Search For The Vanished Heaven

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2017-07

Label: Eiderdown Records

David Colohan - EMS VCS3 & Synthi A, Farfisa Compact Duo, Moog System 55, Roland Juno-60, Korg MS-20 Mini, Korg MicroKorg, Casio MT-400V, Casio CA-110, Hohner Organetta, modular synthesizer, electric guitar, mandocello, autoharp, piano, strohviol, pump organ, drum, gong, cymbal, bullroarer, voice, lyre, low whistle, santoor, Appalachian & hammered dulcimers, accordian, low whistle, field recordings, no-input four track, tuned percussion & sampled Mellotron, Birotron, EKO ComputeRhythm & Univox Rhythmer

Richard Moult - voice & the turning of eternal wheels

Alison O'Donnell - voice & illumination

Guenter Schlienz - modular synthesizer

Gary Morrison - Korg MS-20, MiniBrute, Moog Little Phatty & modular synthesizer

Dom Cooper - Korg ElecTribe EM-1, Virtual Moog & Make Noise Shared System

Declan Kelly - banjo, harmonium, piano & accordian

Ulrich Rois - Roland VK7 & Korg Monotribe

Matt Leivers - soprano saxophone & field recordings

Jez Creek - EMS VCS3 & Virtual ANS

Barry Synnott - modular synthesizer

John Cavanagh - EMS VCS3

Bart De Paepe - Korg MS-20

Enda Trautt - drums

All words & music by Raising Holy Sparks, except for the spoken sections, which are taken from the writings of Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 - 15 December 1947)

Recorded variously across Europe Endless in Ballymahon, Drumnadubber, Dublin, Galway, Ballinteskin, Stuttgart, Milan, Ravenna, Vienna, Glasgow, Avebury, West Kennet Long Barrow, Manton Down Long Barrow, Isle of Harris, Stonehenge, The Paps of Jura, Lovosice, Brussels, Parkstone, Rijeka, Copenhagen, Nottingham, Lausanne, Melksham, Watford, Shoreditch, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Bratislava, somewhere in France & somewhere in Romania, Copenhagen, Stamford Hill, Helsinki, Berlin, Gracinica, Sønderho, Budapest, Stekene & Istanbul..

The Search began sometime in 2012 & was completed Under The Light Of A SuperMoon in November 2016, if such a search can ever truly be completed...

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