Isgaard - Whiteout '2016

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Whiteout. When sky and snow-covered land merge at the horizon and you
can‘t see anymore where the land ends and the sky begins. Or you are lost
in a dense fog that removes all contours and hides all shapes around.

This describes the feelings of Isgaard over the past two and a half years since
her last album ”NAKED“, when she faced the chaos of our present
time.Then what makes more sense for a singer than to translate these feelings
into music?

Together with her life-partner, producer and co-musician Jens Lueck, Isgaard has
written 13 pieces of music that never compromise the compositions or the lyrics.

Somewhere between Art-Pop-elements, folk-inspired acoustic parts, Rock-fragments
and string-orchestra based sections, you will find Isgaard‘ s versatile
voice flying through the songs and merging all to a style of her own. Sometimes
fragile and tender, then powerful, she covers a wide range of sounds and in the
song ”Tikdabra“ (inspired by Alberto Vázquez Figueroa‘s
novel ”Tuareg“) she dives into the ethno-segment.

The arrangement of the pieces give a wide richness of detail and an invitation
to careful listening. Among several other studio-musicians producer Jens Lueck
plays drums and keyboards and sings backing vocals and in order to search for a
warm sound, many real strings have been recorded.

The center of the album is the three-part title-track „Whiteout“
(13min34), that tells the story of a young woman who starts reading a book that
seems to describe her present life. As she reads on, reality fades out and the
things that she was thinking of as an integral part of her life then disappear.
In a wider sense the WHITEOUT in a human life.

”You didn‘t fall“ is a bow to women like the Pakistani Malala
Yousafzai, who stand up for the rights and education of girls in
fundamentalist-islamic countries despite all threats and reprisals.

Another important role in the lyrics is the influence of art in our lives and
the nature as a place of refuge and a haven of peace in a world that is at a
crossroads.

Isgaard, lead vocals, backing vocals
Jens Lueck, drums, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
Ingo Salzmann, guitar
Katja Flintsch, violin, viola
Annika Stolze, cello
Dieter Koch, acoustic-Guitar
Volker Kuinke, recorder
Joachim Schlüter, slide-Guitar

01. Isgaard - Prologue (3:25)
02. Isgaard - No Mans Land (5:45)
03. Isgaard - Shine On (4:51)
04. Isgaard - You Didnt Fall (4:31)
05. Isgaard - Silent Stranger (4:21)
06. Isgaard - Tikdabra (5:35)
07. Isgaard - Silva (4:29)
08. Isgaard - Fly Away (5:29)
09. Isgaard - Into The Great Wide Open (4:09)
10. Isgaard - Whiteout Part 1 The Book (4:04)
11. Isgaard - Whiteout Part 2 Shifting World (4:28)
12. Isgaard - Whiteout Part 3 Whiteout (5:01)
13. Isgaard - Shine On (Reprise) (1:15)

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