Cat No:
DISCUS69CD
Release Date: 20 July 2019
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5051078962221
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
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Description
Rophonic is an ongoing boutique collaboration between Peter Rophone (voice, guitar and more) and Michael Harding (keyboards and other electronic manoeuvres). Three years in the making, their first full-length album 'In With The Out Crowd' spans leftfield torch songs, finely sculpted soundscapes and choral pyrotechnics. It's atmospheric, hypnotic, refined and self-contained - pay a visit to their world but be warned, you may never leave.
"It's been a summer we won't forget in a hurry, but for me there's another reason - the first full-length album release from Rophonic. It's as though they knew we'd need something to listen to on the balmy evenings, so have spent the last three years making an album which is now my soundtrack to this sweltering summer. Their line-up has evolved over the last few years, but at its core has always been the multi-talented musician Michael Harding and singer Peter Rophone, who has a distinctive and beautiful voice, sometimes almost whispered but always totally compelling. The 12 tracks here all manage to have their own unique character but form an album in the truest sense. It's as though with each new song you turn the page to discover something new, but they are all somehow linked by a musical thread. Tracks like 'The Jewelled Crown' have delicate, almost choral arrangements of voices and music, together creating a soundscape, as though you are in some giant, ethereal cathedral. Sometimes, on tracks like 'The Door Into Summer' or 'Across the Coronal Plane', there are few or no words and the music is a swirling mist of treated instruments. The closing track, 'Curtain Call', has a smouldering jazzy feel to it, and is the perfect low-key ending to one of my favourite albums so far this year." - EXPOSED
Peter Rophone - voice, guitar, more
Michael Harding - keyboards and other electronic manoeuvres -
Tracklisting
- 1. Welcome Back To the Afterlife
- 2. The Prophet Will See You Now
- 3. The Erl King
- 4. Sunhead
- 5. When The World Was Older Than Today
- 6. What No-One Sees
- 7. The Door Into Summer
- 8. The Jewelled Crown
- 9. My Friend The Abyss
- 10. You'll Be The Death Of Me
- 11. Across The Coronal Plance
- 12. Curtain Call
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