Orlando & Die Unerlösten – Icetales (2004) [SACD / Newpast – Newpast SACD 1004]

Title: Orlando & Die Unerlösten – Icetales (2004)
Genre: New Age, Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

“Ice lives, ice works, groans, tears, resists the kiss of the sun. Ice has rhythm, melody and sound at the same time. Ice is music. That’s why the Icetales, the stories of ice, had to become music. The idea came to me in February 2004 on the frozen Weissensee in Carinthia. The dark core ice cracks under the temperature fluctuations and paints three-dimensional pictures with air pockets, bubbles, colors, bizarre shapes, stars, figures, delicate melodies and angular rhythms. Our music reflects this: if you listen to the inside of the songs, it’s like looking into the three-dimensionality of ice – especially in the fantastic surround sound mix of this album (to be experienced on the corresponding SACD system).” (Roland Kunz)

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Tracklist:

1    Icetales – 5:20
2    Heaven (Ice flakes) – 4:34
3    Puzzle – 4:25
4    Inside me – 3:51
5    Occhi del alma mia – 5:26
6    Seelied – 3:27
7    Sterne im Eis – 3:56
8    After great storms – 4:43
9    Secrets – 5:53
10    Unredeemed – 4:14
11    The pearl – 5:46
12    Rilke – 3:31
13    Memory – 3:15
14    Faithfully – 5:28
15    Tief unter dem Eis – 3:53

Personnel:

Roland Kunz – Countertenor Voice, Keyboards
Thomas Schmidt – Guitar
Christian Konrad – Bass
Elmar Federkeil – Drums & Gigpig
Bernd Wegener – Percussive Sounds

Note:

Hört man sich ins Innere der Ice Tales (Geschichten vom Eis) hinein, ist es wie ein Blick in die Dreidimensionalität des Eises – vor allem fantastischen Surround-Sound-Mix dieses Albums (mit der entsprechenden SACD-Anlage zu erleben). Bei diesem Album wurde auf den authentischen Livecharakter geachtet: Alle Songs sind von der gesamten Band in den Studios des BR (Studio Franken) live eingespielt worden.

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