A great track listing from this selection . . . . well actually my default position!?
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This is wonderful and one of the best selections from a Butterboy compilation
Haunting Ballads & Melancholic Masterpieces
(A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)
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HAUNTING AND MELANCHOLIC
VA - Haunting Ballads & Melancholic Masterpieces (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)
When I call this box set Haunting Ballads & Melancholic Masterpieces, I’m not reaching for drama, I’m naming the feeling that threads through every track I’ve chosen. These songs linger. They move with us, shadow us, and refuse to fade once heard. The set exists because I wanted to capture that elusive quality, music that unsettles and comforts at the same time, that makes silence feel charged after the last note dies away.Each track here was chosen not for popularity, but for resonance. Some are rare, tucked away on forgotten labels, others are more familiar but reframed in this context. Together they form a dialogue across decades and genres, proving that “haunting” is not confined to minor keys or ghostly atmospheres, it can be found in a fragile vocal, a drifting synth line, or a lyric that cuts deeper than expected.The title Haunting Masterpieces elevates the idea beyond mood. These aren’t just songs that sound eerie, they are works that master the art of staying with us. They haunt because they move, through memory, through motion, through the spaces we carry inside. The compilation is more a journey, a moody, evocative selection spanning genres. Each CD flows into the next, building a landscape where melancholy and beauty coexist.I wanted listeners to explore further, to hear how these tracks converse with one another. Notice how a spectral ambient piece can sit beside a stark ballad, how a pulsing rhythm can still ache with longing. This set is my attempt to map the terrain of haunting, not as a genre, but as an emotional state. If you let it, the music will follow you long after the box is closed.The set follows these themes:CD1 - Ethereal Voices & Acoustic Shadows Whispers and fragile tones drift through this opening disc. Voices dissolve into acoustic textures, creating presence and absence at once. These tracks haunt by intimacy, lingering in silence. Ethereal Voices & Acoustic Shadows begins the journey with music that feels near yet impossibly distant, setting the box set’s spectral tone.CD2 - Gothic Echoes & Chamber Despair Dark chords and solemn atmospheres define this disc. Gothic echoes reverberate like candlelight in stone halls, while chamber pieces embody confinement and sorrow. Each track was chosen for its shadowed beauty, revealing haunting as grandeur in decay. Gothic Echoes & Chamber Despair deepens the mood with elegance carved from loss.CD3 - Melancholy in Motion Explores haunting as movement. Ambient landscapes and pulsing rhythms drift forward yet remain tethered to sadness. Each track embodies journeys that ache, motion that never escapes memory. Melancholy in Motion reminds us haunting is not static, it follows, pursues, and moves with us through time and feeling.CD4 - Soul Wounds & Lyrical Ghosts Closing the set, these tracks reveal haunting as vulnerability. Lyrics echo like scars, voices carry wounds that never heal. Each song lingers because it speaks from pain and beauty intertwined. Soul Wounds & Lyrical Ghosts ends the journey with music that feels deeply human, leaving listeners changed by its resonance.I hope this set is enjoyed and opens an avenue for further exploration. (Butterboy)
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