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Review: 'Father Murphy'
'Lamentations'   

-  Label: 'Backwards'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '20th November 2015'

Our Rating:
Father John Murphy’s reverence is deep and meditative in its nature. The two tracks here are almost other-worldly in their spiritual heights. With a dolorous trumpet backing Chiara Lee’s lost-child voice, the seven-minute ‘Mercy and Truth’ evokes subterranean pagan ritualism with sombre monastic overtones.

The throbbing ‘Lamentations’ is almost nine minutes in length, and inspires an almost trancelike state. The rising voices of Murphy and Lee, paired together in anguished exultation are powerful as instruments, articulations beyond words. And then the noise begins. It’s a guitar sound, but no guitar on earth should sound like this.

Describing its musical content in terms of simply how it sounds, or what it consists of, seems rather a futile exercise: this is music that moves the listener in a deeper sense, tapping into distant traces of past souls etched into the subconscious psyche and passed through generations. It’s dark and unsettling, but there’s something more here. This is music that resonates in ways that cannot be analysed critically or objectively. It goes beyond any kind of rationality or intellectualisation. Consequently, it’s impossible to hear this without being inexplicably moved.

Father Murphy Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Father Murphy - Lamentations