Aurora - Land of Harm and Apple Trees (CD)

Take Gaelic chants infused with the sound track of a medieval village, stir in some techno and a little industrial and just a smidgen of "eye of new wave" and you have brewed up what is The Land of Harm and Apple Trees. The female vocals are haunting. The male vocals, though not as prolific throughout the album, intrude into a song like a dark specter creeping into your thoughts. This is music for an overcast autumn day and it will definitely transform you to another place in time and space. And it won't be the ethereal, sun dappled planes of Enya or Yanni. Oh no, my friend, you will find yourselves in someplace stark and haunting, at twilight. Some place you find foreboding, but instantly intriguing and devilishly seductive.