Die Stadt Music 
Fovea Hex : Neither Speak nor remain silent : three
"Allure" (EP) (IR/UK,2007)****'
“Neither speak nor remain silent.” Accidentilly today I was reminded of the thought that it is better not to mention the bad thoughts/remarks because they multiply with its slip of the tongue, because such thoughts are not requesting or recalling a fundamental moment or opportunity for real change. With a different potency, many of such rapidly conceived momentual thoughts can become silent too, when able to lay down with its random wind of circumstances. All moments which stimulated the negative thought could as much recall an awaiting character, who desires, as impatiently, its opposed stimulation.
On this part three of this series of dark beauties, voices of the pasts are remembered, just like the sea sound in shells, in its enclosed form of essence, even when it became absent of its original breathing inspiration.
This new album starts partly acoustic (zither,..), diging deeper into penetrating thoughts. It is sad-and-still-hopeful, sounding natural in its own cause-and-existence of things. The natural sounds make a connection with these thoughts, while all music and other expressions, linger on like a bed of harmony drones, on a human expression level recognisable, but which are at the same time also entirely abstract and transcendent, as an equal part of a thought environment, as well it is as embeded in a region of expression reaching for direct contact and recognition.
Clodagh Simonds plays zither, harmonium, made string arrangements, used her thoughts in voice, plays glass, piano, beds of shimmer, and made some bodhran treatments, cluster formations, backdrops. Additional help was provided on track 1 by Cora Venus Lunny on violin, John Contreras on cello, Laura Sheeran, voice and Steve Wilson on treated guitars and bass drones. On track 2 Robert Fripp plays guitar ; Donal Lunny : bodhran ; Michael Begg : piano treatments, provided sounds/implants and a specific train sound field recording. On the last concluding track Percy Jones plays subaquatic fretless bass, while Goeff Sample took care of the field recording of birds near lake.
This third CD is a beautiful dark conclusion, and is like a black closing curtain spreading its shadows over the last memories of some particular period/day before the silent night and inner peace finds its concluding and transforming balance.
