Anyone who has seen Cirrha Niva perform on stage, knows that this Dutch band does not only make music , but manages to evoke a world of mysticism and self-will. On the stage they are surrounded by life-like sculptures, floating, tormented faces, burning arms reaching out, an enormous back dropping and an attractive light show. LIAISON DE LA MORTEThe concept has been written by poet and guitar player Rob Willemse and consists of seven chapters. The music of Liaison de la Morte , which varies from wide-ranging styles and atmospheres, has been composed collectively by the six band members. Progression is foremost and the musicians of Cirrha Niva combine rock and metal with bombastic symphonic arrangements, cinematic pieces, jazz, grooving rhythms, electronics and classical-like parts. The seven chapters gradually flow from one to the other, but they can be listened to as stand-alone pieces as well. Singer Arnold Kloek and bassist/singer Liselotte Hegt play the characters from the story:…An old man longs for the peace and reunion that death will bring him. On October 31st (at midnight, the hour of ghosts), when the border line between the two worlds is at its thinnest, he yields to his desires with hoping to embrace His deceased wife. While dying, he sees a parade of dying people walking towards the underworld. The man finds himself in a limbo, between earthly life and death…Here he meets his deceased wife, who in spite of her seductions has malevolent ulterior motives for her former lover……The only one who triumphs is The Lord of the Underworld, a cynic and sarcastic person who rules the ignorant living and dying people. The Gate to Death is his property and no one is to escape! Liaison de la Morte takes you in a whirlpool of vague memories, unearthly metaphors and ink-black romanticism. In a cryptic way, the age old drama of life and death, love and deceit, conflicts and desires, sorrow and joy is told.