The best kept secret in Italy, even better kept than the fact that Silvio Berlusconi is actually a nice guy really, Father Murphy make it back to Berlin for a cosy Monday night at White Trash…and all for the princely sum of 3€. If this photo is anything to go by and treatment of musical instruments is equal to facial hair treeatment, your ears are in for a treat.
Listen up and if the live video below is anything to go by hopefully the burger scoffing masses will make space for the music fans to actually see something…yeah, I just can’t resist that one.
Think of Gnostic masses, kabbalistic chanting, chiming little bells, tinny Gregorian-like drones played on toy-keyboards and the subtle but inescapable influence of 70’s Italian horror rock acts like Jacula and soundtrack masters Goblin and Ennio Morricone, and you will have some of the ingredients that make Father Murphy’s music. Add a good deal of lunacy and enough humour to keep the gloom away (just because you cannot take yourself that seriously) and the album is here, in all its strangely beguiling simplicity: an uneasy, compelling, furiously heretic yet sandblasted in Catholicism little album that could
come only out of Italy.”
