{"id":2815,"date":"2015-09-03T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?page_id=2815"},"modified":"2020-11-25T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T02:48:05","slug":"btv104-kloster-half-dream-half-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?page_id=2815","title":{"rendered":"BTV104 Kloster : Half Dream, Half Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"klostercoversmall\"<\/a><\/td>\nKloster
\n“Half Dream, Half Epiphany” (btv104) cd\/cass
\nBuy cd Online<\/a>
\nBuy cassette Online<\/a>
\nTrack listing:
\n2. Benjamin\u2019s Song (3:42)
\n3. Shepherd Song (3:48)
\n4. I Burned the Blueprints (4:40)
\n5. Time Spent With You Is Time Well Spent (6:07)
\n6. Half Dream, Half Epiphany (4:10)
\n7. Take the Driver\u2019s Seat (4:06)
\n8. Clad and Closed (1:37)
\n9. Be Still, My Soul (10:04)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
After two conceptual albums dealing with medieval mystics and ancient Danish hymns, which resulted in bookings at the Roskilde Festival and 5 stars reviews in major Danish national papers and magazines, Kloster is now returning with the album Half Dream, Half Epiphany which might be their most ambitious work so far.
\nMusically (as with previous Kloster albums) Half Dream, Half Epiphany is still based upon a dark, but hopeful pastoral folk centered around Mikael R Andreasen’s fragile voice and vocally supported by Solrun Stig from Norway and Sarah Hepburn from the US who both have been an integral part of the Kloster project since its inception in 2001. In contrast to earlier releases, this new album offers more electric guitars and various kinds of drums and percussion to support an insisting, varied, and detailed soundscape created by the help from Jakob Brixen (Hymns from Nineveh \/ Mechanical Bird), Manoj Ramdas (The Good, The Bad \/ Spektr), Mikkel Elzer (Blood on a Feather), Jonas Munk og Jakob Sk\u00f8tt (Causa Sui), David Blomqvist (Blomqvist), Magnus Maimonide, and seven other supporting musicians.
\nAlthough not necessarily or far from audible in the actual music, Kloster\u2019s main musical influences would be the Danielson Famile, Current 93, Mount Eerie, Arvo P\u00e4rt, Bardo Pond, and Popol Vuh.
\nAs usual, Kloster\u2019s songs are based around song writer Mikael R Andreasen’s own faith and doubt, but unlike previous albums, Half Dream, Half Epiphany is primarily intended to be a political album.
\nMikael R Andreasen explains: \u201dI have become more and more political throughout the years. Politics is foremost a matter of power, but here in Denmark I don’t think it matters so much order accutane<\/a> whatever government we have. What would matter, however, would be if we started to consider each other and the aspect of power in a new light, and in that aspect I think spirituality, among other things, has something useful to offer – the belief that every person possesses infinite value, where you serve one another intimately, and where you gracefully rest knowing that you have enough. Imagine what a difference it would make, if politicians, and you and me, began to realize and live by the fact that to lead means to serve! It is within and among those thoughts and conversations with other people about issues of power that these new songs has come to life, and that is in my mind very political.\u201d
\nHalf Dream, Half Epiphany is produced by Mikael R Andreasen and mixed by Jonas Munk (Causa Sui Manual). The album will be released digitally and on vinyl by the Target Group in Denmark and in North America on cd and cassette by Burnt Toast Vinyl.
\nDuring the last many years Kloster has been playing a great numbers of shows in various settings ranging from big festivals like Roskilde Festival outside Copenhagen to tiny festivals like Fan\u00f8 Free Folk Festival located on the small beautiful island of Fan\u00f8 in the Atlantic Ocean as well as shows in unusual places like a grotto north of the Arctic circle, an old theatre in London, a church on the Faroe Island, a Norwegian forest, and numerous other exquisite places.
\nAbout Kloster\u2019s Ni salmer og en aftensang
\n“Kloster demonstrates an incomparable flair for combining medieval-sounding folk songs with an endless presence, intimacy, and dark melancholia wrapped around equal parts pessimism, despair, faith, and hope.” \u2014 Gaffa magazine 5\/6
\n“Kloster has almost created a masterpiece.” \u2014 Undertoner 5\/6
\nAbout Kloster\u2019s The Waves and Winds Still Know His Voice “Hauntingly beautiful Danish neo-folk” \u2014 Gaffa magazine 5\/6
\n“I’m impressed.” \u2014 Undertoner 6\/6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kloster “Half Dream, Half Epiphany” (btv104) cd\/cass Buy cd Online Buy cassette Online Track listing: 2. Benjamin\u2019s Song (3:42) 3. Shepherd Song (3:48) 4. I Burned the Blueprints (4:40) 5. Time Spent With You Is Time Well Spent (6:07) 6. Half Dream, Half Epiphany (4:10) 7. Take the Driver\u2019s Seat (4:06) 8. Clad and Closed (1:37) 9. Be Still, My Soul (10:04) After two conceptual albums dealing with medieval mystics and ancient Danish hymns, which resulted in bookings at the Roskilde Festival and 5 stars reviews in major Danish national papers and magazines, Kloster is now returning with the album Half Dream, Half Epiphany which might be their most ambitious work so far. Musically (as with previous Kloster albums) Half Dream, Half Epiphany is still based upon a dark, but hopeful pastoral folk centered around Mikael R Andreasen’s fragile voice and vocally supported by Solrun Stig from Norway and Sarah Hepburn from the US who both have been an integral part of the Kloster project since its inception in 2001. In contrast to earlier releases, this new album offers more electric guitars and various kinds of drums and percussion to support an insisting, varied, and detailed soundscape created by the…Continue readingBTV104 Kloster : Half Dream, Half Epiphany<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2707,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3893,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2815\/revisions\/3893"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}