It is fascinating to review these short musical chapters that make up the story of The Hermit, Georg Bendemann‘s forthcoming album. They feel less like songs in the traditional sense and more like a series of sonic trailers, like the teasers for a yet-to-be-released movie.
If last time, we caught up with our protagonist looking into the depths of a forest well, agonizing and searching for meaning from within as he contemplated his own reflection, “Revenge” takes us back to the story’s start. Here, over simple and song-serving rhythmic chords, we learn how the story begins, the incident that sets the rest of the narrative in motion, the single, life-changing act that sets Job off on his quest for satisfaction, justice….”Revenge.”
Like all excerpts from such a song cycle, the individual sonic missives mean less when taken on their own, like reading one chapter of a book randomly and hoping to understand the story; far better to hear them in context. But as intriguing fragments of an epic tale, they certainly make you want to know more. And that is precisely the point of a single, is it not?
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