Br'er - Take Away From Me The Noise Of Your Songs

Reaching back for a sound, influence or feeling, adding energy cultivated by passion of the present, this is Take Away From Me The Noise Of Your Songs. With a plethora of skilled and impassioned musicians in this lineup, Benjamin Schurr as Br'er composes an intense album of beautiful pieces. The heaviness of the songwriting is perfectly matched by the music, a fierce scorching of love constrained by mortality, forceful rhythms rowing across the river Styx. Comparisons are double edged, there is so much more to Benjamin Schurr's compositions, one or two "it sounds like this" might not be appropriate to include. There is one band that comes to mind matching protracted dreadfulness, and this is Scratch Acid. But unlike these powerful clashing sounds of the late 80's, Take Away From Me The Noise Of Your Songs has many more avenues to travel. 

Beautiful voice reciting tenebrous passages to Dark Angels. Drums pound in some ceremonial testament, vibrating open the fabric separating incarnate from ethereal. The shimmering gateway opens as asked for in Fugue State, because living on in hospital is flickering life at best. There is both love and contempt for god within these tracks. The god Br'er associates with is elusive and selective, many times eliciting emotional frustration veraciously portrayed in both word and music. Then there is the god so often shoved down the throat, as penned in the track titled My Son. With nine tracks and more than a dozen artists working on this composition, the sounds are fully tendered for the listener. Balanced fervor, exquisite creativity, Take Away From Me The Noise Of Your Songs has more to offer than these words can relay.

Released on BLIGHT Records in an edition of fifty cassettes. This is a Philadelphia centric offering, with many of the artists hailing from this area. The digital sales/profits from the cassette are being donated to the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund. Cassette copies are currently available, and as usual, BLIGHT Records treats these with all the love.







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