wheel's center-emotion might be that of transcendence, what in Swedish is referred to as "att upplösas i atomer" (lit. ''to dissolve into atoms''), to use one synonym for it. But we now know, at least in our hearts, that there's something beyond that, thanks to the research popularized by the late Stephen Hawking - that.. at some point, our state-of-mind turns into a 111-person-strong ensemble, what is more commonly referred to these days as the superstring theory. 

Or maybe, we just need to be down-to-earth; in Hermann Hesse's fictional novel ''Siddhartha'', xe postulates that the true meaning of life might be in only 2 words as well: hard work; just that, nothing more, nothing less. Working with humans - because you never know how a human will react to you, and you're supposed to do your job, or you're sacked. To delve further into this thinking, on the ''Prophecy'' album, the hindu pioneers '''Nitin Sawhney'' sample a voice which utters the statement ''we should learn to be civilized people''; no matter how dead, buried, rotten, decayed & foul-smelling god is, maybe christ conciousness is something to strive for, after all.

Onwards to the Music: xis voice varies from Leonard-Cohen:ish talk-singing, to some sort of evil doll, while apexing at what reminisces of Madonna's ''Don't cry for me Argentina''. The album was played live by the musician xiself (with further lyrics by the lucky one, whose xis last name since many years back is adorned with), as always - if it's not the right atmosphere, why bother? The writer can hear around 4 harmonies in the musical parts, whilst the vocals are single-channel. One thought that comes to mind is.. maybe it's time for the multi-instrumentalist to invest in a Jimi Hendrix:ian loop pedal - and ballet lessons, ala Theresia Andersson?

The harmonies do indeed harmonize, while lending influences from even Trap. In one eZine it was postulated that this genre really was called ''crap'' in the beginning, a short-form of ''Cloud Rap''; but it might have much older beginnings than that. '''Bones'''' underground masterpiece "Dirt" reminisces of the late 70's and early 80's, and what the genre really stems from is.. undertakers - its true meaning is "Cemetery-Rap". Or maybe it's from both the White and the Black community; one story fortold of how Rock N' Roll came to be, is that '''Chuck Berry''' played in closed public gatherings - where, sometimes.. the audience was mostly black - so he played his blues repertoire. When the listeners were by and large white, he played Country & Western, but when it was a mixed crowd, he intertwined the two styles, thus popularizing, what was then, and earlier called - ''Rhythm & Blues'', which is nowadays refered to as just ''Rock''; and nowadays the word ''music'' has been almost replaced with ''rock'' by journalists, which might've been its original meaning.

The secrets of the Nordic ''runes'' are to these days still delved in intense mystery. Although it's been a long time since they were added to Unicode, one has to delve further into fonts installed on one's system to find them at all. One columnist in a Swedish newspaper rallied some years ago, about how in the middle passage between Finland and Sweden, people got medborgarlön (lit. ''citizen-pay'', see Stalin's Sovjet, Cuba to this day, for example) for making shaman-shields - which.. ''serve no purpose at all''; if only xe knew. They might've made The Wiccans a memory, but the memory to this day still remains, and will walk the earth again, just like the last egyptian mummy which hasn't been frozen down does. Lastly, witch-house influences aren't heard much on this record, if, at all - another thing to invest in for the artist would be a bass-amplifier, hook it up to one of your  synthesizers, and you get that particular distortion, like a further evolution of '''Kyuss''' ''Desert Sound''. See for example Murk's (from the Ghost Dragons label) '''Light Sadness''' EP.

I'll end this with a citation from my favorite author:

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"Even the most acute judges of the witches - and even the witches themselves.. were convinced of the [[guilt of witchery]], the guilt none-the-less was found to be non-existant; it is thus with all guilt."

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= FOOTNOTE =

Country & Western comes from the whole musical treasure that was once Indo-Europa. Equal parts British, Italian, Swedish, and Rromanian, for example. Precisely the word ''western'' derives from a short-form of ''spaghetti-western''. When italian immigrants came to America many moons ago, they were called spaghetti-eaters; while the rest of the white population filled their plates with potatoes, The Romans held strongly onto their traditions. One could imagine that young italians called their bullies ''potato-heads'' instead. The slur was later shortened to simply ''spic''. See U.D.'s definition of ''Fuck'' on the Waybackmachine, for further information. The institutional racism might've been saved to this day in the Dictionary-huggers' footnote ''(sic)'' - which officially means ''spelling intact''.

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