All Heavens Rejoice (produced by the Noctivagant label) is an idiosyncratic, electronic album by an artist known as Sileni, aka Valter Abreu. His journey is pious in form, though in a subjugated way, tapping the virtues of duty, even though a probable, unpalatable outcome looms.
"Hung on the Cross" opens the musical experiment, which presents an industrial sound chamber in which a great symbol of purity is trampled. The track, therefore, symbolizes Christ on the cross in his fierce, final pangs, with Scorsese's controversial "Last Temptation" stitched throughout, though not without a brush of faith.
Alas, that faith might be hard to collect, as the tracks, "One Must Make a Sacrifice" and "A Boundless Favor" communicate, for they depict a devilish deal or at the very best and most, a lead-in to blanket one's moral compass. These are coarse and complex compositions for the preparatory pain they generate.
In the case of "A Mere Prejudice" (featuring Uzbazur) and "I Twice Witnessed My Funeral", the tonality reveals all the recycled bugs beneath one's dutiful rock, while "Let The Word Go Forth" and "The Hands of the Poet" (featuring Moloch Conspiracy) drill a desperate but necessary plunge: scribbled sacrifices to God (or perhaps, if one isn't careful, Satan), where wracked action forges the gloomy adventure ahead, but at what cost to one's soul?
For its inevitable reply, Sileni supplies "To the Illustrious Pole", where the notes scratch hard throughout one's venturesome expedition.
This icy feeling is carved further by the concluding "The World is Transfigured". It's much like "Logan's Run" toward the end of conniving Carousel, where one dares defy the odds with bold dreams and high prayers: a time to rejoice even as a certain demise descends.
Where one stands after Sileni's journey depends on one's strength of hope and fulfillment of obligations, and either or both can be tested at
https://noctivagantcollective.bandcamp.com/album/all-heavens-rejoice.
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