About the Track
- Added on 1 July 2017
- Description
On «Touchstone», two musical worlds blend almost seamlessly: The fourpiece metal band The Burden Remains, and the 42-piece Ad-hoc-orchestra The Horns of the Seventh Seal, led by Manfred Jungo – For two years had been working on a 60-minute conceptual album, until it finally came to the stage in September 2016, for two exclusive and never to be repeated-shows. Post-Metal-like walls of sound without musical limits amalgamate with intricate horn sections and percussion, to form new depth structures. This foundation also forms the sonic grounds for a lyrical parable involving the mythical king Midas, whose fate is being depicted as an allegory for the touchstone of the modern society – The unquestionable and boundless consumption, the unsatiable greed of an unhibited materialistic world, whose longing for purpose remains unanswered. This monumental encounter had to be captured in appropriate auditory form: The full work got recorded under Christoph Noths’ supervision, and sonically refined by Raphaël Bovey.
- Album Touchstone
- Year of creation 2017
- Label Cold Smoke Records
- Director Silvan Mangold
- 82 plays
Credits
Filmed at Fri-Son/Fribourg on September 17th & 18th, 2016 | Production and cut: Silvan Mangold | Camera: Al Spicher, Stefan Schweingruber, Philipp Aebischer | Light show: Patrick Häberli | Live visuals: Luis Sanz | Sound: Raphaël Bovey
Touchstone released on June 16th, 2017
Music and lyrics written and performed by The Burden Remains
Orchestra compositions written by Manfred Jungo
Orchestra conducted by Manfred Jungo
Orchestra recorded by Christoph Noth at Fri-Son / Fribourg, September 2016
Drums recorded by Christoph Noth at Studio de la Fonderie / Fribourg, September 2016
Guitars, Bass and Vocals recorded at The Burden Remains’ Rehearsal Room / Wünnewil, October and November 2016
Reamping by Christoph Noth, Thomas Jenny and Tommy Schweizer at Studio de la Fonderie / Fribourg, November 2016
Aditionnal overdubs by Christoph Noth, Thomas Jenny, Silvan Mangold and Raphaël Bovey
Mixed and mastered by Raphaël Bovey at MyRoom Studio / Lausanne, December 2016 to April 2017
Cover artwork created by Philipp fp Aebischer and Thomas Jenny
Graphic design by Adrien Bachmann
Live-photograph taken by Alex Annen / Katharact’s Pix
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