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 However, at the time I found our sound a bit outdated and abandoned it, but I never stopped listening to it.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 conservatory). These two sounds have always coexisted within me.”
Released February 2025 on The Stones of Naples.
Track Listing “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
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
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