Electric Mirror by The Halo Trees
Half a year after the release of their latest album "Where The Deep Ends", the Berlin-based dark indie rock band The Halo Trees announces their next release. To coincide with their European tour as support for Front Line Assembly, the band is releasing an album with electronic remakes of their songs - a kind of alternative path parallel to their rock releases.
"Electric Mirror", the title of the upcoming album, is not a classic remix album, but was produced entirely by the band themselves. All songs that are known as rock versions from the formation's previous albums have been given new electronic arrangements, remodeled and with re-recorded vocals from singer Sascha Blach, presenting a completely new facet of
the band's sound.
The album's musical spectrum ranges from clubby, driving numbers to quiet, ambient tracks that sound spherical, wide and weightless. There are always interesting sound experiment in the songs - and not everything is purely electronic. The band's new violinist, Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, ran his violin through endless effect chains for various songs to transform its sound into spacey soundscapes that sound truly timeless. Guitar textures and percussion were also recorded to refine the new song versions dominated by synths and drum machines.
Sascha is also accompanied by three guests on the microphone. A new version of "Cardboard Cities" was recorded with the Berlin choir Stimmgewalt, in which Sascha and the choir embark on a powerful duet that gives you goosebumps. In the super-melancholic "In This House Of Sadness", Behind Your Fear singer Stefanie Duchêne can be heard as a
guest singer, who some may still know as the singer of Flowing Tears. In "Time And Tide Wait For No Man", however, things get clubbier and harder and Sascha delivers a striking duet with Die Kammer frontman Marcus Testory.
Tracklist
Credits
Songs & lyrics written by Sascha Blach
Except „Colorblind“ written by Adam Duritz and Charlie Gillingham (Counting Crows)
Album recorded, mixed and mastered by Sascha Blach
at Winter Solitude Studio Berlin 2023 - 2024
All songs were completely rearranged and all vocals and instruments were re-recorded for this album
Additional vocals for "Time And Tide Wait For No Man" recorded by Marcus Testory (Die Kammer)
Additional vocals for "This House Of Sadness" recorded by Stefanie Duchêne (Behind Your Fear)
Additional voices for "Cardboard Cities" arranged by Anne Gropler, sung by Stimmgewalt,
engineered and edited by Sascha Blach
Visuals created by Sascha Blach
Dark Clouds Over London, Cardboard Cities, Bringing Light Into The Room, Invisible, Happy Man, Slowdown, This House Of Sadness, Stray(nger) & Apocalypse Somersaults published by 777songs/Schubert Music Publishing GmbH
Colorblind published by Jones Falls Music/Universal/MCA Music Publishing GmbH
Released by COP International
Line-up:
Sascha Blach - Stefan Helwig - Gabriel Wohlfahrt - Georges-Emmanuel Schneider
Copyright © COP International & The Halo Trees 2024
License
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The Halo Trees, that’s deep, melancholic music with plenty of room for the voice and handmade instrumentation. A comforting sound universe, inspired by David Bowie, Editors, Mark Lanegan, The National or Nick Cave. A mixture of indie-rock, pop, wave and post-rock with many tom-toms, melodic basslines, atmospheric guitars, catchy violin and sonorous, warm vocals.