Ostara (album)

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Ostara
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Studio album by The Wishing Tree
Released 11 March 2009 (MP3 download),
23 March 2009 (physical release and FLAC download)
Genre Folk rock
Label Racket Records
Producer Steve Rothery
The Wishing Tree chronology
Carnival of Souls
(1996)
Ostara
(2009)

Ostara is the title of the second album by The Wishing Tree, a project by Marillion's guitarist Steve Rothery and singer Hannah Stobart. The album was produced and engineered by Rothery and mixed by Michael Hunter, who also produced the two most recent Marillion albums. Hunter also contributed additional keyboards and percussion. The artwork is by Spanish artist Antonio Seijas, who had created the artwork for Marillion's Happiness is the Road (2008). Rothery's wife Jo and daughter Jennifer are credited for additional backing vocals and cover design, respectively. The drummer is Hannah's husband Paul Craddick (of Enchant).

The Wishing Tree (band)

The Wishing Tree is a music project by Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery and American vocalist Hannah Stobart. Their debut album, Carnival of Souls, was released in 1996 and a second album, Ostara, was released 23 March 2009.

Marillion British rock band

Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979. They emerged from the post-punk music scene in Britain and existed as a bridge between the styles of punk rock and classic progressive rock, becoming the most commercially successful neo-progressive rock band of the 1980s.

Steve Rothery musician

Steven Rothery is an English musician. He is the original guitarist and the longest continuous member of the British rock band Marillion. Outside Marillion, Rothery has recorded two albums as part of the duo the Wishing Tree and an instrumental solo album, The Ghosts of Pripyat, released in September 2014. He also founded the British Guitar Academy in 2011.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Ostara" – 5:16
  2. "Easy" – 5:26
  3. "Hollow Hills" – 6:21
  4. "Seventh Sign" – 5:43
  5. "Falling" – 5:55
  6. "Fly" – 4:41
  7. "Kingfisher" – 4:16
  8. "Soldier" – 5:36

Total time 43:14 All songs written by Steve Rothery/Hannah Stobart. All lyrics by Stobart.

Personnel

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