Desiderium is the latest solo album by Jacqui Hunt and is part celebration of her 40 years in music, Jacqui who is best known for her work in Single Gun Theory and Delerium. She recorded the album with her husband Brian Connolly along with Laurence Pike and Daniel Denholm. Recorded at QUSP Studios in Sydney, Australia, engineered by Brian Connolly, mixed by Daniel Denholm and mastered by Michael Lynch.
The album opens with the title song Desiderium ethereal gossamer ambient pop, evocation of desires felt deep within, somewhere between Tori Amos and Stina Nordenstam glacially evocative.
Look At The Sky is slow sad reflections, staring at the Sky looking for answers to life's traumas, pain slowly evoked ambient gospel plea, Indian drumming, delicate piano weaving through the song, capturing all the pain and loss within the beauty.
Planet is a hope that Jacqui can build her own Planet a place nicer more chilled, in tune, than the Planet we are currently on, slow hushed vocals and backing help create this new world she wants to see dawning.
Cecilia takes the ancient myth, updating it through minimalist ethereal backing, whispering through the wind towards you, pulling at heart strings, ephemeral and bewitching, floaty and sensual.
Cape Of Light is a slow hushed plea for change, finding a way to a better place, soft cushion of synths and strings. Hoping your world doesn't fall apart suddenly. This Love has slow heartbeat like guitar, gossamer Evi Vine like fragile vocals, making a plea for change through Love rather than hate.
Temple Of illumination is a place we should all seek to go to, sepulchral sounds, whispered messages seeking illumination and growth, from spirituality within. Follow Me Here seeks healing through the recognition that we are all the same essentially, we need to set our differences aside, allowing this to gently bring us together. a clubby dance beat glacially floats into the turbulent seas we are all navigating.
Cycles is attempting to get us to be more in tune with annual cycles, drawing us towards or destinies and new realities, having crossed the portals to a new life detailed in this stark elegy. Mother isn't the John Lennon monument but is a plea to Jacqui's mother to show her how to heal all the wounds and pain she feels at her loss. Shimmering strings and angelic vocals slowly build, she runs through the fields of Lavender, explaining why I lit some Lavender Incense just before this song started, seeking advice and help only a mother can give, hoping the advice can continue, while she runs through the fields of Lavender.
Alice Magic ethereal dance pop feel for all the magical things Alice can do, including endless goth inspiration, claiming your star, your own holy grail inheritance, the magic that can sustain you for all eternity. The album closes with the essential and obvious Alice Magic (K.I.M. Remix) that ups the club beats and goes toward the essential Temple Of Love style EBM club remix rather than the late night red wine album version.
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