Big Big Train: annunciato il nuovo album “Woodcut”, online il primo singolo “The Artist”
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I BIG BIG TRAIN, pluripremiata band internazionale progressive rock, pubblicheranno il loro sedicesimo album “Woodcut” il prossimo 6 febbraio, su Inside Out Music. “Woodcut” è una pietra miliare per il gruppo internazionale, la cui formazione riunisce membri provenienti da Inghilterra, Scozia, Italia, Stati Uniti, Svezia e Norvegia, in quanto segna il primo concept album, un risultato notevole data la profondità musicale e le qualità narrative della band. L’album è una narrazione continua che esplora la creatività, il sacrificio e la sottile linea di demarcazione tra ispirazione e follia.
Disponibile il primo singolo estratto, “The Artist”, accompagnato da uno splendido video creato da Crystal Spotlight:
Il commento del bassista Gregory Spawton:
“Woodcut racconta la storia di un personaggio che chiamiamo L’Artista, alle prese con la sua creatività e con la vita. Un giorno riesce a realizzare un’incisione su legno che considera bella e diversa dalle altre. Forse è un sogno o forse è la vita reale, ma si ritrova catapultato nella scena dell’incisione e in un mondo alternativo”.
L’album è disponibile in edizione limitata CD + Blu-ray, con note di copertina dettagliate e mix Dolby Atmos e 5.1 Surround Sound realizzato da Shawn Dealey degli Sweetwater Studios, oltre che in una splendida versione Gatefold 180g 2LP con copertina speciale in rilievo, Jewelcase CD standard e in digitale sia stereo che Dolby Atmos. “Woodcut” è disponibile a questo link: https://bigbigtrain.lnk.to/
Di seguito la tracklist dell’album:
1. Inkwell Black 00:56
2. The Artist 07:16
3. The Lie of the Land 02:55
4. The Sharpest Blade 04:16
5. Albion Press 05:46
6. Arcadia 05:46
7. Second Press 00:37
8. Warp and Weft 03:45
9. Chimaera 05:37
10. Dead Point 05:28
11. Light Without Heat 03:22
12. Dreams in Black and White 02:34
13. Cut and Run 06:19
14. Hawthorn White 01:54
15. Counting Stars 05:40
16. Last Stand 03:34
‘Woodcut’ sees all seven band members making stunning contributions, with frontman Alberto Bravin taking the lead as producer: “This time it’s kind of a new statement for the band. ‘Woodcut’ is a big step forward for us,” Bravin comments. With more than 400 individual recorded tracks of music to edit, streamline and piece together, and also with the connectivity of the album’s storyline and its themed instrumental sections to consider, this was a task of gargantuan proportions.
“I felt a huge sense of relief when Alberto took over as producer,” says Spawton, the band’s final original co-founding member. “Although this is only Alberto’s second studio album with BBT, he is very aware of the traditions of the band and has also brought his own sense of energy to the music.”
‘Woodcut’ feels like a Big Big Train record quite unlike any that came before—an assured union of music, storytelling and visual invention. The album is graced with a striking cover design from Dorset (England) based artist Robin Mackenzie – a black and white woodcut print, of course, derived from a woodcut which the band commissioned from him specifically for the album.
Featuring 16 tracks across 66-minutes of runtime, ‘Woodcut’ feels epic without outstaying its welcome. From the intimacy of ‘Inkwell Black’ to the grandeur of ‘Counting Stars’, ‘Woodcut’ is a defiant analogue statement in a digital age—a handcrafted, deeply human exploration of art, faith and endurance.
BIG BIG TRAIN is:
ALBERTO BRAVIN – Lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
NICK D’VIRGILIO – Drums, percussion, 12-string acoustic guitar, vocals
OSKAR HOLLDORFF – Keyboards, vocals
CLARE LINDLEY – Violin, acoustic guitar, vocals
PAUL MITCHELL – Trumpet, piccolo trumpet, vocals
RIKARD SJÖBLOM – Guitars, keyboards, vocals
GREGORY SPAWTON – Bass, bass pedals, 12-string acoustic guitar, Mellotron, vocals
BIG BIG TRAIN Online:
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