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Cassette & Mini Booklet
Cassette + Digital Album
Ltd. cassette with die cut cover, full print cover/insert & vinyl sticker. Multiple options for front cover. (J-Card - Gmund Urban - Cement Gray - 310gsm / Full print - Archival Photo Paper - Satin 290gsm) Includes a mini booklet with liner notes.
Each item is assembled by hand. The mark of the maker can be found on the surface of the items, showing the efforts to manipulate materials and minimise waste. For us, an imperfect artefact for sale is preferable to a usable flaw in the dump.
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This album marks the end of a “Four Seasons”-project.
The first release in the project was the track “Fanfare of Spring”, featured on the compilation “Tying Up Loose Ends #1 – Culport”. This was followed by the summer album “En Sommerdag I Kroken (Ruter)”. The endless loop tape “Decomposing Transitions” described autumn, containing a two-minute loop, with no beginning nor end.
Just like “En Sommerdag I Kroken”, this is an album with a narrative. The narrative here is presented both in the titles, and the enclosed text (program notes). Thus, making this a piece of program music.
Undergangen (Håp)
1.
Snowflakes
In slow motion
Soft, white, cold
Blanketing the streets
Winters first snowfall
2.
Bone snap!
Blue lights flicker through the night
At the hospital
Christmas carols on the radio
Fracture
3.
Falling in and out of consciousness
Deadliest catch on the Television
Simon & Garfunkel in my soul
4.
Intramedullary nail
Intramedullary rod
Inter-locking nail
A metal rod forced into the medullary cavity of a bone
Küntscher nail
5.
Home, again
Morphine wearing off
Inner demons come knocking
Anxiety, despair
Melancholia
6. (1 & 2)
Sullen grey morning
Wander aimlessly
A slab of concrete
Somewhere, someone is singing
Graffiti on the walls
A butterfly
The end of the underpass
A crack of sunlight
7.
Seeping through the cracks
A melody
From a past life
A song
of hope
8.
Walking through the graveyard
The pram’s wheels
Crush the frozen puddles
Water is seeping through the cracks
9.
Seagulls
Crepuscular rays
Church bells
ringing in
Pappa
10.
Home, again
Refreshed
Singing
Sun and Moon
Will meet once again.
11.
Migratory birds return
Snow is melting
Fanfares of spring
Heard in the distance
Design + Artwork – Phil/Tone Burst
Mastering: Jørgen Kirksæther @Transistor Mastering
All tracks written & produced by T. Jervell
Except:
Track 5, 9 & 11 written & produced by ChromaDots & T. Jervell
Track 10 written & produced by Subfusc, BJC, ChromaDots & T. Jervell
Track 10 lyrics written by Arne C. Jervell
For all the love, inspiration, advice, help, co-operation/creation, and conversations, Thank you: Guro and the kids, Phil, Barry, The TB & co-family, Arne Jervell, Rune Opdahl, Kristoffer Aars, Mr. Bosanquet, Matt Atkins, Luke Sanger, Bjørn Andor Drage, Jørgen Kirksæther, Friends and family.