White-Out Conditions
| White-Out Conditions | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1987 (Norway, EU) May 5, 1993 (US/CAN) | |||
| Genre | Dream pop, synth-pop, new age | |||
| Length | 38:19 | |||
| Label | Crammed Discs Belgium Nettwerk/EMI Records Canada United States 0670 0 30030 2 5 W2-30030 | |||
| Producer | Gilles Martin | |||
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| Allmusic | StarStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[1] |
White-Out Conditions is the first album by the Norwegian band Bel Canto.
Critical reception
[edit | edit source]The album was critically acclaimed and noted for the band's exotic arctic sound, a reviewer in Melody Maker writing:
"They are very much the product of their environment. Their music is produced by synthesizers and computers. It's a celebration of the archaic, natural order through the use and abuse of modern technology. Notes fall in flurries and sudden, sharp showers, a flute whistles in furious competition with the wind, there's the tinkling of iron bells, the tapping of woodblocks and distant rumblings. Kloeberdanz and Upland are enticingly pure, the former an instrumental, the latter with Anneli's voice wrapped in the rise and rise of quasi-classical motions. It's given a similar treatment elsewhere, but in the title track it's less fragile, calling for the relief of darkness, for moonlight and the accompanying roses and love, yet only finding footprints in the snow. With Baltic Ice-Breaker she scratches, screams and whines as nature again triumphs over man. With Capio it sounds like a celestial choir, as though a host of Ibsen's ghosts are in the machine. "W-O. C." is not the stuff of movies and dreams. It's a direct translation of a daily reality. A frozen exotica."[2]
Track listing
[edit | edit source]- "Blank Sheets" – 4:15
- "Dreaming Girl" – 3:05
- "Without You" – 4:04
- "Capio" – 2:23
- "Agassiz" – 3:53
- "Kloeberdanz" – 3:02
- "White-Out Conditions" – 4:10
- "Baltic Ice-Breaker" – 4:45
- "Upland" – 7:02
- "Chaideinoi" – 3:29 [3]
Single
[edit | edit source]- "Blank Sheets" – 3:40
- "Chaideino" - 3:25
Musicians
[edit | edit source]- Anneli Drecker - vocals, synthesizer
- Nils Johansen - mandolin, flute, bass, synthesizer, programming
- Geir Jenssen - synthesizer, programming
Also credited:
- Marc Hollander - woodwinds
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Allmusic review
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- ^ Sometimes misspelled "Chadeinoi" or "Chaidenoi" on several CD covers, the track "Chaideinoi" appeared for the first time on the 1988 CD re-issue
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