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Artist: Pavla Mikulasova
Title: Mirror
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 7th December 2012
Label: Decadance Records


Album Review

Ah, those girls with beautiful voices! They will charm us all the time, like sirens calling the listener into the darkest depths of the sea. Pavla Mikulasova, who is originally from Czech Republic, is another brilliant on the dark scene. Her amazing crystal tinkling vocals leave you no chance to stay in this reality, they throw you right into the most beautiful and clearest fantasies you have. Immediately you remember mother’s voice, reading you fairy-tales (btw. Pavla also uses fairy-tales motifs in her lyrics) as you were a kid, and could any other memories be more sweet and calming than those ones.

Unfortunately, this is everything good what is possible to say about the album ‘Mirror’. Of course, it isn’t little, to have such a great potential is a big deal. But any brilliance needs its frame. In case of Pavla, she chose too tight frame for her. She puts herself into dark scene limits. Although she fits to the scene well enough, but anyway, she’s too big for this, she needs more air. On the one hand minimal arrangements (which sound poor even is there are piano and strings) give her some space. On the other hand the contrast between her rich voice and this kind of music is so high, that she becomes a hostage of her own melodies and can’t spread her wings in this musical cage.

She says, it took pretty long to find a right agency, because “her music never fits”. Well, it has reasons. It is sweet, that she tries to work alone, but as a great singer, she needs a very good lyricist and someone to work on the arrangements. Will her album ‘Mirror’ find its listener? Sure.  Good for her, there are a lot of fans of dark scene, who don’t have high demands to the music. Aside of them, lovers of female vocals should absolutely check this singer out; this album could be a nice hint for fans of L’AME IMMORTELLE, CONJURE ONE and DELERIUM as well.


Tracklist

01. Anonymous day
02. Black out
03. Desaparecidos
04. Grandmother
05. The little angels
06. Lullaby
07. Overdose
08. Sweet dreams
09. Sweet girl
10. The horses
11. The magic mirror
12. Timeless


Line-up

Pavla Mikulasova – voice & piano
Massimo bandiera – bass (on stage)


Website

http://www.pavlamikulasova.com / https://www.facebook.com/pavlamikulasova


Cover Picture

pavlamikulasova mirror


Rating

Music: 6
Sound: 8
Total: 7 / 10





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