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FAREWELL POETRY
Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite
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ALL LP & CD PURCHASES FROM THE GIZEH STORE RECEIVED A FREE INSTANT DOWNLOAD OF THE ALBUM
Deluxe LP includes 8 page booklet, 12"x12" exclusive art print on recycled board from Alice Lewis, three small art prints & a postcard.
RELEASED: CD+DVD SEPTEMBER 26th 2011 // LP+DVD OCTOBER 3rd 2011
Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite
LP+DVD (LTD EDITION) | BUY
CD+DVD | BUY
DOWNLOAD | BUY
ALL LP & CD PURCHASES FROM THE GIZEH STORE RECEIVED A FREE INSTANT DOWNLOAD OF THE ALBUM
Deluxe LP includes 8 page booklet, 12"x12" exclusive art print on recycled board from Alice Lewis, three small art prints & a postcard.
RELEASED: CD+DVD SEPTEMBER 26th 2011 // LP+DVD OCTOBER 3rd 2011
"Deep emotional wounds often need to be reopened and scarped in order to have a shot at healing. Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite invites us to pass through the raging fire so that we might stand on the ravaged side, patting the flames on our singed clothes and glaring triumphantly at the monster that should have destroyed us. One of 2011's defining musical moments. Miss this at your peril."
THE SILENT BALLET 9/10 (album of the month)
“Listening to Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite, one might also be reminded of The Velvet Underground performing at The Factory, with all of the visual spectacle attendant upon such a “happening,” as one more precursor to FareWell Poetry. One shouldn't make too much of such references, however, as the mesmerizing Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite is radically unlike the material others before them have issued” TEXTURA (album of the month)
“a distinctive identity in a somewhat crowded scene of post-rock/shoegaze/modern orchestral instrumentalists.” FLUID RADIO
“More than mere music, ‘Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite’ is a truly breathtaking work”. WHISPERIN & HOLLERIN 9/10
“Full of passion, conviction and musical expertise this is an awe-inspiring album that distinctly showcases the ambition of both the artists and the record label” TASTY 9/10
"atmospheric, noir-ish compositions paired perfectly with spoken-word enunciations. An arresting album, and that only whets the appetite for their live shows." ROCK-A-ROLLA
THE SILENT BALLET 9/10 (album of the month)
“Listening to Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite, one might also be reminded of The Velvet Underground performing at The Factory, with all of the visual spectacle attendant upon such a “happening,” as one more precursor to FareWell Poetry. One shouldn't make too much of such references, however, as the mesmerizing Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite is radically unlike the material others before them have issued” TEXTURA (album of the month)
“a distinctive identity in a somewhat crowded scene of post-rock/shoegaze/modern orchestral instrumentalists.” FLUID RADIO
“More than mere music, ‘Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite’ is a truly breathtaking work”. WHISPERIN & HOLLERIN 9/10
“Full of passion, conviction and musical expertise this is an awe-inspiring album that distinctly showcases the ambition of both the artists and the record label” TASTY 9/10
"atmospheric, noir-ish compositions paired perfectly with spoken-word enunciations. An arresting album, and that only whets the appetite for their live shows." ROCK-A-ROLLA
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INFORMATION:
'Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite' was recorded and mixed between Paris, Normandy (FR) and Saint-Margaret of Antioch Church in Leeds (UK), these four haunting orchestral pieces were performed in the studio live, and re-recorded using a 'wall of sound' process, adding the natural reverb of the church to the raw tracks. The DVD includes the Super 8/16mm black&white film 'As True As Troilus' by Jayne Amara Ross & a bonus live performance shot by Alain Grodard & Rod Maurice during the 'Festival des Nouveaux Arts Sacres' at Saint-Eustache Church in Paris. You can watch a trailer for the film above. Words on 'As True As Troilus' film by Nicole Brenez (curator for the Avant-Garde programs at the Cineématheèque Francaise) 'As True As Troilus owes its title to Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (act III, sc .2). In this work, Troilus embodies denial, he does not want to see his lover for what she really is. Despite the fact that she is ‘as false as Cressida’, he remains resolutely faithful in his love, desiring to be the superlative lover. ‘True swains in love shall in the world to come / Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes, / Full of protest, of oath and big compare, / Want similes, truth tired with iteration (…) / Yet, after all comparisons of truth, / As truth's authentic author to be cited, / 'As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse, /And sanctify the numbers.’ Unflinchingly wrestling with denial, As True As Troilus combines two antithetical energies : elucidation that puts into perspective/expounds upon the complex afflicting Troilus, and enchantment that champions over lucidity in order to access a full experience, deeper than any rational knowledge. The film finds its answer in an overwhelming radiance: images that radiate clarity, visceral logic, symbolic readability, and graphic splendour unfurling in symmetry and duplication. From the onset Jayne Amara Ross retraces denial to its source, death, defining the pathologies of obsession, addiction and monomania. As fugitive passengers in free-fall through time, we reinvent passion, heroism, adventure, or even a tragic destiny, all in order to repress our ineluctable end. Following in the tradition of great cinematic mythographers Jean Cocteau, Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Gregory Markopoulos, Etant Donnés but also David Lynch in Eraserhead, Jayne Amara Ross reworks the traditional iconography of the Fates and weaves an astonishing portrayal of the human condition. As True As Troilus is endowed with a poetic fullness, as assured in the (visual, written, musical) images themselves as Troilus is confident in Cressida. Such enchantment is born from this raw fullness: black loyal to white, a musical soundtrack loyal to the optical vibrations, a film loyal to a strange Elizabethan drama. Never ‘tired with iteration’, As True As Troilus becomes its own protagonist in the sense that it evolves into negativity and magnifies the vulnerability that results from a willing blindness. What madness. But the point here is to transmute this succession of images into psychic irradiance. A declaration of love.' |
RELEASE DATE:
SEPTEMBER 26th 2011 FORMATS: CD+DVD / LP+DVD (LTD. EDITION) / DL *CD+DVD comes in a six panel digipack complete with eight page booklet* *LP + DVD comes as a deluxe, numbered edition of 500, includes eight page booklet / exclusive art print drawing by Alice Lewis on heavyweight recycled board / postcard/ three small art prints* TRACKLISTING: 1. As True as Troilus 2. All in the Full, Indomitable Light of Hope (pt1) 3. All in the Full, Indomitable Light of Hope (pt2) 4. In Dreams Airlifted Out CREDITS: Frederic D. Oberland / electric guitar, autoharp, field recordings, music box, fender rhodes, pin piano, hammond organ, crystal glass. Jayne Amara Ross / poetry, Super 8 & 16 mm hand processed films, tape recorder. Eat Gas / electric guitar & bass, harmonic pipe, glockenspiel, baritone, pin piano. Colin Johnco / machines. Stanislas Grimbert / drums & percussions, glockenspiel. FEATURING: Gaspar Claus / cello. Christelle Lassort / violin. Uspudo / trumpet. Dave Olliffe / electric guitar. ARTWORK: Original drawings by Alice Lewis. Graphic design by David Bart. Film stills by Jayne Amara Ross. LINKS: FareWell Poetry artist page FareWell Poetry website FareWell Poetry facebook Farewell Poetry soundcloud |
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