 Sweden's Isildurs Bane return, this time joined by singer Jinian Wilde (David Cross Band).
Format: CD / Cat No: CDATX8 / Released: 08/03/2024
Track Listing: 1. Rise - Part 1 - Dream Of Light (The Tempering) / 2. Rise - Part 2 - Trigger Finger (The Spiraling) / 3. Sign Of The Times (The Calling) / 4. Born Afraid (The Binding) / 5. Sailing Home (The Following) / 6. Avalon (The Knowing) / 7. Lifetimes (The Remembering)
More information: Working with singer Jinian Wilde, best known for his work in The David Cross Band, on this album has resulted in another shift in direction, while remaining true to the ethos that inspires and animates Isildurs Bane.
Containing stirring themes, cinematic landscapes, hymnal reveries and haunting, beautiful melodies, album finds Isildurs Bane at its most contemplative and broadly deals with the notion of change (the changing world around us as well as the change that springs from within).
Mats Johansson, who joined Isildurs Bane in 1977 standing not only as its longest-serving member, but also its principal composer and keyboardist comments, "Our work with Jinian is similar to how we worked with Peter Hammill and Marillion's Steve Hogarth. The music was developed for a year or so before we made contact with Jinian. The reason was to try to keep Isildurs Bane's expression basically, but that Jinian would have a free hand when it comes to vocal melodies, vocal harmonies, and lyrics of course".
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