God Is God are a Berlin based duo of Etkin Cetkin the Turkish founder of the Kinship label and Galina Ozeran a Belarussian multi-instrumentalist and singer. The album is mainly improvised pieces that cross the many borders between Turkey, Germany and Belarussia.
The album opens with the ambient tonal droning intro of Behind the Heroes with whispered vocals and almost the sound of a ships horn at the end.
The Song Part 1 has a deep pulsing bassline with sparse percussion that slowly builds as some strings come in and out to color the music of this instrumental.
Liquid Space starts out like a mutating drum circle piece that's been speeded up to make parts of the drumming sound like birdsong, by the time Galina's vocals come in like the sighs and groans coming from a tryst I was floating away nicely.
The Song Part 2 starts speculatively before the bassline comes in to start lifting this towards a more spectral plain with Galina's richly tonal vocals being as much in the vein of Michaela Nemcova or the Russian singer Linda (not sure if her name when translated should be Lynda or Linda).
Masha-Marie is a slow tonal piece that feels rather elegiac and would fit for the sounds of walking through a forest at dusk, or just to sit back chill out and get very stoned indeed too.
Metamophoses comes in two parts the first of which is bright and upbeat synths and computer games noises with deep dark vocals as a counterpoint and as the song evolves a sense of dread and foreboding of what's to come. Or maybe just telling some of the stories of the history of the shifting sands and borders of the lands of there births. The second part sounds darker and danker as almost morse code messages fly across the speakers as the experiential noises give way to a sort of bleak beauty.
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Drops sounds like the water is slowly dripping onto a metal plate as the tones in the background build slowly. Dream is rather spatial and floaty like you are slowly drifting across a lake.
The album closes with Song To The Siren and this version takes its cues from This Mortal Coil's version and has delicious whispered vocals weaving in and out of the dreamscape backing with the main tune not arriving till close to the first chorus, by not being a slavish cover in anyway it brings a new feel to a very familiar and much covered classic so in God Is God's hand this is as much a song for the Russalka as it is the Siren.
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