Storm Season

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Storm Season
White Willow Storm Season.jpg
Studio album by White Willow
Released 2004
Genre Progressive rock
Length47:23
Label Laser's Edge Records
Producer Ken Golden, Jacob Holm-Lupo
White Willow chronology
Sacrament
(2000) Sacrament2000		Storm Season
(2004)		 Signal to Noise
(2006) Signal to Noise2006
Professional ratings
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Storm Season is the fourth studio album by the Norwegian progressive rock band White Willow. It is the last album to feature Sylvia Erichsen (currently known as Sylvia Skjellestad) on vocals until her return on 2011's Terminal Twilight .

Norway constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northwestern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard are also part of the Kingdom of Norway. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land.

Progressive rock is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its "progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of "art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening, not dancing.

White Willow is a Norwegian art rock band, mixing elements of orchestral pop, 1970s progressive rock, jazz-rock and even electronic elements. They have released 6 albums so far: 1995's Ignis Fatuus, which features symphonic folk rock in the vein of early King Crimson and Genesis as well as Mellow Candle; 1998's Ex Tenebris, which is minimalist prog/post-rock; 2000's Sacrament, a full-blown symphonic rock/pop release; 2004's Storm Season, the band's best-selling record to date, mixing darker, more guitar-heavy elements into their sound, and their fifth studio album, Signal to Noise, which was released in August 2006. Their new album Terminal Twilight was released on October 17, 2011. Terminal Twilight was well received by critics. Horror/rock website Bloody Disgusting wrote: "Stunningly beautiful, almost heart achingly so, Terminal Twilight unfolds and reveals itself like a painting that shows more and more with each viewing". Allmusic.com called the album "a tour de force in inventive art rock". MSN Music called it "a gorgeous, haunting album". Terminal Twilight was also voted best produced album of 2011 by the readers of prog blog Progulator.

Contents

Track listing

All songs have been composed by Jacob Holm-Lupo except where noted. [3]

Jacob Holm-Lupo is a Norwegian guitarist, composer and producer. He is the main songwriter in White Willow and the Opium Cartel. He also runs Termo Records together with Lars Fredrik Frøislie., and the recording and mixing studio Dude Ranch Studio. With White Willow he is currently working on their seventh studio album.

  1. "Chemical Sunset" (Holm-Lupo, Traditional) – 7:58
  2. "Sally Left" – 6:33
    • Voice – Teresa K. Aslanian [4]
  3. "Endless Science" – 3:37
  4. "Soulburn" – 9:21
    • Vocals – Finn Coren [4]
  5. "Insomnia" – 5:49
  6. "Storm Season" (Lars Fredrik Frøislie) – 4:21
  7. "Nightside of Eden" (Holm-Lupo, Johannes Sæbøe) – 9:44
  8. "Headlights" (Japanese bonus track) – 6:22

Personnel

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

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Tambourine musical instrument in the percussion family

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Cello musical instrument

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References

  1. ↑ "DPRP Reviews - 2005 - Volume 1 - New Year Special". www.dprp.net. Retrieved 2009-11-08.
  2. ↑ "Music review of Storm Season CD by White Willow (2004) [RockReviews]". www.rockreviews.org. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  3. ↑ "allmusic ((( Storm Season > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 2009-11-08.
  4. 1 2 "White Willow - Storm Season (CD, Album) at Discogs". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 2009-11-08.
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