A Sweeping Curve of Sound

Heathen Harvest’s new issue features an interview with darkwave band Hexperos, a band featured several times on my A Darker Shade of Pagan podcast.

“The world of dreams and the world of women. Each song of ‘The garden of the Hesperides’ is sung by one of these nymphs (who are inspiring muses for me) and the album talks about various women. For example the song entitled ‘Artemisia’ is dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi, a great and mysterious female painter, who lived in the ‘600 and whose style belongs to Caravaggio school. ‘Nana’ is a song from the ‘Siete canciones populares Españolas’ by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, it is a sad ‘cante jondo’, a lullaby. Each song represents a different aspect of the feminine world, so it is for ‘Ave Maria’ by the baroque composer Giulio Caccini, for ‘The Magnificence of the Night’ whose lyric is an extract from the novel ‘Woman in love’ by D. H. Lawrence, for Hesperos. “

For my own review of Hexperos’ new album “The Garden of the Hesperides”, click here.