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SONGS OF IVORY AND OBSIDIAN
‘All piano, delicate and emotional’, a collection of acoustic (piano) songs ‘Songs of Ivory and Obsidian’ is the Yin to the Yang of the full heavy metal releases of Entering Polaris.
All music & lyrics by Tom Tee, except songs 1 & 2: music by Tom Tee & Hans Audenaerd. Piano arrangements & additional composition by Franky De Mangelaere
The musicians:
Franky De Mangelaere - Pianos
Louis Van der Linden - Percussion
David Van Ransbeeck - Violin
Karolina Prieels -Cello
Maarten Taelman - Contrabass
Guest musicians:
Anneleen Olbrechts – vocal ad libs on songs 1 & 6
Audrey Dandeville – additional choir voices on song 3
Gregg Rossetti – sax on song 7
Dario Frodo – additional backing vocals on song 9
The vocalists:
- Ere We Sleep Under the Soil – Tom Englund
- Counting Hours – Louis Soenens
- Glacier – John Yelland
- Gordian Pristine – Tom Tee
- Empty Heaven – Tom Tee & Audrey Dandeville
- A Song of Distant Earth – Damian Wilson
- The Vitruvian Man (Part I) – Benny Willaert
- This Old Land (An Arrow to the Sun) – Georg Neuhauser
- Do Raindrops Aspire To Be Oceans – Roy Khan & Audrey Dandeville
Mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio, San Marino
Releases on 5 September 2024 by Freya Records
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