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RICHARD KNOX &
FREDERIC D. OBERLAND
The Rustle of the Stars
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ALL CD ORDERS RECEIVE A FREE INSTANT DOWNLOAD OF THE ALBUM
including exclusive non-album bonus track 'The Wreck of Hope' (alternate ambient version)
LP RELEASED: NOVEMBER 7th 2011 // CD RELEASED MAY 7th 2012
FREDERIC D. OBERLAND
The Rustle of the Stars
CD | BUY
LP (LTD EDITION) | BUY
DOWNLOAD | BUY
ALL CD ORDERS RECEIVE A FREE INSTANT DOWNLOAD OF THE ALBUM
including exclusive non-album bonus track 'The Wreck of Hope' (alternate ambient version)
LP RELEASED: NOVEMBER 7th 2011 // CD RELEASED MAY 7th 2012
"an album that’s elegiac, achingly beautiful and every bit as stark as the polar landscape that inspired the recording." WHISPERIN & HOLLERIN 9/10
"sometimes bleak, sometimes discordant, but always powerful" FLUID RADIO
"an accomplished, evocative musical voyage through the vast arctic seas and beyond" ROCK-A-ROLLA
"What at times can be a very desolate experience, can also by an emotional journey for the listener. The glacial tidal waves of trembling strings and noise sends a shiver down your spine, while at the same time, warms your heart with the albums ever present human touch." NORTHERN TRANSMISSIONS
"No carefree cruise trip, The Rustle of the Stars instead focuses on the darker end of the polar expedition experience, one that finds madness and terror setting in over the course of a long journey that brings with it more than its fair share of hopelessness, anxiety, and thoughts of disaster." TEXTURA
"In order to see this beauty, one must risk everything and perhaps be a little mad. Stunningly enunciated by Knox & Oberland's nuanced approach to songwriting" THE SILENT BALLET 8/10
"sometimes bleak, sometimes discordant, but always powerful" FLUID RADIO
"an accomplished, evocative musical voyage through the vast arctic seas and beyond" ROCK-A-ROLLA
"What at times can be a very desolate experience, can also by an emotional journey for the listener. The glacial tidal waves of trembling strings and noise sends a shiver down your spine, while at the same time, warms your heart with the albums ever present human touch." NORTHERN TRANSMISSIONS
"No carefree cruise trip, The Rustle of the Stars instead focuses on the darker end of the polar expedition experience, one that finds madness and terror setting in over the course of a long journey that brings with it more than its fair share of hopelessness, anxiety, and thoughts of disaster." TEXTURA
"In order to see this beauty, one must risk everything and perhaps be a little mad. Stunningly enunciated by Knox & Oberland's nuanced approach to songwriting" THE SILENT BALLET 8/10
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INFORMATION:
A music related concept by Richard Knox and Freédeéric D. Oberland. 450 km from the arctic circle, 'The Rustle of the Stars' is a phenomenon of austere beauty, a barely audible noise that occurs when the draught from human breath causes multiple collisions among the ice micro-crystals in the air. Some words from Richard & Frederic: We met on tour when performing in Europe with our respective bands Glissando and FareWell Poetry. We had beautiful times, drinking and talking our common grounds whilst some simple ideas formed in our minds: to compose an album together. To imagine a musical passage through the North Pole explorer diaries. To ask some people and some friends to participate. To record the project in a church. To act quickly. We began to work at our homes in November 2010, In Paris (FR) and in Leeds (UK), with electric guitars, a bunch of pedals, piano, dulcimer, organ, crystal glasses, bows and field recordings, sending and adding ideas together to the tracks, trying to find a global organic sound. We met in Leeds two months later at the beginning of 2011 to record in the St Margaret of Antioch Church, using a 'wall of sound' process in some of the tracks and arranging / recording the string parts you will hear in the music. We would like to think of this album as a polar journey to the ends of the earth through the arctic sea. We kept in mind the first polar expeditions, Edgar Allan Poe's Dream-Land, the ships trapped or crushed by ice, the point of no-return, the minds sinking, the attempt on the Pole ending in disaster, the quest of the Northwest Passage, Erebus & Terror, the Mercy Bay, Mangazeya, Charles Francis Hall, Beechey Island, the Midnight sun and the Polar night. And to quote the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge : And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen: Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken - The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound ! |
RELEASE DATE:
LP NOVEMBER 7th 2011 // CD MAY 7th 2012 FORMATS: CD / LP / DL *Limited Edition (300 hand numbered), with silver text 180g 12" HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL. Package includes artwork postcard, a screenprint and a digital download code* TRACKLISTING: 1. Sleeping Land (pt I) 2. Mist 3. Drawing Lines to the End of the World 4. Le Passage du Nord-Ouest 5. Sea of Bones 6. A Divide 7. The Wreck of Hope 8. Sleeping Land (pt II) CREDITS: All tracks composed, recorded and mixed between Leeds (Cloud Blunt Moon, St. Margaret of Antioch Church) & Paris (Magnum Diva) by Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland during the Winter 2010/2011. Recording assistance in St. Margaret of Antioch by Tim Hay. Mastered by Lawrence English at 158. Frédéric D. Oberland : piano, electric guitar, field recordings, harmonium, dulcimer, crystal glass, drones, slide, chimes, bowed glockenspiel, crackle, analog electronics Richard Knox : electric guitar, drones, screwdriver, bowed cymbal, bowed glockenspiel, field recordings, companion organ Angela Chan : viola, cello, choir &; guests, per order of appearance David Ramsay : violin Elly May Irving : choir Matt Clark : ghost narration Tim Hay : stompbox Jayne Amara Ross : Super8 projection sounds ARTWORK: Photography by Frederic D. Oberland Layout / Design by Richard Knox & Frederic D. Oberland LINKS: The Rustle of the Stars website The Rustle of the Stars facebook Richard Knox website Frederic D. Oberland website |
