The Weight of Spring

Author: White Birch, the

Brand: GLITTERHOUSE

Characteristics:

• Brand: GLITTERHOUSE
• Item name: The Weight of Spring
• Product type: ABIS_MUSIC

Format: Import

Release date: 27-02-2015

Details: In August 2006, Norwegian band The White Birch played what at the time appeared to be their last show, disbanding after ten years and four albums together. The band survived, however, in the heart and mind of Ola Flottum, who refused to leave. He began composing music for films and gradually learned how to accompany images with his music. He describes his time since the band's split: It took nine years, many songs thrown out the window, before I finally found my 12 chosen ones. In those years, I lost my mother, started a family, raised two children, and bought a house in Oslo, where I recorded most of the album in the basement. The resulting music takes the form of sometimes almost unremarkable tones and soundscapes. The Weight of Spring The world as we see it. A long way to go. In the end, darkness will prevail. Once I was just a boy with the urge to destroy. I did not read those newborn sparks through the withering trees, I could only see the darkness as it came. Earth, as it awakes. Warmth I was blind, now I can see... no more darkened doors. And when it passes away. Pain As the morning dew fell as rain. The White Birch became Ola Flottum. A lot of freedom, not always so easy to manage as you have to argue with yourself. Flottum was recorded together with classically trained composer Ole Henrik Moe on violin, viola and vocal saw, with rhythm by Norwegian Academy of Music graduate Pal Hausken and Moren Barrikmo - both members of Susanna Wallumrod's Magical Orchestra (Wallumrod himself contributes vocals to The Hours). The album also features Ingrid Olava, Ingar Hunskaar (Kings of Convenience, St. Thomas, Serena-Maneesh, Jaga Jazzist) and Flotttum's wife, actress Ellen Dorrit Petersen. Grammy-winning master engineer Bob Katz put the finishing touches to The Weight of Spring. Will we remember this album in the distant future? And if so, how? Names? Instruments? Origins? The places it took us? The White Birch: The Weight of Spring: Love, as it awakes. Love will never change the morning sun, love will never change the way the darkness runs.

EAN: 4030433783023

Binding: audio CD

Item Condition: Used - Very Good