Dave Aftandilian
I have loved all of Sol's releases that I can get my hands on, and this promises to be no exception. The depth of emotion on just the sample track is excruciatingly lovely and heartbreaking. Instant buy.
DIGIPACK CD
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• Ltd 200
• 6-panel Digipack
12"LP VINYL
(incl. Bandcamp Digital Download and Streaming)
• Ltd 200
• 140gr. black vinyl
• 350gr. sleeve, 3mm spine
• 2-page insert
• Black inner sleeve
• Outer plastic sleeve
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"What do you see in your darkness
when you open your eyes
and worlds unfold?"
"Promethean Sessions" is SOL's ninth full-length studio album, a work with a complex and troubled genesis that stands out as unique in the band's catalogue. Emil Brahe is still at the helm of the project, but this time the Danish multi-instrumentalist has surrounded himself with a large ensemble of talented musicians who accompany him in his folk doom ruminations.
"It is an album that has travelled a lot and seen multiple versions, atmospheres and songs before finally being done," Emil Brahe explains. "With its roots planted equally deep in the doomy soil and more acoustic drone spheres, 'Promethean Sessions' has been layered with nine years of different sessions to texturize the sound and to give an abysmal depth to the album."
Without ever losing sight of the sober and painfully intimate character of the compositions, Brahe took care of the rich arrangements, intertwining - among others - double bass, organ, clarinet, dulcimer, viola, violin and hurdy gurdy, making of "Promethean Sessions" the culmination of a career marked by originality and individualism.
credits
released November 24, 2023
SOL was:
Emil Brahe: Synthesizer, organ, accordion, electric mandolin, gong, vocal
Andrew Dorman: Vocal, synthesizer, guitar, marxolin
Rikke Alminde: Vocal, church organ, vibraphone
Tor Brandt: Vocal, guitar, piano
Stine Kloster: Vocal, bowed banjo, guitar
Christian Qvortrup: Drums, vocal
Andreas Hansn: Guitar
Peter Borre: Bass
Lotte Maxild: Bass clarinet, clarinet, organ
Olga Goija: Viola
Jens Balder: Trombone, tuba
Christian Sinding Sondergaard: Dulcimer, violin, guitar
Mikkel Reher-Langberg: Clarinet
Jens Peter Moller: Double bass
Aske Krammer: Double bass, percussion
Anna Emilie Wittus Johnsen: Hurdy gurdy, bowed lyre
Mikko Mansikkala Jensen: Feedback guitar
Lyrics and arrangements by Emil Brahe. Music by SOL
Recorded and produced by Emil Brahe & Mikko Mansikkala Jensen
Visual design by Francesco Gemelli
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Cat. Nr. IVR221
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Powerful, plaintive expression of the fathomless sorrow of our suffering cetaceans and their depthless home, together with the indescribable loveliness of their distant blue-black realm. I feel as much interstellar space here as I do deep ocean, equally crushing and buoying. Dave Aftandilian