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Song Of The Week - Silvester Anfang - Kosmies Slachtafval - "Konfituur voor de Satanjeugd" >> mp3

Belgium's Silvester Anfang provide an album edit for the Song of the Week, culled from the two lengthy album tracks "Mijn vader was een wolf en mijn moeder was een hoer" and "Konfituur voor de Satanjeugd". The edit distills the post-Krautrock essence of the free, noisy and damn heavy Kosmies Slachtafval CD on Aurora Borealis.

After numerous self-released tapes and CDRs on their own Funeral Folk imprint, the Silvester Anfang horde released the Satanische Vrede LP on the Flemmish K-raa-k label. The label has released some great underground artists from a variety of genres, favourites including Finland's ES and Ignatz. In fact, Ignatz has now joined the Funeral Folk clan as a regular performer in Silvester Anfang. The LP was followed recently by another vinyl only release on the acclaimed Eclipse label, "Echte Vlaamse Geiten". They have toured with Jack Rose, the noted American primitive guitarist, with whom they have also released a split 7 inch.

As such, the Kosmies Slachtafval album is the first official CD release. In some ways it's also one of their heavier releases, the clank and scree of the more free-folk elements one nicely juxtaposed with a driving, Krautrock-esque bass assault. Both tracks long and mesmerising journeys in their own right see guitars, bass, keys, flute and percussion combine with vocals to create a doomy funeral psych rich in the textures of ritual and worship. Silvester Anfang are actually pretty difficult to pin down - just as you think they are blissed-out drone-folk hippies, ominous clouds of oppressive atmosphere blot out the sun and you feel the cold grip of the minions of death. There is no accident in what they do, and that really comes across when you see them live. Overall, I can't recommend this band highly enough and urge you to seek out their releases...just don't stray from the path, there's something sinister at large in the Flemmish fields.