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Negative Face

Negative Face Radio

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  • Genre: Alternative / Metal / Rock

    Location Prague, CZ

    Profile Views: 13187

    Last Login: 12/16/2011

    Member Since 12/4/2007

    Website www.negativeface.com

    Record Label Elysion

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .............................................. ...... NEGATIVE FACE starts in 1995 with demo tape "In The Positive"... In 1997 they recorded demo CD "The Dance of the Mournful Clown"... In 2005 they produced first official album called "Stin". This album was nominated for Czech Gammy - "Andel 2005" and they were also nominated for Czech underground awards "Britva 2005" and they were won the debut of the eyar 2005... In 2007 they preparing new CD "The Garden of Wishes". This CD is now out (2009-2010) its a new dimension of crossover music! .... .. Reviews from Metalzone info - The Garden of Wishes.. .. Multi-genre, multi-instrumental, multi-personal. That is a brief description of Matěj Lipský’s music project called Negative Face. It is their second album “The Garden of Wishes” which I’m currently digesting after a several-hour listening session. To give an explanation of the introduction – Negative Face merge metal, jazz, ska, folk, grunge rock, crossover, hardcore, maybe even bits of punk or funky, maybe even something more. Besides the usual rock instruments, you can hear violin, ukulele, saxophone or darbuka. And why multi-personal? Well, there were more than twenty people involved in the recordings. The first name I’ll give is Matěj Lipský himself, who besides writing all music and lyrics, played the guitar and did the singing. Another important member is Maťo Mišík, who was responsible not only for production and arrangement, but also played the bass guitar, the guitar, keyboards and percussions. I definitely can’t forget Daniel Kroft (Latitude 77), who is the author of the rather long intro “Falling a Sleep”, actually consisting of six introduction parts, and who was co-producing the album. Now to the album itself. I don’t know exactly what words to use to give specific description of the concept album, so I’ll quote the author: “The Garden of Wishes tells a story, which brings us to a mysterious place, which no one entered before. A place of mystical encounter which can change your life. On the other hand, it can wake things that you might not like at all…” This is maybe not enough for you, therefore it might be better to dive under the surface and start listening. However, I recommend to devote enough time to the listening, because making pauses or skipping tracks will immediately break the continuity. Garden of Wishes is simply meant to be listened as a whole, otherwise you’ll miss a lot. .. The journey starts right away with the intro, which really brings around a feeling of places unknown. The Way, by its unusual combination of rock/metal and ska, triggers a positive mood, but as it’s coming closer to the – rather psychedelic - ending, you start to feel uncomfortable. It’s as if you were clinically dead and your mind was free to soar, but you are still curious, what’s next. The first tunes of “Woman” slowly unveil the unknown and you carefully look around. The feeling of insecure soon vanishes and you allow the melody to carry you forward, until it gradually changes into somewhat frisky “The Garden”. It is now when you realize that this is a different world. Usually, you’d find such a sudden change unacceptable, but in this strange dimension, it is absolutely alright and you carry on traveling, dreaming through “The Dream”, thumping through hardcore-like “Morning Star” and finally arriving to rock concert “Ego”, where you won’t feel that lonely as you have felt till now. When it’s over, a gentle jazz breeze swings you into a fresh night on the smile of “Her Face”. You feel relaxed, but your subconscious is expecting something fundamental to happen. Therefore you don’t stop and dance through light-hearted “Forever...”, sneak through tension-building “The Name” and properly torn-apart “The Tears”. It ends in an awakening and your soul is slowly leaving the beautiful world, quite unknown to you before. A radio someone turned on is speaking the voice of Lubomír Lipský, the great actor, and guided by his sweet sense of humor you enter the final “Zahrada Emocí”, where you try to understand what has just actually happened. To understand who or what you were supposed to meet. Yourself, your fate, your emotions or secret wishes. I went through all this after finishing “The Garden of Wishes”. But don’t make this a rule. These were just my personal feelings. Perhaps it was the author’s intention, to make everyone look deep into his own soul and discover something he was not aware of before. So he might be actually right when claiming that after listening to the CD, your life - or at least your approach to life – can change. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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    ..We are trying to express the contrast conception of the modern underground music and other styles. In our compositions mostly predominates death/doom metal roots which we cross with jazz, folk, esoteric and even classic music, but you can find there also country, grind core, grunge, punk or street rock fragments. How suecesfuly we manage to do so is up on our listeners to decide. Our style is unidentified and that,s why we have invented the expression for it the experimental positive music...

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