CORDE OBLIQUE’s eight studio album ‘Cries and Whispers’ is a double album inspired by homonymous Bargman’s movie ‘Cries and Whispers’; the album is split in two sides: Volume 1 ‘Cries’ (Post Metal / Folkgaze) and Volume 2 ‘Whispers’ (Ethereal / Post Folk). The album is going to be released on February 14 2025, for the 20th anniversary of the band (2005-2025) and includes 10 unreleased tracks composed by mastermind Riccardo Prencipe plus a cover from the band ALCEST (‘Souvenirs d’un autre monde’) and one solo guitar song (Satie’s ‘Gnossienne’ n. 1). Featuring: SPIRITUAL FRONT, IRFAN, members of ASHRAM, and the Italian actress Maddalena Crippa.“In the 90s, when I was 18, in addition to my first band LUPERCALIA, I played in another Extreme Metal band. However, at the time I found our sound a bit outdated and abandoned it, but I never stopped listening to it. For years I had dreamed of returning to my origins, but in a different, less conventional way, taking advantage of twenty years of record production experience, and so I wrote an album divided into two volumes, apparently very different, using:
- For the VOL. 1 the electric guitar (with a sound that fused Post Rock with Death and Black Metal style riffs)
- And for the VOL. 2 the classical guitar (using the technique I learned during my exams at the conservatory). These two sounds have always coexisted within me.”
Tracklist
Vol 1 - ‘Cries’
01. The Nightingale and the rose
02. Leaver
03. John Ruskin
04. The Father Child
05. A step to lose the balance
06. Christmas carol
Vol 2 - ‘Whispers’
07. Bruegel’s dance
08. Eleusa Consumpta
09. Souvenirs d’un autre monde
10. Tango di Gaeta
11. Selfish Giant
12. Gnossienne n. 1
“All the sounds, voices and musical instruments that you can hear on this album have been performed, played, sung and recorded by real musicians and voices. We didn’t use any midi, samplers or sequences, apart from the good old metronome.”
Credits:
Recorded by Massimo Aluzzi at Splash Studio (Naples)
Mixed by Massimo Aluzzi and Andrea Cutillo at Splash Studio (Naples)
Mastering by Graeme Durham at The Exchange Studio (London)
Corde Oblique is
Riccardo Prencipe (classic guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar)
Rita Saviano (voice on tracks 01, 02, 03, 09, 11)
Caterina Pontrandolfo (voice on track 04)
Denitza Seraphim (voice on track 02)
Simone Salvatori (backing vocals on track 09)
Maddalena Crippa (spoken voice on track 13)
Edo Notarloberti (violin)
Alessio Sica (drums)
Umberto Lepore (bass, double bass)
Luigi Rubino (piano)
Michele Maione (percussions)
Salvio Vassallo (analogue synths)
Daniele la Torre (mandolin, mandola)
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Source: Press Release
