Diversity, passion, originality in darkness could be easily attributed to Seventh Harmonic an english female band comin, gathering some performances here and there reserved but still developing its sounds.Their second full lenght album ' Promise of sacrifice ' is established into Dead Can Dance 's spirit, but also into some gothic standards or Prikosnovenie's ones - can think of Rajna's realms as for an example.

Caroline, Eilish, Kate - new member since 2001 as a dulcimer player and vocalist - and Fionna distil a mysterious, strange overwhelming liquor into their still…in some experimental musical laboratory… liquor made of various ingredients :
* a sprinkle of neoclassical tunes
* a pinch of ethnic sounds * from celtic to arabic or hinduist ones |
* some drops of intimate acoustic guitars, strenghtened by Eilish's melancholic violin
* some electronic loops flirting with trip-hop and ritualistic atmospheres, remembering Hagalaz Runedance's pagan horizons. This sensual and emotional liquor distilled into our veins a strange veil of serenity and anxiety in the same time…maybe cos of the ingenious work made on the vocals : most of the time ethereal, but also with gregorian chorus, frightening whispers and tibetan prayers.

So is the world of these graceful servants of Euterpe : one made of opposites, past troubled times opposed to modernity, sacred opposed to profane, synthetic opposed to classic...always shrouded by a sensuality in between, a communion of all senses, focusing on sweet obsessional dreams Besides, this enjoyful creativity - as a tapestry thought by four souls - has been enlightened by some precious artistic presences - Paul Nemeth from Cries of Tammuz and some members from Daemonia Nymphe. Promise of Sacrifice has to be listened - eyes closed in obscurity when maybe we can understand the meaning of such a title, with an open heart to touch the sky and feel the truthness of life made of chiaroscuros….