CORDE OBLIQUE - Cries and Whispers

CORDE OBLIQUE - Cries and Whispers

Label: The Stones of Naples

Formato: CD

Data: Fevereiro 2025

Envios a partir de 15 Fevereiro 2025

Corde Oblique's eight studio album is being released exactly on the day of their 20th project Anniversary (2005-2025) and was inspired by the omonymous Bergman's movie "Cries and Whispers" (1972). For this new masterpiece of an album, Corde Oblique decided to split it

in two parts: Volume 1 ("CRIES") featuring the more Post Metal / Folkgaze inspired tracks Volume 2 ("WHISPERS") for classic Ethereal / Post folk sonogs.

In total, the album includes 10 unreleased tracks composed by mastermind Riccardo Prencipe plus a cover of the band Alcest ("Souvenirs d'un autre monde") and one solo guitar song (Satie's "Gnossienne" n. 1).

Also ‘Cries and Whispers’ features a number of guest musicians from bands such as IRFAN, SPIRITUAL FRONT, members of ASHRAM and acclaimed Italian actress Maddalena Crippa.

“In the 90s, when I was 18, in addition to my first band Lupercalia, I played in another extreme metal band. However, at the time I found our sound a bit outdated and abandoned it, but I never stopped listening to it. For years I had dreamed of returning to my origins, but in a different, less conventional way, taking advantage of twenty years of record production experience, and so I wrote an album divided into two volumes, apparently very different, using:

for VOL.1 the electric guitar (with a sound that fuses post rock with death- and black metal
style riffs)

for VOL. 2 the classical guitar (using the technique I learned during my exams at the con-
servatory). These two sounds have always coexisted within me.”

Tracks “Vol.1 – Cries”:

01 The Nightingale and the Rose 

02 Leaver 

03 John Ruskin 

04 The Father Child 

05 A Step to lose the Balance 

06 Christmas Carol

Tracks Vol.2 “Whispers”:

07 Bruegel's Dance 

08 Eleusa Consumpta 

09 Souvenirs d'un autre Monde 

10 Tango di Gaeta 

11 Selfish Giant 

12 Gnossienne n. 1

All the sounds, voices and musical instruments that you can hear on this album have been performed, played, sung and recorded by real musicians and voices. Corde Oblique did not use any midi, samplers or sequences, apart from the good old metronome.

Album pictures by Hardijanto Budiman (Multiple awards winning photographer from Indonesia)

Corde Oblique is:

Riccardo Prencipe (classic guitar, acustic guitar, electric guitar)

with

Rita Saviano (voice on tracks 01, 02, 03, 09, 11)

Caterina Pontrandolfo (voice on track 04)

Denitza Seraphim (voice on track 02)

Simone Salvatori (backvoice on track 09)

Maddalena Crippa (spoken voice on track 13)

Edo Notarloberti (violin)

Alessio Sica (drums)

Umberto Lepore (bass, double bass)

Luigi Rubino (piano)

Michele Maione (percussions)

Salvio Vassallo (analogue synths)

Daniele la Torre (mandolin, mandola)