Nero Kane For The Love, The Death And The Poetry

'For the Love, the Death and the Poetry', the fourth studio album by Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist Nero Kane, is
a folk liturgy that oscillates between longings for eternal love, fascination with death and ghostly poetics. Psychedelic
mysticism (As an Angel's Voice), stripped down blues (My Pain Will Come Back to You), apocalyptic drones (Until the
Light of Heaven Comes), guitar arpeggios (Mountain of Sin), crepuscolar ballads (There Is No End), shamanic rites
(Unto Thee Oh Lord), solemn notes of organ and strings (Receive My Tears), cross gloomy stretches of skeletal
American deserts in a dilated, haunting ritual. Echoes of a romantic past (The World Heedless of our Pain), evoke the
eternal force of art and love in contrast to the ephemeral vanity of existence, in a redemptive journey through the
blinding and dark moorlands of good and evil (Land of Nothing).
The lead single 'As an Angel’s Voice' is accompanied by an experimental short film directed by Samantha Stella,
focusing on objects and symbols that have shaped Nero Kane's artistic journey. The musician describes the track with
these words: “A desert of the soul. The Love we were never given, a flutter of wings, the fall into the End. The Eternal.”
In the images, the dimensions of past and present reiterate an incessant circularity. Kane and Stella become
imprisoned souls in the gothic atmospheres that recall the overturning of life and death roles in Alejandro Amenábar's
film The Others. “As if Bela Tarr and Sergei Parajanov found themselves with Alejandro Jodorowsky in the American
desert,” Stella remarks.
Immediately distinguished with the California debut of his first album, over the years Nero Kane has built a unique and
personal style, described as cathartic, desert-like, pastoral, ritualistic and psychedelic, performing in dark folk, goth,
metal, experimental and pure songwriting contexts. His dark tinged vocals and guitars are accompanied by the
mellotron and vocals of longtime collaborator and multifaceted avant-garde artist Samantha Stella.