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| Biography | Discography |
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The mysterious, dark, and intellectual imagery dictated by the lyrical and musical intrigue is what really defines Demian Clav, a band from Nates, France. Founded in 2005 during the recording of Nightfall's Prayers, this is the Demian Clav trio. Between 1993 and 1998, D. Clav was the singer of a french dark-wave group called Evidence. Some of the tracks he wrote for Evidence appear on the first Demian Clav album, "Nightfall's Prayers," an album whose subject matter and music is influenced and inspired by thinkers, artists, and authors such as Kierkegaard, Hölderlin, Nerval, Arnulf Rainer, Bach, Tarkovski, Simone Weil, Warhol, Peter Hammill, Kerouac, Jean Luc Godard, and others.
Antonin Faurel bass | Demian Clav Vox/acoustic guitar/keyboards | Aurélien Chevalier Electric guitar |
BATS AND RED VELVET
"Classically inspired with lots of gothic ambience via the use of church organ sounds. Deeply mournful vocals dripping with tortured emotion set against pounding rhythms. They guide you through their nightmare underworld inhabited with deformed apparitions. Gripping."
CYCLONE
"Crossroads (Tormented progressive rock with Crimson and Pink Floyd conducted by R.Waters, industrial and dark rock, black lyrism like 4AD, Dead Can Dance,Cocteau Twins), the band propose a sturdy and full of interest music. You can follow it like one can follow the Slavs symphonies (Janice, Rimsky Korsakov), I mean in seeing images,in imagining plays."
VARIA
"These disconcerted pieces will with no doubt please those who like industrial music, but the baroque symphonic aspect are able to seduce the progressive rock fans who will certainly enjoy the singing and the Floyd-like reminiscences of the guitars."
ROCK STYLE
"This music seems almost indefinable, a kind of missing link between The Legendary Pink Dots and The Wall; as a long sad and melancolic river, which floods your ears with a delicious music. Let yourself be conquered by this group in our sclerosed musical world."
ELEGIA
"Excellent music from the group very influenced by Peter Hammill. Beautiful and haunting even if some of the mood hovers somewhere near Hammill “Over” (and that was brilliantly bleak) . From delicate introspections to full broading gothic and progressive music. Quite a find."
SISYPHUS
"I see myself far from your home..." where a ponderous and obscure climate is created by the keyboards and where the lyrics of the singing holds up all the song. "Slowly he returns to me..." looks like the overture of a theatrical work and "Is this my voice?" is also one of my favourite songs with its cordial and sedative violin as the voice. A group which is technically worthwhile, there is no doubt for its success."
ZIK ZINE
The tracks "I see myself far from your home..." and " I 'll still be standing..." offer a synthetic and magisterial music, as if The Legendary Pink Dots world meets the Cyberpunk hardness "The Eternal Afflict" and the grandiose theatrical of In the Nursery. "Slowly he returns to me..." and "The Bridegroom Christ" start with sadder and more melancholic compositions made nearer by a whispering voice but very in front. A progressive drift as Pink Floyd (The Wall period) or The Legendary Pink Dots (the song Hotel Noir). They seem to follow, in fact, this quest of divine oneself that express itself as our beloved groups; with a sound worthy of an extraordinary studio's work.
