NAD SYLVAN – Spiritus Mundi [Digipak +2] (2021)
“Spiritus Mundi” is the title of NAD SYLVAN‘s new album, a quite unique musician who has worked with Steve Hackett and has recorded a series of fantastic solo albums. This Sylvan’s latest work is filled with musical interpretations of the poetry of William Butler Yeats, possibly the foremost Irish literary figure of the 20th century.
Nad is joined by some famous musicians on this album, namely Tony Levin and Jonas Reingold on bass and Marko DeMaio (The Flower Kings) on drums with Steve Hackett also featuring. The bulk of the lyrics are taken verbatim from Yeats’s poems, apart from the first bonus track, You Have Got To Find A Way, that has Sylvan’s own lyrics.
This approach has left the music room to breath and allows the beauty of the words to shine through clearly with the music clearly supporting and enhancing the impact of the words. It’s progressive music with attention to detail, as it used to be in the golden days of the genre…