Leírás
Progresszív Rock, 2023.
Limitált gatefold ORANGE LP kiadvány!
AVKRVST was founded by Martin Utby and Simon Bergseth – two musicians and friends who grew up together and made a pact that they would form a band when they got older.
Now, 22 years later, an album is ready: 49 minutes of music inspired by everything they grew up listening to – everything from Mew, Anekdoten and Porcupine Tree to Opeth, Neal Morse and King Crimson.
The Approbation is a concept album about a bleak soul who is left solely with his thoughts, isolated on a cabin deep into the dark forests, far away from civilization.
The album takes the listener through the thoughts of a man struggling towards the acceptance of death, being hauled into the abyss. Sonically, ‘The Approbation’ is a massive sounding piece of music: It’s everything from lush, melancholy moods to heavy, more aggressive atmospheres.
It tries to capture the feeling of a cold, gloomy fall – a dark sky, filled with gazing stars above the mist.
The whole album was written and recorded at a cabin in Alvdal (Norway) during a rainy, cold fall and winter. Throughout the album you can catch the sounds of rain and a trains horn from far away, which are actual sounds recorded outside the cabin at night under the stars.
Felvételek:
1. Osterdalen
2. The Pale Moon
3. Isolation
4. The Great White River
5. Arcane Clouds
6. Anodyne
7. The Approbation
