Engelstaub is a german darkwave project, and the album Akashic Recordings was released in 2002. I listen to darkwave almost weekly, and I am kind of forced to since I often hang out in some gothic club. There are different styles of darkwave, the somewhat brain killing darkwave (beats that will give you a headache) and the more relaxing darkwave. We got a hold of the second style here with Engelstaub. Engelstaub creates an ambient atmosphere with this album, beautiful songs filled with a great variety of sounds and instruments. 'The Return' for example makes me think of a medival composition, with beautiful vocals. I normally hate female vocals in music, but this is something completely different and gives the music a more grown up image. Next to the female vocals there are male vocals as well, no screaming or repeating lines through the entire song, far from it. Pure singing in a melodical way backed up by the beautiful ambient music, taking you to another place where time doesn't exist...There is only one word to descripe this: beautiful. Track Listing: Kissed By God Hell On Earth Untitled Our Father Earth In Hell Alone Winter Marches On The Return My Last Step King Of Ice Mothers Of The Disappeared Lost Purity L´Apell De L´Ange Eden´s Rising Kingdom Of Blindness 1226 AD The Damned Don´t Cry Engelstaub is: Silke Hofmann - Vocals Janusz Zaremba - Vocals, Guitars Mark Hofmann - Vocals, Guitars, Samples, Programming