The Forgotten Songs
Currently available from the band itself:
‘THE FORGOTTEN SONGS’
The Book of the Shattered Bonds, ch. III: The Forgotten Songs. Released by Shadowplay Records
The CD hasn’t yet hit the stores, however it is available from the band members already or through direct order at our label’s e-shop. Sales are scheduled to begin in the second half of January, 2009.
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ABOUT
‘The Forgotten Songs’ is a direct sequel to ‘The Book of the Shattered Bonds’ (2007), catching up exactly where the first album fades out, as its tiny outro ‘Hope’ appears to be the beginning of a two-part, 8 minutes long suite ‘The Snows’. This one opens with a deceptively gentle sounds and quiet voice, but then grows and suddenly explodes with a perfect metal storm; then - several moments of intense calm, and - blizzard comes again. The second song - ‘Deliverance’ goes on a much quiter tone, but then again, this quietness is deceptive as well, fraught with a hidden strain so much, so that when ‘Black-Sided Sun’, the most furious and violent song by ‘Lacklustre Mirror’ so far invades, it doesn’t seem unexpected and unwelcome already.
Such oscillations between the extremes - between thunderstorms and intense stillness go on further, and eventually the finale of ‘The Last Song’ gets the listener back to the very starting point of the cycle: as its disastrous and desperating ending repeats the opening theme of ‘The Book of the Shattered Bonds’ - ‘No Escape From Myself’… Yet then there is an instrumental track ‘The Fathomless’, which signals, that there might not be an escape, but there is always an exit leading out from the dark.
‘Forgotten Songs’, the third chapter of ‘The Book of the Shattered Bonds’ appears to be more ‘massive’ and forceful then the first two parts. Definitely, it is the music intended not to entertain, but rather to immerse the listener into a very paradoxical dimension, where the violent chaos seems to be enveloped in harmony, and vice versa, and where snowstorms coexist with scorching celestial flames, and the Sun itself has two sides…
Recorded by:
b. - keys, lead and backing vocals, drums programming,
ScHADE - all guitars
Mikhail Maximov, Draum - sound engineering, mastering
Guest appearances:
Celestial Air - guitars in ‘The Snows 1-2′
Serenite - choir vocals in ‘Tempests Are away’.
A compilation of music collective unconscious, and texts by Lacklustre Mirror, except lyrics for ‘Dance Macabre’ by Alexandr Blok.
THANKS TO:
The current and former band members for all we have shared; our colleagues, parents, relatives, friends and beloved for help and support, fellow musicians for keeping the scene alive and kicking,
AND PERSONALLY TO:
Children of the Gun, Mura-Kami, Downsteps and Magik Brite bands members, Anna ‘Dis’ Tikhanushkina, Larisa Karpova, Sergey & Anastasia Ilyin, Nathalie [n/vi] Voroshiloff, Alex ‘Deviorian’ Kiryazoff, Oleg Danilov, Kirill Tikhonov, The Brookers Family, Marea Internum, Mick Mercer, Sergey ‘Willie’, Arseniy, Elena ‘The Leaf’ Rayeva, Daria Dmitrieva and all so far unmentioned.
ALSO THANKS to:
Enya, Loreena McKennit, Endraum, Kronos Quartet, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Mission UK, Dead Can Dance, Cyclotimia, Moon Far Away, Elend, Isis, Diary of Dreams, Lacrimosa, Mylene Farmer, Paradise Lost for their very existence and music.
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Lia for she knows what; Count ASH (’Moon Far Away’); Fellowship Art Group members, Shadowplay Records, namely Whisper and Martin, for releasing our works and overall support; Greg for hosting our sites, and Alexander Kononov for his words of truth:
Amen.
The Book of the Shattered Bonds is thus complete.
TRACKLIST:
01. The Snows, p.1 - 4:19
02. The Snows, p.2 - 3:50
03. Deliverance - 6:27
04. Black-Sided Sun - 5:31
05. Yesterday Child - 5:41
06. Dance Macabre - 5:30
07. The Everburning - 6:26
08. The Voices of the Grey Spring - 3:31
09. Tempests Are Away - 6:31
10. Is It Our Farewell? - 1:49
11. The Last Song - 7:25
12. But Still I Feel It Happens All Too Soon - 3:00
13. The Fathomless - 7:52
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FACTSHEET
- The Forgotten Songs is recorded basically by just two people.
- The album features two earliest songs by Lacklustre Mirror - The Snows (1998-99), Dance Macabre and Tempests are Away (1999).
- The Snows is the last song LM’s cofounder Celestial Air recorded before leaving the band.
- Yesterday Child is dedicated to Tami Stronach, who played Child-like Empress in ‘The Never-Ending Story’ 1984 motion picture (a.k.a. Die Unendliche Geschichte). Initially it was planned to be featured in a future Lacklustre Mirror album, currently a work-in-progress.
- Dance Macabre is a third song with Russian text by Lacklustre Mirror.
- The Everburning is dedicated to miss C. Brooker.
- Serenite who provided female vocals for ‘Tempests are Away’ earlier sang with ‘Decembered’ project (credited there as Bruma).
- The Fathomless is dedicated to Marea Internum.
- Against all odds, Lacklustre Mirror is alive.
