SHE SPREAD SORROW - 'Midori' 



CSR251CD (16 March 2018)
CD in 6-panel digipak
Barcode: 0641871745043



Midori is the third album by Italian artist She Spread Sorrow (Alice Kudalini). Midori tells a story, the escape from a harsh reality that becomes an echo of nightmares and visions, a house that is the scene of fear and anguish, a soul that is lost in pain to an epilogue of death and purification. The gloomy, intense, dreamlike sound, sometimes distorted, sometimes angelic is the soundtrack of a dramatic story, but also of relief. Duplicity is the key to this work. Death industrial with female vocals and ambient moments, more dilated, with sounds that also refer to a ritualistic horizon. Presented in a 6-panel digipak.

Track listing:

1. Escape (4:26)
2. Night One (5:05)
3. The House (8:21)
4. Who Are You, Midori? (6:17)
5. To The Light (6:45)
6. End Of Midori (9:22)

Reviews:

"It’s a tormenting experience accomplished with a brilliant harmony between the vocals and the harder industrial soundscape. I really think there also is something like a ‘female’ touch only women can create when composing their music. Alice Kundalini accomplished a harsh and yet delicate work filled with subtle arrangements... She Spread Sorrow has invented a very own style creating an artistic and styled industrial work. This album is without a shadow of a doubt the most accomplished one so far." (Side-Line Magazine 8.5/10)

"Midori is by far the most accomplished work by She Spread Sorrow and it is an album that will be on my mind for a long time to come. I’m still unsure of what Midori is in the context of this album, but if the sonic dread that Kudalini unleashes is any indication, I’m not sure I want to find out" (4/5, Musique Machine)

" sonically something is changed as, instead of a noise-oriented framework, there's a quiet but uncomfortable ambient background for the voice of Alice Kundalini... Multifaceted and full of movement... perhaps it will end [up] in some end of the year playlist. Truly recommended." (4/5, Chain D.L.K.)

“the new material is unnerving in a real-life manner. Alice Kundalini (She Spread Sorrow) has never shied away from ugliness, choosing to embrace it through whisper and fog. She moves unhindered through claustrophobic atmospheres and bludgeoning electronics, trailing blood and bruise yet never seeming victimized… The sorrow keeps spreading, seeping under the cracks in our winter windows, and yet we never think to seal the cracks; we’re too grateful for how it makes us feel. How dark, how dark.” (A Closer Listen)

"un ensemble aux noirceurs sinueuses et de grande fermeté ambiante. La dureté de cette musique réside en son minimalisme, et la force trouble de ses climats. Machinisme intimiste... Une part d’autobiographi : suggestion d’une intériorité, passé fantôme à décoder à travers ces mouvements en nappes, progressions inexorables" (Obskure Mag)

"Alice creëert voor haar personage een death industrial toneel dat haar gefluisterde en bij wijlen apathisch voorgedragen teksten alle eer aandoet... Ervaar zelf dat Midori onder je huid zal kruipen, en niet snel zal loslaten. Ben je dus op zoek naar een plaat die echt “diep gaat”, dan kan je je zoektocht bij deze staken. She Spreads dus niet alleen Sorrow, maar ook keer op keer enorm sterke platen!" (9/10, Dark Entries).

"La biellese Alice Lundalini è un nome davvero importante nell'attuale scena industriale elettronica europea... Con Midori, She Spread Sorrow ha perfezionato la sua peculiare elettronica a base di death industrial e ambient, Aggressiva ma crepuscolare, Kundalini dimostra che il power electronics può giocarsi su un piano sussurrato con non minore efficacia." (Rumore #317)

"Midori has taken the base template of earlier material and added a heavy dose of ritual dark ambient tonalities... building on what has come before, it is the strongest work yet from She Spread Sorrow, being an expertly crafted album which has an expanded sound palate and feels to have been created with a greater degree of compositional confidence" (Noise Receptor).

"...a conceptual release that deals almost exclusively with that fine line that separates nightmares from reality in those seconds after you awaken from a terrifying dream. I could easily imagine this being the soundtrack to the most chilling video ever made. I can't get enough of this one" (Zero Tolerance Magazine 089)

"Midori takes the listener through a winding corridor of dark soundscapes, crafted through a restrained use of electronics and Kudalini’s softly spoken vocals (almost whispered at times)... It’s very akin to a cinematic experience. Midori weaves a bleak and wicked web... by far the most accomplished work by She Spread Sorrow... an album that will be on my mind for a long time to come." (musiquemachine.com 4/5) "

She Spread Sorrow, oramai da eleggere come nome di punta del catalogo Cold Spring, Alice Kundalini non rinnega l'incontaminata autarchia che ha caratterizzato i precedenti capitoli ed in "Midori" immerge, attraverso i sei sussurrati pezzi della raccolta, in una dimensione narrativa segnatamente drammatica che inizie da una fuga sino a concludersi in un purificatorio sacrificio..."(Blow Up Magazine #241)

"Alice Kundalini ha sabido desarrollar una forma sonora particular e intimista dentro de la nueva plétora de formaciones femeninas que cultivan un estilo cercano a la experimentación industrial oscura, como es el caso de Puce Mary o Pharmakon... posiblemente sea el disco más intimista que She Spread Sorrow haya realizado hasta la fecha. Un elemento imprescindible dentro de la propuesta musical de esta fascinante artista italiana." (NOmelody)

"Fusionando death-industrial con matices power-electronics y pasajes sonoros dark-ambient y ritual... “Midori”, la talentosa creatividad musical de la artista italiana Alice Kudalini sigue revolucionando los pilares conceptuales que fundamentan la vanguardia sonora Death-Industrial en esta segunda década del siglo XXI." (Lux Atenea)

"Da non perdere il terzo album della compositrice italiana Alice Kudalini (a.k.a. SHE SPREAD SORROW). Tanto più perché le sue divagazioni ambient - death industrial, nel corso degli ultimi anni, hanno raggiunto un certo spessore qualitativo... claustrofobico, capace di trascinare l'ascoltatore con la sua scorrevole potenza attrattiva... riuscendo a conferire al risultato finale un senso di incredibile angoscia. L'artista piemontese non si muove su una sola strada per sviluppare creatività, ed è questa scelta che rende vincente la sua reputazione nel circuito musicale succitato." (Son of Flies webzine)

"Kundalini ha realizzato una formula che ha reso accessibili suoni ‘industriali’ altrimenti oscuri, spesso perfino ardui, caricandoli di significati ed emozioni rilevanti... Midori è ancora una volta incentrato su una storia non facile di dolore e riscatto... sonoro sconcertante, ma in qualche modo armonioso, un’altra tappa del percorso difficile ma indescrivibilmente interessante di She Spread Sorrow." (Ver Sacrum)

“…de 6 tracks op Midori [zijn] gekenmerkt door dezelfde spanningsbogen en soundscapes die we van Pharmakon en Puce Mary… Maar bij She Spread Sorrow is het allemaal volstrekt onderhuids en sluipend. Ze schreeuwt nooit, alles wordt gefluisterd… En dergelijke subtiele power electronics al fluisterend over het voetlicht te brengen is geen sinecure. Schreeuwen is namelijk leuk, maar ook wel erg gemakkelijk.” (Botho Straussian)