Solefald Complete Recording And Mixing

Norway's SOLEFALD have completed recording and mixing their fourth full-length album, In Harmonia Universali, tentatively scheduled for a Spring, 2003 release.

"We just finished recording and mixing the album, and I must say that SOLEFALD has never sounded better!" states Lazare Nedland, SOLEFALD's keyboardist and drummer (who also plays keyboards for Norway's BORKNAGAR). "I am in the process of mastering it in Oslo this week, so very soon we will have more than an hour of music just aching to be released to you people. In Harmonia Universali is certainly more experimental than 2001's Pills Against The Ageless Ills, but I think the whole sound and production of the album makes it feel more straight forward than it really is," Lazare continued. "The album will consist of 10 songs, and the vocal arrangements are larger and more complex this time around. We brought along a male choir and a saxophone player in the studio, and that worked out perfectly. I didn't use synths as much as I usually do in the recording process - instead you will hear a lot of real Hammond organs (with a wooden Leslie case) and a Steinway grand piano. Damn, I love those instruments!"

With regards to the album's multi-lingual approach and cover, Lazare wrote: "Yes, 'Fraternité' is a song in French, and 'Sonnenuntergang' is a song in German (it's not an instrumental - we actually sing in German). Cornelius wrote the lyrics for these ones. 'Nutrisco' is in Norwegian although the title is in Latin. There are several songs on this album that are 7-8 minutes long. The cover will be a fantastic oil painting - Just wait and see."

The complete track listing for In Harmonia Universali is: "Nutrisco et Extinguo," "Mont Blanc Providence Crow," "Christiania (E. Munch Commemoration)," "Epictetus & Irreversibility," "Dionysify This Night of Spring," "Red Music Diabolos," "Buy My Sperm," "Fraternité de la Grande Lumière," "The Liberation of Destiny," and "Sonnenuntergang Im Weltraum."

Source: Century Media