Tir – Awaiting The Dawn Review
Tir is a Dungeon Synth solo artist originally from Türkiye and now residing in Australia. On April 7th 2023, Tir released his latest studio album Awaiting The Dawn, which would gratify Empyrium fans. The album was released through Brilliant Emperor Records.
Tir, Awaiting The Dawn Review: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production.
The First Three Sins, The Summary
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features an instrumental environment of clean (warm & beautiful) acoustic strumming, violin, flute, and piano. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involve an instrumental vocal environment/atmosphere of clean tenor/choir singing/spoken words. The Third Sin, The Percussions: All drums and percussions are omitted.
The Fourth Sin, Overall Discussion
Immediately, the listener presses that play button, and one is welcomed to the opening piece, C’est La Fin (part 1), which welcomes the listener with a clean (warm and beautiful) acoustic strumming. Following suit with the sound of the flute and clean tenor/choir singing. Closing the piece with the sound of the wind and strumming of the acoustic…
One continues their journey with the second piece, Where Shadows Dance, and the remaining seven pieces. Where Tir delivers and provides an epic piece upon the listener’s ears, nine beautiful songs that only consist of acoustic guitar, choir singing/spoken words — simultaneously reaching the sixth piece “A Letter Hooked to the Cloud,” a sorrowful -yet emotional piece that consists of only a violin and the piano – “sinks the heart with sorrowful grey cloud feeling” and various sound FX which consists of thundering rainstorms. The sound of the wind bustling through the speakers, and the sound of nature capture different moods and atmospheres for each song, each song is well arranged and musically scored with perfection.
This brings the listener to the mixing and mastering of the album, which was done by Markus Stock (Empyrium and Sun Of The Sleepless). Although an unheard voice on the album, Markus’s engineering work on Awaiting The Dawn offers us, a deep kinship to the various expressions of Tir’smusical creators. The perfect equilibrium through which we can experience this fruit of art album.
Tir’s second album, Uld Skuld Verdandi (2019), had a significant impact on the scene around the world, already featuring elements that would seed Tir’s sound and mature into Awaiting The Dawn. Part of that album’s success arose from the collaboration with vocalist “Thomas Helm”, most noticeably known for his work with Empyrium and, more recently, Ortnit.
The album comes to an end with the last song, Farewell Balled. We want to give a shoutout to Tir for letting us review his album, Awaiting The Dawn. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia
Is that for us, the whole release and music, including the arrangements, and musical/instrumental composition/score is memorable for us. But what deepens the Awaiting The Dawn relationship and more of a memorable moment, is the hauntingly beautiful voice of Thomas Helm, sounding, more, like an embedded expression vocalist, rather than a guest vocalist.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork
The artwork is beautiful — like the music—simultaneously looking at the artwork, this is what the music feels and looks like!
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Tir and his album, Awaiting The Dawn.
The Hymns
01. C’est La Fin (part1)
02. Where Shadows Dance (part2)
03. The Mists of the Eternal Meadow
04. In the Essence of Dying
05. A Letter Hooked to the Cloud
06. Threads Of Time
07. An Unspoken Lament
08. The Path of the Dandelion Seed
09. Farewell Balled
Tir
Oytun Bektas — All Instruments
Thomas Helm – Vocals
C’est La Fin lyrics by Guillaume d’Amiens
Threads of Time lyrics by Alexander Pushkin