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Critical times can and must be crucial for transformation, shaping new identities out of facing crisis and the unexpected. This is the soil that nurtured the birth of Italian darkwave/post-punk/world music act Ostara’s Bless. Paolo Messere, known for his mammoth work as Blessed Child Opera, with more than 10 years and 10 albums under this name, found himself stuck during the self-isolation months in his stunning Art Seahorse House, a white villa surrounded by a huge garden full of cactus, bougainvillaeas and palm trees, with a recording studio at its core, and the Sicilian sea a few steps away.
In the void of human contacts, the harsh, extreme, vivid Mediterranean nature became the source of inspiration for songwriting still dark and tortured, but also newly and firmly centred in a place at the crosspoint between Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The sunsets of the Stagnone near Marsala, the fascination of the salt pans and the absurd games of colours at the horizon brought in the consciousness and the spell of being in the most African place in Europe.
Masculine/Feminine is the first of two double albums, all due out in 2022, that collect and organise the sheer volume of new compositions that Paolo Messere started to fix in March 2020, following first some sketches from his previous life in Syracuse, but soon flowing with an endless thread of new ideas and sounds. There was plenty of time and a world in standstill and uncertainty outside, and the need to fight demons through recordings.
Masculine/Feminine will be released via Seahorse Recordings on the 14th of January 2022. The single "Fear Of The Neglect" is the first introduction: its nervous, almost menacing sound, the lyrics about wanting to grasp something - a love - when one knows it’s lost already, the arabian sounding chorus and the sudden light in the finale perfectly summon the process and themes behind Ostara’s Bless existence. Listen to Ostara’s Bless' "Fear Of The Neglect" below. Link
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