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RAMESES I I I - Honey Rose

Name: RAMESES I I I – Honey Rose
Item: Honey Rose
Rating: 6
Author: Antonio Ciarletta

2007 (Important)

ambient, experimental, folk

by Antonio Ciarletta

The music of Rameses III moves along several different lines, making it hard to pin down. It combines the "old-school" psychedelia that fueled the fortunes of Pink Floyd and the most rapturous kraut-rock acts, alongside the classic ambient music in the Eno-esque mould seen through the lens of Type Records, but also certain weird digressions that make the sound pastoral as well as thick and hazy.

"Honey Rose", their first release on Important Records, is the EP that accompanies "Suityman", John Spira's mysterious short film, and follows just a few months after the excellent "Matanuska". Six tracks unfold a single guiding theme, one continuous 23-minute arc that showcases the London trio's talent for painting bucolic scenes of an immaterial elsewhen.

A dreamlike world spattered with languid melodies and folk digressions that build slowly, gradually, before dissolving into delicate ambient vapors; like the wavering back-and-forth of a moth, like Boxhead Ensemble stripped of that solipsistic autumnal veneer, drones barely more than hinted at hum in the background, while rain falls inexorably in "Theme One". A catatonic chant accompanies "Theme Two", with barely sketched feedback guitars, like an ultra-stretched Mazzy Star. And so it goes, along the same trajectory, climbing all the way to "Theme Six", less than a minute of interlocking guitars. Delightful.

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30/04/2026

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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Antonio Ciarletta, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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