Anticipated one year ago by the CDr single "Horus Calling" (song which opens this new album), five years after "The Teacher And The Man Of Lie", The Green Man release their new album "Musick Without Tears". The new album, as usual for the Italian duo formed by Marco Garegnani and Eliahu Giudice (here helped out by Chiara Alice Lorenzini on additional vocals plus different guests of which I'll write later), has the lyrics that are as important as the music. Their performances always gave me the idea to be a sort of musical reading. You know, a sort of modern version of what beat poets did back in the 50s/60s: poetry readings with music improvisation. In the case of The Green Man we have a mix of lyrics inspired by the lives of Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant (he died the last year and headed the magical order previously known as the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis which is now referred to as the Typhonian Order) with music parts that remember me Velvet Underground on some tracks ("Blindness Is Bliss", "In The Desert Chaos Loved Me With A Knife", "(Sweet) Candy) or British folk-rock bands of the 70s on others ("Horus Calling", "Cefalù - Song For Raoul", "At Stockholm", "Freedom Is A Two Edged Sword", "67-69 Chancery Lane") with some exceptions like "Chat Blanc" which mix jazzy atmospheres to krautrock synth noises and "Tetelesthai", a dark tune based on hypnotic melodic piano loops which slowly turns into an infernal soundtrack based on violin, metal noises and echoes, after a couple of minutes of silence. About the guests, we have Patrick Leagas on backing vocals, keyboards and samples on "Blindness Is Bliss". Carlo Gilardi on trumpet and Geneviève Pasquier on vocals on "Chat Blanc". Francesca Crotti on violin on "Freedom Is A Two Edged Sword". Last but not least, Gianluca Beccuzzi's noises and samples have been used on different tracks but there isn't written which they are.